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LAS CRUCES >> A handful of Las Crucens gathered downtown, outside Southwest Counseling Center, on Monday morning to protest the state's freezing of Medicaid money to several prominent mental health care providers in the wake of a state-ordered audit that alleges overbilling and possible fraud - one woman's sign drawing the attention of Gov. Susana Martinez.
Inside Southwest Counseling Center on Monday afternoon, board members met to discuss the 50-year-old agency's future, thrust into uncertainty in recent weeks because the Medicaid money is essential for such nonprofits to function. Among the 15 agencies is Border Area Mental Health Services in Reserve in Catron County, near Silver City.
Roque Garcia, Southwest Counseling Center's CEO, declined to divulge in more detail what was discussed at Monday's meeting. He is scheduled to meet with state Human Services Department officials today.
Meanwhile, the Arizona-based agency set to take over the care of Southwest Counseling Center's patients - the Las Cruces agency serves about 3,000 mentally ill people per year - is working through the transition, HSD spokesman Matt Kennicott said.
The state recently sent Southwest Counseling Center a check to cover payroll through Saturday, Kennicott said, and La Frontera, of Tucson, Ariz., will take over Sunday.
HSD does not expect any Southwest Counseling Center's patients to lose services during the transition.
"The clinical relationship will not change - at most a consumer will maybe need to go to a new location in town to receive their services, but we are even trying to minimize that potential impact," wrote Kennicott in an email to the Sun-News.
He added that if somebody does lose services "we need to know about it immediately."
That is the concern for Melody Burns and Aletta Wilson, two of Monday's protesters. They are members at First Christian Church. During a recent service, Burns said, other church members said they would be losing their mental health services provided by Southwest Counseling Center.
Garcia said some people that have accessed psychiatric services through Southwest Counseling Center may be left out. That's because, Garcia explained, the state had cut some of those services in January, but Southwest Counseling Center had been paying for it "because it's absolutely needed," he said.
Burns attended an unrelated award ceremony Monday about a block from Southwest Counseling Center mostly so she could express her pointed displeasure to Gov. Martinez.
During the ceremony, Burns held a sign that read, "Are you crazy? We must fund our mental health services."
After the ceremony, as Burns looked for City Councilor Miguel Silva, the governor approached her to discuss the issue, a move that caught Burns by surprise.
Martinez told Burns it was not her intention to close mental health facilities or fire any counselors. The governor added that officials thought the problems existed at management levels, Burns said.
That chat gave Burns tempered hope, she said.
"I told her I hope she was telling the truth and I would wait and see," Burns said of her conversation with Martinez. "I want to see the results." Burns' outlook serves as a contrast to that of Garcia.
"Hope is dimming," he said, referring to a federal court injunction that Southwest Counseling Center and other agencies had hoped would restore Medicaid funding while the New Mexico Attorney General's Office investigated the alleged wrongdoing.
As of Monday afternoon, Chief U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo had not ruled in the matter. After a hearing last week, she said the case was too complex for a quick ruling.
Eight of the agencies named in the controversial audit have alleged that Martinez's HSD secretary, Sidonie Squier, violated their civil rights by branding them criminals and not allowing them to respond or know the details of the audit's findings before freezing the Medicaid funding.
TeamBuilders Inc., another audited mental health agency with a Doña Ana County presence, also faces a transition, CEO Shannon Freedle said Monday, but it's not as immediate as that of Southwest Counseling Center. He said TeamBuilders could sustain payroll for about a month. Friday he sent a 30-day notice out regarding the matter. Freedle added that he's hoping for greater communication from the state and OptumHealth, which oversees the audited agencies.
Kennicott said HSD officials still need to meet with TeamBuilders, Inc.and other providers.
Citing numerous sources, New Mexico In Depth reported that state officials weren't required to freeze the funding.
In response to that, Kennicott sent out this statement from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid spokesman, Brian Cook: "Based on information currently available, CMS believes HSD acted in accordance with federal regulation and CMS guidance in imposing the temporary payment suspension."
James Staley can be reached at 575-541-5476.


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The French Wars of Religion (1562–98) is the name given to a period of civil infighting and military operations, primarily fought between French Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots). The conflict involved the factional disputes between the aristocratic houses of France, such as the House of Bourbon and House of Guise (Lorraine), and both sides received assistance from foreign sources.
The exact number of wars and their respective dates are the subject of continued debate by historians; some assert that the Edict of Nantes in 1598 concludes the wars, although a resurgence of rebellious activity following this leads some to believe the Peace of Alais in 1629 is the actual conclusion. However, the Massacre of Vassy in 1562 is agreed to begin the Wars of Religion and the Edict of Nantes at least ended this series of conflicts. During this time, complex diplomatic negotiations and agreements of peace were followed by renewed conflict and power struggles.
At the conclusion of the conflict in 1598, Huguenots were granted substantial rights and freedoms by the Edict of Nantes, though it did not end hostility towards them. The wars weakened the authority of the monarchy, already fragile under the rule of Francis II and then Charles IX, though it later reaffirmed its role under Henry IV.
Protestant ideas were first introduced to France during the reign of Francis I (1515–47) in the form of Lutheranism, the teachings of Martin Luther, and circulated unimpeded for more than a year around Paris. Although Francis firmly opposed heresy, the difficulty was initially in recognising what constituted it; Catholic doctrine and definition of orthodox belief was unclear.[1] Despite this, it was observed in January 1535 that all "Lutherans" in France were actually Zwinglians, followers of Huldrych Zwingli.[2]
The Affair of the Placards in 1534, in which anti-Catholic posters appeared in public, turned Protestantism into "a religion of rebels", helping define heresy, and the attitude of the French monarchy hardened in the wake of the incident.[2][3] John Calvin, a Frenchman, escaped from the persecution to Basle, where he published the Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.[4] In the same year, he visited Geneva, but was forced out for trying to reform the church. When he returned on invitation in 1541, he wrote the Ecclesiastical ordinances, the constitution for a Genevan church, which was passed by the council of Geneva.
The Massacre of Mérindol took place in 1545, when Francis I of France ordered the Waldensians of the city of Mérindol, who were afiliated to Protestantism, to be punished for dissident religious activities.
In the 1550s, Geneva played an important role in influencing the disorganised French Calvinist (Huguenot) church.[5] The 1540s had seen an intensification in the fight against heresy,[6] which meant Protestants gathered in secret to worship.[7] However, by the middle of the century, the Huguenot population expanded greatly, as the nobility in particular were converted to Calvinism; it is estimated that over half of the nobility were Calvinist in the 1560s, and that there were between 1,200–1,250 Calvinist churches and 2 million Calvinists at the outbreak of war in 1562.[8] Calvinism had proved attractive to people from across the social hierarchy and occupational divides, and was highly regionalized with no coherent pattern of geographical spread.
The accidental death of Henry II in 1559 created a political vacuum that encouraged the rise of factions, eager to grasp power for themselves. Francis II of France, at this point only 15 years old, was weak and lacked the qualities that allowed his predecessors to impose their will onto the leading noblemen at court. The House of Guise, having an advantage in the King's wife, Mary, Queen of Scots,[9] who was their niece, moved quickly to exploit the situation at the expense of their rivals, the House of Montmorency.[10] Within days of the King's accession, the English ambassador reported that "the house of Guise ruleth and doth all about the French King".
