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Many veterans find the transition back to civilian life full of unexpected challenges. In addition to the federal and state government, a number of private organizations in