In March 1560 a group of disaffected nobles (led by Jean du Barry, seigneur de la Renaudie) attempted to abduct the young Francis II and eliminate the Guise faction. Their plans were discovered before they could succeed, and hundreds of plotters were executed.[11] The Guise brothers suspected Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé of leading the plot. He was arrested but eventually freed for lack of evidence, adding to the tensions of the period. (In the polemics that followed, the label "Huguenot" for France's Protestants came into widespread usage.[12])
The first instances of Protestant destruction of images and statues in Catholic churches occurred in Rouen and La Rochelle in 1560. The following year, these disturbances extended to over twenty cities and towns, and would, in turn, incite Catholic urban groups to bloody reprisals in Sens, Cahors, Carcassonne, Tours and other cities.[13]
In December 1560 Francis II died, and his mother Catherine de' Medici became regent for her second son, Charles IX. Inexperienced and faced with the legacy of debt from the Habsburg-Valois conflict, Catherine felt that she had to steer the throne carefully between the powerful and conflicting interests that surrounded it, embodied by the powerful aristocrats who led essentially private armies. Although she was a sincere Roman Catholic, she was prepared to deal favourably with the Huguenot House of Bourbon in order to have a counterweight against the overmighty Guise. She nominated a moderate chancellor, Michel de l'Hôpital, who urged a number of measures providing for civic peace so that a religious resolution could be sought by a sacred council[14].
This council of clergy was formed in 1561, during the Estates-General of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, when the national council of prelates accepted the crown's request for Huguenots to be given a hearing. The Protestants were represented by 12 ministers and 20 laymen, led by Théodore de Bèze. Neither party aimed at toleration, but at reaching some form of concord on which a new unity could be based. A meeting between Bèze and the Cardinal of Lorraine, of the House of Guise, seemed promising; both appeared ready to compromise on form. However, by the end of the Colloquy in October 1561 it was clear that the divide between Catholic and Protestant ideas was already too wide [15].
In early 1562, the regency government attempted to quell escalating disorder in the provinces, which had been only encouraged by factional feuds at court, by instituting the Edict of Saint-Germain, also known as the Edict of January. The legislation sought to give concessions to the Huguenots in order to avoid their rebellion, and allowed them to worship publicly outside of towns and privately inside of them. On March 1, however, a faction of the Guise family's retainers attacked a Calvinist service in Wassy-sur-Blaise in Champagne and massacred the worshippers. The Huguenot Jean de la Fontaine put it this way:
"The Protestants were engaged in prayer outside the walls, in conformity with the king's edict, when the Duke of Guise approached. Some of his suite insulted the worshippers, and from insults they proceeded to blows, and the Duke himself was accidentally wounded in the cheek. The sight of his blood enraged his followers, and a general massacre of the inhabitants of Vassy ensued."[16]
The Massacre of Vassy, as this became known, provoked open hostilities between the two religions. The Bourbons, led by the prince of Condé, and proclaiming that they were liberating the king and regent from "evil" councillors, organised a kind of protectorate over the Protestant churches and began to seize and garrison strategic towns along the Loire. Although the Huguenots had begun to mobilise for war before Vassy,[17] Condé used the massacre as evidence that the Edict had been broken, lending further weight to his campaign, and as hostilities broke out, the Edict was in fact revoked under pressure from the Guise faction.
The major engagements of the war occurred at Rouen, Dreux and Orléans. At the Siege of Rouen (May-October 1562), the crown regained the city at the cost of Antoine de Navarre, who died of his wounds. The Battle of Dreux (December 1562), saw the capture of Condé by the Guises and Montmorency, the governor general, by the Bourbons. In February 1563, at the Siege of Orléans, Francis, Duke of Guise was shot and killed by the Huguenot Poltrot de Méré; the Guise considered this an assassination on the orders of the duke's enemy, Admiral Coligny, as it was outside of direct combat. The popular unrest caused by the 'assassination', coupled with the fact that Orléans was holding out in the siege, led Catherine to mediate a truce and the Edict of Amboise (1563).
The Edict of Amboise was generally regarded as unsatisfactory by all concerned, the Guise faction being particularly opposed to what they saw as dangerous concessions to heretics. Nonetheless the crown looked to re-unite the two factions in its efforts to re-capture Le Havre which had been occupied by the English as part of the Treaty of Hampton Court between the Huguenot leaders and Elizabeth I. The English were successfully expelled that July and the next month Charles IX declared his legal majority, ending Catherine de' Medici's regency. His mother continued to play a principal role in politics, however, and she joined her son on a Grand Tour of the kingdom between 1564 and 1566, designed to reinstate crown authority.
Reports of iconoclasm in Flanders led Charles IX to lend support to the Catholics there, leading to fears among the French Huguenots of a Catholic re-mobilisation against them. Philip II of Spain's reinforcement of the strategic corridor from Italy north along the Rhine added to these fears and political discontent grew. Protestant troops then made an unsuccessful attempt to capture and take control of King Charles IX in the Surprise of Meaux, a number of cities, such as La Rochelle, declared themselves for the Huguenot cause and Catholics, both laymen and clergy, were massacred the following day in Nîmes in what became known as the Michelade.
This provoked the Second War, the main military engagement of which was the Battle of Saint-Denis where the crown's commander-in-chief and lieutenant general, the seventy-four year old Anne de Montmorency died. The war was brief, ending in another truce, the Peace of Longjumeau (March 1568), which granted significant religious freedoms and privileges to Protestants.
In reaction to the Peace, Catholic confraternities and leagues sprang up across the country in defiance of the law throughout the summer of 1568. Huguenot leaders such as Condé and Coligny fled court in fear of their lives, many of their followers were murdered, and in September the Edict of Saint-Maur revoked the Huguenots' freedom to worship. In November William of Orange led an army into France in order to support his fellow Protestants, but the army being poorly paid, he accepted the crown's offer of money and free passage to leave the country.
Nevertheless the Huguenots gathered together a formidable army under the command of Condé, aided by forces from south-east France, led by Paul de Mouvans, and a contingent of fellow Protestant militias from Germany — including 14,000 mercenary reiters led by the Calvinist Duke of Zweibrücken.[18] After the Duke was killed in action, his troops remained under the employ of the Huguenots who had raised a loan from England against the security of the queen of Navarre's crown jewels [19]. Much of the Huguenots' financing came from Queen Elizabeth of England, who was likely influenced in the matter by Sir Francis Walsingham.[18] The Catholics were commanded by the Duke d'Anjou (later King Henry III) and assisted by troops from Spain, the Papal States and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.[20]
The Protestant army laid siege to several cities in the Poitou and Saintonge regions (to protect La Rochelle), and then Angoulême and Cognac. At the Battle of Jarnac (16 March 1569), the prince of Condé was killed, forcing Admiral de Coligny to take command of the Protestant forces, nominally on behalf of Condé's 15 year old son, Henry, and the sixteen-year old Henry of Navarre, who were presented by Jeanne d'Albret as the legitimate leaders of the Huguenot cause against royal authority. The Battle of La Roche-l'Abeille was a nominal victory for the Huguenots, but they were unable to seize control of Poitiers and were soundly defeated at the Battle of Moncontour (October 30, 1569). Coligny and his troops retreated to the south-west and regrouped with Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, and in spring of 1570 they pillaged Toulouse, cut a path through the south of France and went up the Rhone valley up to La Charité-sur-Loire.[21] The staggering royal debt and Charles IX's desire to seek a peaceful solution[22] led to the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (8 August 1570), which once more allowed some concessions to the Huguenots.
Despite this shaky truce, anti-Protestant massacres of Huguenots at the hands of Catholic mobs continued, in cities such as Rouen, Orange and Paris. Matters at Court were further complicated as King Charles IX openly allied himself with the Huguenot leaders — especially Admiral Gaspard de Coligny. Meanwhile, the Queen Mother became increasingly fearful of the unchecked power wielded by Coligny and his supporters, especially once it became clear that Coligny was pursuing an alliance with England and the Dutch rebels.
Coligny, along with many other Calvinist nobles, arrived in Paris for the wedding of the Catholic Princess Marguerite de Valois to the Protestant Henry of Navarre on August 18. On August 22, an assassin made a failed attempt on Coligny's life, shooting him in the street from a window. While historians have suggested a likely identity for the assassin (Charles de Louvier, sieur de Maurevert), the source of the order to assassinate Coligny has never been determined (it is improbable that the order came from Catherine).[23]
Amidst fears of a Huguenot coup, the Duke of Guise and his supporters acted and, in the early morning of August 24, killed Coligny in his lodgings with several of his men. Coligny's body was thrown from the window into the street, and was subsequently mutilated, castrated, dragged through the mud, thrown in the river, suspended on a gallows and burned by the Parisian crowd.[24] For the next five days the city erupted into a full-scale massacre of Calvinist men, women and children, and the looting of their houses, which was neither approved of nor predicted by the king.[25] Over the next few weeks the disorder spread to more than a dozen cities across France. Perhaps 2,000 Huguenots were slaughtered in Paris and, in the days that followed, thousands more in the provinces; in all, perhaps 10,000 people were killed.[26] Henry of Navarre and his cousin, the young prince of Condé, managed to avoid death by agreeing to convert to Catholicism; both would repudiate their conversions once they managed to escape Paris.
The massacre provoked horror and outrage among Protestants throughout Europe, but both Philip II of Spain and Pope Gregory XIII, following the official version that a Huguenot coup had been barely thwarted, celebrated the outcome. In France, Huguenot opposition to the crown was left seriously weakened by the death of many of the leadership, and emigration and reconversion among the mass of Huguenots, who now concentrated in a small number of cities where they formed a majority.
The massacres set off further military action, which included Catholic sieges of the cities of Sommières (by troops led by Henri I de Montmorency), Sancerre and La Rochelle (by troops led by the duke of Anjou). The end of hostilities was brought on by the election (11–15 May 1573) of the Duke of Anjou to the throne of Poland and by the Edict of Boulogne (signed in July 1573) which severely curtailed many of the rights previously granted to French Protestants. Based on the terms of the treaty, all Huguenots were granted amnesty for their past actions and the freedom of belief. However, they were permitted the freedom to worship only within the three towns of La Rochelle, Montauban, and Nîmes, and even then only within their own residences; Protestant aristocrats with the right of high-justice were permitted to celebrate marriages and baptisms, but only before an assembly limited to ten persons outside of their family.[28]
In the absence of the duke of Anjou disputes between Charles and his youngest brother, the duke of Alençon, led to many Huguenots congregating around Alençon for patronage and support. A failed coup at Saint-Germain (February 1574), allegedly aiming to release Condé and Navarre who had been held at court since St Bartholemew's, coincided with rather successful Huguenot uprisings in other parts of France such as Lower Normandy, Poitou and the Rhône valley, which reinitiated hostilities.[29]
Three months after Henry of Anjou's coronation as King of Poland, his brother Charles IX died (May 1574) and his mother declared herself regent until his return. Henry secretly left Poland and returned via Venice to France, where he faced the defection of Montmorency-Damville, ex-commander in the Midi (November 1574). Despite having failed to have established his authority over the Midi, he was crowned King Henry III, at Rheims February 1575, marrying Louise Vaudémont, a kinswoman of the Guise, the following day. By April the crown was already seeking to negotiate [30], and the escape of Alençon from court in September prompted the possibility of an overwhelming coalition of forces against the crown, as John Casimir of the Palatinate invaded Champagne. The crown hastily negotiated a truce of seven months with Alençon and promised Casimir's forces 500,000 livres to stay east of the Rhine [31] but neither action secured a peace. By May 1576 the crown was forced to accept the terms of Alençon, and the Huguenots who supported him, in the Edict of Beaulieu, known as the Peace of Monsieur.
The Edict of Beaulieu granted many concessions to the Calvinists, but they were short-lived in the face of the Catholic League which the ultra-Catholic, Henry I, Duke of Guise, had formed in opposition to it. The House of Guise had long been identified with the defense of the Roman Catholic Church and the Duke of Guise and his relations — the Duke of Mayenne, Duke of Aumale, Duke of Elboeuf, Duke of Mercoeur and the Duke of Lorraine — controlled extensive territories that were loyal to the League. The League also had a large following among the urban middle class. The Estates-General of Blois (1576) failed to resolve matters, and by December the Huguenots had already taken up arms in Poitou and Guyenne. While the Guise faction had the unwavering support of the Spanish Crown, the Huguenots had the advantage of a strong power base in the southwest; they were also discreetly supported by foreign Protestant governments, but in practice, England or the German states could provide few troops in the ensuing conflict. After much posturing and negotiations, Henry III rescinded most of the concessions that had been made to the Protestants in the Edict of Beaulieu with the Treaty of Bergerac (September 1577), confirmed in the Edict of Poitiers passed six days later [32].
Despite according his brother the title of Duke of Anjou, the prince and his followers continued to create disorder at court through their involvement in the Dutch Revolt. Meanwhile the regional situation disintegrated into disorder as both Catholics and Protestants armed themselves in 'self defence'. In November 1579 Condé seized the town of La Fère leading to another round of military action which was brought to an end by the Treaty of Fleix (November 1580), negotiated by Anjou.
The fragile compromise came to an end in 1584, when the Duke of Anjou, the King's youngest brother and heir presumptive, died. As Henry III had no son, under Salic Law, the next heir to the throne was the Calvinist Prince Henri of Navarre, a descendant of Louis IX whom Pope Sixtus V had excommunicated along with his cousin, Henri Prince de Condé. When it became clear that Henri of Navarre would not rennounce his Protestantism the Duke of Guise signed the Treaty of Joinville (December 1584), on behalf of the League, with Philip II of Spain, who supplied a considerable annual grant to the League over the following decade to maintain the civil war in France, with the hope of destroying the French Calvinists. Under pressure from the Guise, Henri III reluctantly issued the Treaty of Nemours (July) and an Edict, suppressing Protestantism and annulling Henri of Navarre's right to the throne.
The King at first tried to co-opt the head of the Catholic League and steer it towards a negotiated settlement. This was anathema to the Guise leaders, who wanted to bankrupt the Huguenots and divide their considerable assets with the King. The situation degenerated into open warfare. Henry of Navarre again sought foreign aid from the German princes and Elizabeth I of England. Meanwhile, the solidly Catholic people of Paris, under the influence of the Committee of Sixteen were becoming dissatisfied with Henry III and his failure to defeat the Calvinists. On 12 May 1588, the Day of the Barricades, a popular uprising raised barricades on the streets of Paris to defend the Duke of Guise against the alleged hostility of the king, and Henry III fled the city. The Committee of Sixteen took complete control of the government, while the Guise protected the surrounding supply lines. The mediation of Catherine de'Medici led to the Edict of Union, in which the crown accepted almost all the League's demands; reaffirming the Treaty of Nemours, recognizing Cardinal de Bourbon as heir, and making the duke of Guise Lieutenant-General.
Refusing to return to Paris, Henry III called for an Estates-General at Blois in September of that year. During the Estates-General Henry suspected that the members of the third estate were being manipulated by the League and became convinced that Guise had encouraged the duke of Savoy's invasion of Saluzzo in October. Viewing the House of Guise as a dangerous threat to the power of the Crown, King Henri decided to strike first. On December 23, 1588, at the Château de Blois, Henry of Guise and his brother, the Cardinal de Guise, were lured into a trap by the King's guards. The Duke arrived in the council chamber where his brother the Cardinal waited. The Duke was told that the King wished to see him in the private room adjoining the royal chambers. There guardsmen seized the duke and stabbed him in the heart, while others arrested the Cardinal who later died on the pikes of his escort. To make sure that no contender for the French throne was free to act against him, the King had the Duke's son imprisoned. The Duke of Guise had been highly popular in France, and the Catholic League declared open war against King Henry. The Parlement of Paris instituted criminal charges against the King, who now joined forces with his cousin, the Huguenot, Henry of Navarre, to war against the League.
It thus fell upon the younger brother of the Guise, the Duke of Mayenne, to become the leader of the Catholic League. The League presses began printing anti-royalist tracts under a variety of pseudonyms, while the Sorbonne proclaimed that it was just and necessary to depose Henri III, and that any private citizen was morally free to commit regicide. In July 1589, in the royal camp at Saint-Cloud, a Dominican monk named Jacques Clément gained an audience with the King and drove a long knife into his spleen. Clément was killed on the spot, taking with him the information of who, if anyone, had hired him. On his deathbed, Henri III called for Henry of Navarre, and begged him, in the name of Statecraft, to become a Catholic, citing the brutal warfare that would ensue if he refused. In keeping with Salic Law, he named Henri as his heir.
The situation on the ground in 1589 was that the new Henry IV of France, as Navarre had become, held the south and west, and the Catholic League the north and east. The leadership of the Catholic League had devolved to the Duke de Mayenne, who was appointed Lieutenant-General of the kingdom. He and his troops controlled most of rural Normandy. However, in September 1589, Henry inflicted a severe defeat on the Duke at the Battle of Arques. Henry's army swept through Normandy, taking town after town throughout the winter.
The King knew that he had to take Paris if he stood any chance of ruling all of France. This, however, was no easy task. The Catholic League's presses and supporters continued to spread stories about atrocities committed against Catholic priests and the laity in Protestant England (see Forty Martyrs of England and Wales). The city prepared to fight to the death rather than accept a Calvinist king.
The Battle of Ivry, fought on March 14, 1590, was another decisive victory for Henry against forces led by the Duke of Mayenne. Henry's forces then went on to lay siege to Paris, but the siege was broken by Spanish support (under the command of the Duke of Parma), by the end of August; a situation which was repeated at the Siege of Rouen (November 1591-March 1592).
Meanwhile Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, whom Henry III had made governor of Brittany in 1582, was endeavouring to make himself independent in that province. A leader of the Catholic League, he invoked the hereditary rights of his wife, Marie de Luxembourg, who was a descendant of the dukes of Brittany and heiress of the Blois-Brosse claim to the duchy as well as Duchess of Penthievre in Brittany, and organized a government at Nantes. Proclaiming his son "prince and duke of Brittany", he allied with Philip II of Spain, who sought to place his own daughter, infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, on the throne of Brittany. With the aid of the Spanish, Mercoeur defeated Henry IV's forces under the Duke of Montpensier, at Craon in 1592, but the royal troops, reinforced by English contingents, soon recovered the advantage.
Despite the campaigns between 1590 and 1592, Henry IV was "no closer to capturing Paris" [33]. Realising that Henry III had been right and that there was no prospect of a Protestant king succeeding in resolutely Catholic Paris, Henry agreed to convert, reputedly stating "Paris vaut bien une messe" ("Paris is well worth a Mass"). He was formally received into the Catholic Church in 1593, and was crowned at Chartres in 1594 as League members maintained control of the Cathedral of Rheims, and, sceptical of Henry's sincerity, continued to oppose him. He was finally received into Paris in March 1594, and 120 League members in the city who refused to submit were banished from the capital[34]. Paris' capitulation encouraged the same of many other towns, while others returned to support the crown after Pope Clement VIII absolved Henry, revoking his excommunication in return for the publishing of the Tridentine Decrees, the restoration of Catholicism in Béarn, and appointing only Catholics to high office[34]. Evidently Henry's conversion worried Protestant nobles, many of whom had, until then, hoped to win not just concessions but a complete reformation of the French Church, and their acceptance of Henry was by no means a foregone conclusion.
By the end of 1594 certain League members were still working against him across the country, but all relied on the support of Spain. In January 1595, therefore, Henry declared war on Spain, in order to show Catholics, that Spain was using religion as a cover for an attack on the French state, and Protestants, that he had not become a puppet of Spain through his conversion, while hoping to take the war to Spain and make territorial gain [35]. The conflict mostly consisted of military action aimed at League members, such as the Battle of Fontaine-Française, though the Spanish launched a concerted offensive in the spring of 1596 capturing Calais and Ardes by April. Following the capture of Amiens in March 1597 the crown laid siege until its surrender in September. After the Siege of Amiens Henry's concerns turned to the situation in Brittany, the king sent Bellièvre and Brulart de Sillery to negotiate a peace with Spain. The war was only drawn to an official close, however, after the Edict of Nantes, with the Peace of Vervins in May 1598.
In early 1598 the king marched against Mercoeur in person, and received his submission at Angers on March 20, 1598. Mercoeur subsequently went to exile in Hungary. Mercoeur's daughter and heiress was married to the Duke of Vendôme, an illegitimate son of Henry IV.
Henry IV was faced with the task of rebuilding a shattered and impoverished Kingdom and uniting it under a single authority. Henry and his advisor, the Duke of Sully saw the essential first step in this to be the negotiation of the Edict of Nantes, which, rather than being a sign of genuine toleration, was in fact a kind of grudging truce between the religions, with guarantees for both sides [36]. The Edict can be said to mark the end of the Wars of Religion, though its apparent success was not assured at the time of its publication. Indeed, in January 1599, Henry had to visit the Parlement in person to have the Edict passed. Religious tensions continued to affect politics for many years to come, though never to the same degree, and Henry IV faced many attempts on his life; the last — a Catholic who believed the king had failed in his Christian duty — succeeding in May 1610.
Although the Edict of Nantes brought the conflicts to a close, the political freedoms it granted to the Huguenots (seen by detractors as "a state within the state") became an increasing source of trouble during the 17th century. The decision of King Louis XIII to reintroduce Catholicism in a portion of southwestern France prompted a Huguenot revolt. By the Peace of Montpellier in 1622, the fortified Protestant towns were reduced to two: La Rochelle and Montauban. Another war followed, which concluded with the Siege of La Rochelle, in which royal forces led by Cardinal Richelieu blockaded the city for fourteen months. Under the 1629 Peace of La Rochelle, the brevets of the Edict (sections of the treaty which dealt with the military and pastoral clauses and which were renewable by letters patent) were entirely withdrawn, though Protestants retained their prewar religious freedoms.
Over the remainder of Louis XIII's reign, and especially during the minority of Louis XIV, the implementation of the Edict varied year by year. In 1661 Louis XIV, who was particularly hostile to the Huguenots, assumed control of the French government and began to disregard some of the provisions of the Edict. In 1681 he instituted the policy of dragonnades, to intimidate Huguenot families to reconvert to Roman Catholicism or emigrate. Finally, in October 1685, Louis issued the Edict of Fontainebleau, which formally revoked the Edict and made the practice of Protestantism illegal in France. The revocation of the Edict had very damaging results for France. While it did not prompt renewed religious warfare, many Protestants chose to leave France rather than convert, with most moving to Great Britain, Prussia, the Dutch Republic and Switzerland.
At the dawn of the 18th century, Protestants remained in significant numbers in the remote Cévennes region of the Massif Central. This population, known as the Camisards, revolted against the government in 1702, leading to fighting that continued intermittently until 1715, after which time the Camisards were largely left in peace.


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Glenville, W.Va. – The Glenville State Pioneer basketball team pulled off a huge Mountain East Conference victory over arch rival Fairmont State University Falcons, 94-87.
The Pioneers would get down by 10, 22-12, with 8:11 left to play in the first half, however GSC would then find the hot hand and race out to an 11 point lead as they headed into halftime, 37-26.
In the second half the Pioneers would continue the good play and build a 20 point lead halfway through the second half.
But Fairmont State would make a late push but GSC would hold it off as they would go on to defeat the Falcons 94-87.
GSC would dominate FSU in the paint as they outscored them, 59 to 38.
The Pioneers also shot the ball well as they finished shooting 53 percent from the floor.
GSC had five players score in double figures with Lamar Mallory leading the way with 25 points and 9 rebounds. Reggie Williams scored 23 points and dished out a game high 7 assists.
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We will develop a system that will allow mothers and children to receive health care info.
It will be able to connect a mother and a baby to a medical personnel or disaster medical rescue team in time of disaster.
And it will also help health professionals collect information epidemics in the field.
The system can be used in the local language. It will improve the mothers ability to deal with basic health issues. It will also help health professionals collect information epidemics in the field.
It is a kind of linked open data system shared by mothers and doctors.
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【Save the Baby】
Mothers as life savers
Project to systemize the maternity health record book (made in Japan) for the better future
With loss and damages from disasters increasing globally, Japan and the World Bank have made an effort to share Japan's knowledge to strengthen resilience. In Feb. 2014, Global Disaster Response and Prevention Hackathon was held to commemorate the launch of Disaster Risk Management Hub in the Tokyo Office of the World Bank.
The subject matter was "The Developing World × Disaster Response and Prevention" using ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Total of 28 teams, 171 participants gathered in Tokyo, Ishinomaki, and Nagoya.
"Save the Baby" by Team 137 took first place out of the 16 teams that participated in Tokyo.
"Save the Baby" is the project to develop the system of the maternity health record book - the record book was originally created in Japan. The system can be useful daily and also in the time of disaster. Key features are as follows:
・Record health information of the baby, such as weight, vaccination, allergies etc
・Information delivery through the phone/internet, according to the due date and the baby's age
・Visualize infection status and provide protective measures against viral infection
・Provide health information for medical personnel in multi languages in the time of disaster
"Save the Baby" is more than the maternity health record book system. To protect the children, our goal is to make a better society as follows:
・Prevent the health imbalance of the mother and child worldwide, and bring a smile to each
・Reduce viral infection (The cause of the children's death in developing countries are diarrhea, malnutrition, and infectious diseases after natural disasters)
・Improve reproductive health by creating an environment for the mothers to learn about hygiene in developing countries
・Also stated in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, our goal is to "Reduce child mortality", "Improve maternal health", and "Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases"
Build the maternity health record book system for the developing countries
To create the secure environment for children, parents in the developing countries for a free of cost
Reduce child mortality by preventing diseases from spreading
①Recording health information, also useful during a natural disaster
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Apartamentos Teide Mar
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- Heart of Puerto de la Cruz
- Loro Parque (2.6 mi / 4.2 km)
- Mirador de La Paz (0.2 mi / 0.2 km)
- Botanical Garden of La Orotava (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
- Sitio Litre Garden (0.6 mi / 1 km)
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Safes in guestrooms can be used for EUR 1.50 per day
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650 Gettysburg Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA, 17055, United States of America, 855-239-9479
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- Free continental breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Enjoy your visit to Mechanicsburg with a stay at Econo Lodge Mechanicsburg. Guests can take a dip in the seasonal outdoor pool, and free perks include continental breakfast, WiFi, and self parking.
Main amenities
- 41 guestrooms
- Seasonal outdoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in the lobby
- Air conditioning
What's around
- Capital City Mall (2.5 mi / 4.1 km)
- Monkey Joe's (2.7 mi / 4.3 km)
- Pennsylvania State Capitol (7.6 mi / 12.2 km)
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Medical school open access journals teach open knowledge values
I was looking around YouTube for student perspectives on open access, and I found a student describing her work with a medical school student journal, the University of British Columbia Medical Journal (UBCMJ)
UBCMJ has a tag line, "By Students, For the World." If you take a look at their copyright and consent form (PDF), it is clearly stated that as an open access journal, UBCMJ will apply the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all published works. Under the CCAL, authors retain ownership and copyright to their article, but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles in the UBCMJ, so long as the original author(s) and sources are cited. The student authors retain copyright and grant UBCMJ the initial non-exclusive right of distribution.
This model of publishing represents what I like to call open knowledge values. What are some other medical school journal publishing models?
The School of Medicine where I work produces the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (YJBM), which since 2007 has been published in an open access cost-subsidized edition. YJBM cites peer-reviewed articles being read by a potential larger audience, particularly in developing countries that cannot afford subscriptions.
The Open Access concept allows for free and immediate access to YJBM's peer-reviewed articles via the Internet, expanding articles' potential audiences. In addition, Open Access publications are a valuable resource to authors in developing countries. Unlike the UBCMC Creative Commons license, YJBM requires authors to assign their copyright to the journal after publication acceptance.
The New Zealand Medical Student Journal (NZMSJ), starting publication in 2004, offers medical students a opportunity to write for medical school and eventual publishing experience in professional journals. The journal publishes research papers produced by medical students and other content that may be of interest to students. The NZMSJ has a national distribution and readership and is currently published biannually. The do occasionally receive and publish material from medical students worldwide. The editors are clearly giving away the content in an open and sharing mode, but I cannot find any explanation of copyright treatment or licensing.
In Australia in 2009, a group of students at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) proposed the creation of a national medical student journal, and the inaugural issue of the Australian Medical Student Journal (AMSJ) as a national peer-reviewed biomedical journal for student was officially launched in April of 2010. There are 20 medical schools with the potential to by contributing to this open access endeavor.
AMSJ is certainly open and available from the archive on their web site. I do not observe any mention of or consideration for copyright or usage license. In spite of the apparent focus on peer review and the immediate medical school readership, the content is available in a way the demonstrates unselfish open knowledge values. I wonder what these sincere student founders focused on quality peer review would make of the movement on the other side of the globe known as the student Right to Research Coalition?


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I think they say it's better to eat superfree as snacks, rather than free foods and my consultant always says try to eat basic foods rather than convenience foods such as savoury rice and pasta n sauces
but you are right, there's loads of calories in free foods, I sometimes tot my cals up on MFP but then it frightens me as they so often go well over 2000 (I'm not trying to lose now I'm trying to maintain) and when you start thinking about basal metabolic rates and all that stuff, you start to question how it could work! But I suppose all the free foods on slimming world have no fat in them, so low fat diets are going to help us keep the weight off without the need to count calories.
If you're losing weight though, don't worry about the calories. Everyone always says, on this forum, either calorie count OR do slimming world don't do both or you will just stress yourself out, trust the plan! I've lost over 8 n half stone on it so it can't be all about calories
The only super free you have listed is broccoli?? Try upping your super free, then you wouldn't need to have so much free food
Ages ago, when I did Slimming world before, I put everything I ate for two weeks into a calorie counter like MFP - it averaged at 1500-1600 cals a day. Some days were higher, some lower but overall there was a substantial calorie deficit between what I was eating and what I needed to stay the same (about 2300 cals for me then). I lost 3lbs. When I have done calorie counted diets I have been on between 1400 and 1700 to actually they are pretty much the same.
I think it is possible to overeat and not lose on SW, even if technically sticking to the plan, but because super free and free foods are relatively good value calorie wise and fill you up, you are unlikely to want to eat too much of them.
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Gosh those pasta and sauce thingys are evil! I have never been able to work out why they are free - they aren't even proper food (IMHO).
And I was wondering about your superfree as well. That's the point of superfree - fill up on vegetables which are low in calories and as kikaroo has said, you won't want so much free food.
And ironically, despite the kcal levels there isn't enough food there. Or certainly not enough balance. Like the others have said there is little to no superfree and although the other foods are technically free their volume is naturally limited if you adhere to the 1/3 superfree rule. Just having a muller for breakfast. Or no breakfast means your metabolism becomes sluggish meaning your body will crave higher sugar foods and refined carbs for energy. Try getting a better balance and load your plate or bowl with fruit / veg BEFORE adding your free food.
Any diet works on kcal deficit. Its simple maths. Energy out should exceed energy in. If I ate three mug shots a day (god forbid) as snacks instead of an apple I would rack up nearly 600kcal on them alone. Although the foods are free a certain amount of common sense is required and the guidelines are clear. 1/3 superfree and snacks should be superfree as a first choice and free or synned if the superfree doesn't cut it. If you follow that the plan works. If you don't, well it may work for a while dependant upon how you are before but it won't continue to allow you to lose as your kcal requirements reduce as you lose weight.
I would usually have a lot more super free food, yesterday just happened to be a day that I never had much in the house eg fruit for snacks and just used what I had to keep to plan. I was just pointing out how much calories there actually was in free foods which I never even thought of before and thought because the are free that calories would be a lot lower.
Just to balance this out a bit I've just done my food diary from yesterday on there and this is what I've got:
Free Food
Fat free greek yogurt (100g) - 57 cals
3 bean salad (tesco 1/2 can) - 100 cals
Naturally sweet corn (tesco 30g) - 25 cals
Light Fat Free French Dressing (Kraft 50ml) - 15 cals
Dried fusilli pasta (Tesco 50g) - 173 cals
Eggs (1.5 medium) - 97 cals
FF Cottage Cheese (Tesco 60g) - 48 cals
Super Free
Red Onion (17g) - 6 cals
Tomato (35g) - 8 cals
Cucumber (50g) - 3 cals
Plum (1 whole) - 30 cals
Banana (large) - 121 cals
Mushrooms (300g) - 69 cals
Leeks (1/2 leek) - 19 cals
Meditarranean Roasting Vegetables (Tesco 1 tray) - 152 cals
Healthy Extras
Lighter Mature Cheddar (Tesco 40g) - 122 cals
Weetabix (2 biscuits) - 134 cals
Cappuccino (Tassimo) - 45 cals
Total cals - 1225
That lot made:
Breakfast - 2 weetabix topped with fat free greek yogurt. A plum. Cappuccino.
Lunch - Bean salad with cucumber, tomato, sweetcorn, onion. Banana
Dinner - Pasta quiche (pastryless) with mushrooms, tomatoes and leeks, topped with cheese, served with roasted mediterranean vegetables.
So there is a lot of food there and I definitely wasn't hungry at any point but the calories are quite low. Focusing on super free is definitely the best way to ensure you get more bang for your buck!


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Situated near the airport, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Bucket Fountain and Cuba Street Mall. Civic Square and Courtenay Place are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has an indoor pool and a fitness center. Other amenities include a bar/lounge, a sauna, and WiFi in public areas.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Mercure Wellington provides a sauna and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge.
A business center is on site at this 3.5-star property. Event facilities measuring 3993 square feet (371 square meters) include conference space. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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- 24-hour front desk
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Breakfast is available for a surcharge each morning.
Brasserie 345 - Overlooking the ocean, this restaurant serves breakfast and dinner.
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I posted earlier about my wife's scheme to buy only used stuff. Cost isn't the only motivating factor, but it's one of them. I also noted I'd already bought a couple of biking- and running-related items new. Then I decided to ask Quicken how much I had spent on my habits last year – it was a bit of an eye-opener.
- Bike stuff: $2,395
- Fitness: $1,054
- Total: $3,449
Yowza. When you consider that the 'Fitness' category includes 12 months of family gym fees in addition to all my various running gear (shoes, clothes, ipod nano, Nike+ kit), you really start to wonder if I'm laundering money through the bike store. Or why I didn't trade biking for running a long time ago.
For better or worse, 2006 was spendy for the bike habit, in part because I finally repaired some 2 year old accident damage on the road bike, and in part because in 10 years I had not had to replace any major parts until this year. In June, I found my shifters were worn out, and in September I had to have my rear wheel rebuilt; I also had professional tune-ups on both bikes in the Spring, and bought some "real" bike clothes once I started to realize just how much better bike jerseys are than cotton T-shirts. I did buy some "luxury" items like a new cyclocomputer with cadence (all of $20 on clearance), clip pedals for both bikes, bike sandals and shoes, but then I also got new tires after nearly blowing one up a couple months ago.
June actually was the impetus for spending a good portion of that $2,395: I was on TOMRV 29 with Andy, and we were assaulted with rain, wind, and temperatures in the low 40s the first day. The second day warmed up to the mid 40s. The cold caused my rear shifter to stop working, which is a bit of a downer when you're traversing 130 or so miles of fairly continuous hills. I also at that point owned tennis shoes, proper bike shorts, open-fingered bike gloves, and one short-sleeved bike jersey. No shoe covers, no tights, no jacket, no helmet cover, no proper gloves, you get the idea. I dropped $5 at a local grocery store for some Hefty leaf sacks, and Andy and I became laughingly/disparagingly known as "the garbage bag guys" for the rest of the weekend. Given that those things block wind and rain better than any technical gear you can find at any price, we didn't much care, though it was an amusing contrast to our experience on RAGBRAI where nobody gives a shit what you look like as long as you keep your fingers out of their beer. Come to think of it, that $5 is not reflected in the total above. Crap, I'm at $2,400 and counting…
Anyway, after that miserable experience on TOMRV (no fault of the QCBC, and I'll be back again this year), I took no chances and ordered up all the cold and rain gear I was missing, and I've been using it too. J&G makes some absolutely great stuff. But I wonder how
much little I could have got away with spending if I'd been so inclined? I've already been slowly accumulating some used parts for my road bike off eBay, largely because original type parts for it are no longer available, and it has been really cheap inexpensive compared to new … I'll be interested to see if this scheme has any merit to it over the long haul.
Update Jan 6: I checked the past few years, and found $309, $679, and $171 spent for biking those years, and those years each saw well over 1500 miles of biking, so now I don't feel so bad. Actually that $679 figure includes the purchase of a complete Trek 7200 bicycle with some accessories, so pretty darned good.


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A's Snap 4-Game Skid With 10-0 Win Over Tigersnytimes.com Updated May 26, 2014Kyle Blanks homered in his home debut at the Coliseum and Derek Norris capped Oakland's five-homer day with a grand slam and the Athletics snapped a season-long four-game losing streak with a 10-0 win over the Detroit Tigers on Monday.Share Tweet
Athletics Trounce TigersMay 26The Athletics hit five home runs en route to defeating the Tigers 10-0.
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On Holidays, Heroes and A Patriot Named BradyMay 26On this Memorial Day, we pause to remember the 1.3 million American soldiers who have died in war since our founding, and the 1.5 million who have been wounded. Thank you. Thank you again, to all who have served and sacrificed, and to those who now serv…


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Is It Real? (Booklet)
In Is It Real? John MacArthur helps you come to grips with the question, "Is my salvation the real thing, or am I only kidding myself?"
At the heart of this booklet are eleven test questions for you to answer that will help you evaluate where you are spiritually. You don't have to live in fear of the question, "Is my conversion real?"


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On Campus
Do your friends and fellow students know what "planning" is? If not, then the time is right to tell your planning story. Celebrate National Community Planning Month this October by reaching out to non-planners, whether they're your fellow students on campus, members of your community, or businesses in your town. Educate them about the importance of our profession and why you are passionate about this field.
National Community Planning Month Activities
Organize a planning career fair
Help encourage future planners by organizing a career fair with planning jobs front and center at your school. Invite government agencies and planning firms to set up booths. Spread the word around campus, and reach out to fellow students in public policy, architecture, landscape, civil engineering, and other departments.
Considering a career in planning?
Organize a volunteer event
Organize a Box City event at a local school or youth club. This wonderful hands-on tool will empower others to learn about issues that relate to their built environment and show how planning can achieve long-term visions and create livable spaces. The Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE) specializes in this kind of community-based education.
The Center for Understanding the Built Environment
Share your success
Send brief descriptions of activities you are planning for the National Community Planning Month to email@example.com. Seeing what other students are doing around the country can stimulate additional public agencies, organizations, firms, and individuals to get involved.
APA scholarships are awarded to students currently enrolled in degree programs in planning or closely related fields.
Planning students
Students are active in chapters, participate in APA governance through the Student Representatives Council, and meet and exchange ideas on campuses through Planning Student Organizations.
This month, celebrate National Community Planning Month with:
A tour
Show parents and your colleagues in other disciplines the power and importance of planning on and around campus or in your own neighborhood. Describe how planning made these places great and how future planning efforts can have a positive impact on distressed neighborhoods around your campus.
A lecture
Ask your college dean and university president to sponsor a symposium or lecture series about planning efforts that are directly affecting your campus or community. Ask local APA experts to speak at the event.
A discussion
Ask non-planning students about their favorite streets and neighborhoods on and around campus. Tell the planning story of these places and how they relate to students' daily life. For example, show your fellow students the benefits of taking transit to classes. Point out that the picnic areas and other green spaces that students enjoy are the result of hard-fought battles against encroaching development.
An exhibition
Contact your local jurisdiction about plans that are in the works, or those published, and see if they can organize an exhibition of their current programs on your campus. They may be thrilled to have this opportunity to reach out to students and the academic world.
A community service project
Organize a community service group in your planning school, and come up with local projects or events that will help your community. Ask your professors and see if you can blend this into your class projects. Ask local planners and businesses for assistance — you may be surprised by how much help you can get.
A local planning project
Attend a meeting of the local planning commission or city council. Encourage fellow students to attend with you to learn about the planning process. Volunteer to help local planning staff on a project, and ask your professor if the work can count towards a class assignment. Remember, planning is practical, and academic training can be tested in real world projects when you are a student. Also, ask your local APA chapter if you can be helpful in planning-related activities.
A documentary
Use your video camera to capture life on your campus or in your community and show the challenges of growth and change. Then, upload your short documentary onto YouTube and send it to firstname.lastname@example.com so it can be showcased by APA.


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A full overview of Paris-Orly Airport. Photo was taken from the board of flight FR5463 (route from Charleroi to Madrid Barajas).
Climbing over Pisa. On the right side of the photo you can see the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
After arrival from Belgium.
Cargo Apron - you can see A300F, B767-300F and B747-8F
Flight WZZ2467 to Warsaw Chopin Airport is climbing after departure from Runway 13R. Good visible Terminal 2A and 2B with quite empty aprons.
Crashed on the 28th of July 2010 before landing in Islamabad.
First Dreamliner for LOT Polish Airlines as flight LOT9787 is landing on runway 33. Delivery flight from Everett (KPAE).
Flight LO420 after arrival from Zurich.
LOT9218 departing Runway 29 for Bydgoszcz (BZG/EPBY). The day before, SP-LRC was delivered to LOT Polish Airlines, it is the third Dreamliner for polish national carrier.
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Gilles Marini & Vanessa Marano on "Switched at Birth"
"Switched at Birth" is the hit ABC Family show that tells the story of two teen girls who discover that they were accidentally switched at birth. Vanessa Marano plays Bay Kennish who grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing as a child due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a poor neighborhood. Gilles Marini plays Angelo Sorrento-- Bay's biological father. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.
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ALK released free CoPilot Live navigation app for iPhone
updated 04:45 pm EST, Wed January 20, 2010
Maps can be added as an in-app purchasee
ALK Technologies has announced that its CoPilot Live Directions app is now available on the App Store as a 30-day free trial. The iPhone utility provides full navigation capabilities, including turn-by-turn instructions and voice guidance. Map data is stored locally on the handset, rather than constantly requiring a network connection when traveling.
After the free trial is complete, users can continue to use the basic map-only turn-by-turn directions for the US and Canada. The premium package with voice guidance and 3D maps can be added via an in-app purchase for a monthly or yearly subscription.
CoPilot Live Directions requires an iPhone 3G or 3GS running firmware v3.0 or later. The premium services are available for $20 per year or $3 per month, while a live traffic option can be added for $5.


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As to whether a PhD in general is worth doing... if you want a career in academic law, then stay. If your ultimate goal is to practice law professionally, walk away now and get a job.


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Posted By The Finsiders On March 14, 2014 @ 4:12 pm In Football | 6 Comments
[1]Yesterday, news broke of Pro Bowl corner and former St. Louis Rams DB Cortland Finnegan coming down to visit the Miami Dolphins. Now it appears that he could be more than just visiting Miami.
According to Albert Breer of NFL Network, Finnegan has decided to sign with the Dolphins.
The Dolphins are finalizing a 2-year deal with CB Cortland Finnegan, per source.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) March 14, 2014 [2]
Finnegan is expected to contend for one of the starting cornerback jobs opposite Pro Bowl corner Brent Grimes, along with 2nd year players Jamar Taylor and Will Davis.
Finnegan, 30, played in seven games in 2013, starting in five. In eight seasons in the NFL, he has made 601 combined tackles, picked off quarterbacks 18 times and has 78 passes defended. Finnegan made the Pro Bowl in 2008 with the Tennessee Titans.
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[3] 2014 Free Agency: Complete Coverage: http://www.thefinsiders.com/blog/2014/2014-free-agency-complete-coverage
[4] 2014 Fins Free Agent Signings: http://www.thefinsiders.com/blog/2014/miami-dolphins-official-signings
[5] Hickey: We Are Excited About The Future: http://www.miamidolphins.com/news/article-1/Hickey-We-Are-Excited-About-The-Future/125b709d-ed1c-46ab-b653-6f40a6f0b4a2
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Nothing beats watching the live action unfold when assessing genuine greyhound form for your greyhound betting, but when that is not possible, what provides the 'next best' source of racing information? Steward's reports and race comments are one potential avenue, but how best can they be used in your foolproof betting system?
Steward's reports
When it s not possible to watch racing live, or review a video, the Steward's reports can give a very good indication of how an earlier race unfolded. A keen racing eye can see beyond the basic information of final positions and finishing times, and notice more of the subtle qualities that can identify future winners or help avoid backing losers when betting on greyhound races. While handicappers and racing enthusiasts would always prefer to see the action themselves, the vastly experienced stewards can also do a very good job.
A report will give a brief description of the race, but particularly noting why some dogs will have been unable to run to their full potential;
"KING (5) and DANCER (6) were checked to the rear early. RICK VILLA (2) and CASH COW (3) contested the lead early before RICK VILLA (2) drew away when turning out of the back. ENGLISH ROSE (7) became hampered behind CASH COW (3) approaching the home turn. PRESIDENT (4) raced wide when entering the home straight.
Reading the report
The above report notes that boxes five and six were both checked, but boxes two and three were both able to get away quickly. This information is always useful, and just adds a little value to the sort of early pace information that the race card provides. An unexplained poor split time, might be forgiven if a steward's report notes some form of hampering in that particular race – rather than any inconsistency with the greyhound itself.
The later comments then highlight events as the race continued to develop. Box three would appear to have slipped back from contention, and slowed up box seven in the process. This is obviously key information when assessing those two dogs further down the line – box three maybe lacks the pace to compete at that level, while box seven could, and should, improve on this performance next time out – assuming it does not make a habit of finding trouble.
Greyhound betting system strategy and the steward's reports
To gain full value from any race report, the reader has to have faith that the report will identify the sorts of incidents that will be important to that specific reader building their greyhound betting system. If reports rarely pick up the really key nuggets of information that the reader needs, it may not be of great use. To judge the quality of reports from a particular track, it is worth trying to view both a race video, and the steward's report (where both exist) and making a judgement on whether the information required is being reported. The other method of course, is to put full faith in the information until results prove otherwise. The only weakness of this approach is it allows handicappers to pin blame on the race assessment of others, and this is not always helpful. Punters rarely need an excuse to blame others for their own shortcomings in spotting value!


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CLEVELAND -- There are more Independent voters than members of either political party nationwide.
According to a recent Gallup poll, 40 percent of voters say they are Independents. In Cuyahoga County, the number is 49 percent.
Yet in many states, Independent voters feel like second-class citizens.
They pay for the cost of elections, but cannot vote in partisan primaries. Ohio is one of those states.
A new group, a state chapter of a nationwide group, is being launched in Ohio.
You can get more information about Independent Ohio by connecting at email@example.com or go to the national website below.
Tom Beres discusses the role of Independent voters and their rights with group members Cynthia Carpathios, Franz Bauer and Channel 3 Political Analysts Mary Anne Sharkey and Dennis Eckart on this edition of Between the Lines.


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Editor's Note: Please join me in welcoming guest contributor, Sam Omulligan. Omulligan is a writer and educator interested in finding and sharing information relating to the healthcare profession. Primarily working with and for nurses who have an interest in better education, and developing a more substantial career.
As a professional path, nursing has long been an attractive choice for many: steady and available work, good pay, and flexible hours. Nurses usually work for practical reasons, and paying the light bill is surely a valid reason that most of us share. Yet, many yearn for deeper job satisfaction – they are looking for 'Something More.' Below we will discuss the attributes of great nurse. Please tell us what you think in the comments section below.
Attribute 1: The Attitude of Adventure
In her delightful book, Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self, Sarah Ban Breathnach speaks of the "search for Something More as a sacred adventure…the willingness to shed what's safe and predictable in order to embrace the new." Nurses can live this attribute every day:
- Are you willing to advance your formal education? Today's options of accredited online educational programs have provided flexibility for those who desire to advance, perhaps with an RN to BSN or MSN degree program. Use the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to search by state and by your desired degree program: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ccne/reports/accprog.asp
- Are you willing to achieve practice excellence via certification? Empowered nurses contribute to better patient outcomes. Opportunities to validate your clinical skills, knowledge and abilities are offered in multiple specialties, such as school nursing, community health, high-risk prenatal nursing, cardiac rehabilitation and more. Search all your options via the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC): http://www.nursecredentialing.org/Certification.aspx
- Are you willing to invest the time and energy to stay current in your field? Reading professional journals literature is a click away on your computer. Use the free online access to reliable nursing research and evidence-based knowledge at the Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library, housed on the Sigma Theta Tau website: http://www.nursinglibrary.org/
Attribute 2: The Ability to Think Critically
The ability to directly apply knowledge to manage the complexities that actually exist in practice is a key attribute for nurses. This involves much more than just memorizing facts and principles. If you struggle with this, Judith Wilkinson's Nursing Process and Critical Thinking (5th edition) offers concrete examples and hands-on exercises, so nurses can understand and apply the nursing process to today's healthcare environment.
Attribute 3: The Willingness to Collaborate
As Bach states in the introduction of Goodman & Clemow's Nursing and Collaborative Practice, "Nursing is a far from solitary occupation…and there are many reports into health and social are situations that have gone disastrously wrong because of poor collaboration and communication between fellow workers." Successful nurses learn how to effectively interact with colleagues, patients and peers in the working world.
Attribute 4: The Ability to Care for Others
According to renowned theorist Jean Watson, caring forms the basis for the nursing profession.
Successful nurses go beyond a task, infusing their practice with a respect for humanity and the desire to heal. To learn more about this central art to nursing, refer to Watson's Human Caring Science: A Theory of Nursing.
Attribute 5: The Ability to Care for Self
Making a difference in the lives of others is second nature for most nurses. But when does 'being selfless' become emotionally and physically unhealthy – increasing the chance for burnout? Successful nurses access energy, vitality and calmness in the midst of the busy world of healthcare. Here is a sample of the many available resources that will help you care for yourself as well as your patients:
- Gary Scholar's Fit Nurse: Your Total Plan for Getting Fit and Living Well discusses various comprehensive wellness plans.
- Sharon Weinstein's B is for Balance: A Nurse's Guide for Enjoying Life at Work and at Home offers ideas to find your purpose, simplify your life and manage stress.
Bringing It Home
Every year, nurses graduate from nursing school and find a job within the healthcare field. Yet learning to be a successful and great nurse is something different. You might desire more than a paycheck from your nursing career, and that requires courageous choices and living authentically. If you do, listen to Ban Breathnach: "For the sake of all that is holy, believe that you deserve nothing less than Something More."
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808.17 Service Determination Appointment (SDA) and Ongoing Assessments (FAM)
The service determination appointment (SDA) is conducted by an NHEP Employment Counselor Specialist (ECS). Ongoing assessments are conducted to update the Employability Plan (EP).
The purpose of the assessment process is to:
• determine the individual's ability to become employed;
• determine the individual's short and long-term employment goals;
• assess potential barriers to employment; and
• determine the appropriate NHEP activities and support services needed for an individual and their family to become self-sufficient.
Service Determination Appointment Procedures
• Form NHEP223, *Job Search Log, for Job Search activity participation hours and job search efforts;
• Form NHEP267, Job Readiness Activity Verification Form, for Job Readiness activity participation hours and job readiness efforts; and
• Form NHEP225, NHEP Planning for Success: Job Readiness Portfolio, for completeness:
The NHEP Portfolio:
• allows the NHEP participant to:
- assess interests, skills, and barriers to employment; and
- target employment needs and long-term goals to use in the development of the EP.
• provides the ECS with:
- a tool to assess the participant's readiness for the labor market;
- information a participant may provide to a prospective employer;
- the participant's reading and writing ability;
- the participant's ability to follow instructions; and
• is used to discuss with the participant the potential issues that affect the participant's ability to:
- obtain and retain employment;
- become economically self-sufficient, independent of FANF financial assistance; and
- access services to address identified issues.
Conduct an individualized assessment and enter into New HEIGHTS the:
• employment history;
• employment and/or training preference;
• educational history, skills, and abilities;
• potential barriers to immediate employment or employment preparation, including:
- the need for NH Child Care Scholarship, transportation, or other support service;
- claims that the individual or a family member are or have been a victim of domestic violence;
- health problems that may affect NHEP participation;
- immediate issues or family circumstances, including serious problems involving children, that need to be resolved prior to participation; and
• any other factors that should be considered before enrollment in an NHEP activity.
Participant Requirements
Participants must attend all appointments arranged by the ECS to complete the assessment process, including but not limited to:
• interviews and orientation;
• job search/job readiness workshops;
• vocational testing and interpretation;
• employment counseling; and
• EP development.
Service Determination Appointment Requirements
The SDA is conducted on an individual basis.
Use Form NHEP223 and Form NHEP267 to verify participation hours and assess compliance with Job Search and Job Readiness efforts. Discuss any concerns about participation resulting from reviewing Form NHEP223 and Form NHEP267 with the participant. Collect information on the individual's circumstances. Use this information and the completed Form NHEP225 activities to identify the individual's needs and to develop an EP. The ECS completes an EP for each NHEP participant.
All individuals are referred to approved core and secondary activities with the exception of participants who:
• are determined by the ECS to have serious and substantial personal barriers to employment;
• attend or are required to attend full-time educational programs or alternative educational activities directed toward the attainment of a high school diploma or the equivalent;
• express a desire to attend full-time educational programs, or alternative educational activities, directed toward the attainment of a high school diploma or the equivalent, and are referred by the ECS; or
• are determined by the ECS to meet the requirements for education or vocational skills training.
Ongoing Assessment Procedures
As part of the ongoing assessment, the ECS must:
• monitor support service use by reviewing verifications and payment history;
• monitor and verify activity participation to determine if the individual is making satisfactory progress;
• monitor the individual's compliance with activity requirements;
• monitor and determine if the individual is meeting participation requirements; and
• assess the need for referral to other community services or NHEP activities. See Barrier Resolution for further information.
Satisfactory Progress
The ECS must determine if an individual is making satisfactory progress in an activity. The organization or agency, educational or training facility, or employer or provider, set the minimum standards for an activity to measure the NHEP individual's:
• proficiency level in an activity; and
• ability to complete the activity in a timely manner.
Satisfactory progress in an activity means the individual is meeting the minimum standards. Some measures of satisfactory progress may include:
• academic grades;
• progress/evaluation reports;
• attendance;
• keeping on schedule for the customary progression in the activity; and
• completing steps in an activity towards an award, degree, or certificate.
If the participant is not making satisfactory progress in an NHEP activity, determine the reason(s) for the lack of satisfactory progress and either:
• modify the activity requirements; or
• refer the individual to another activity.


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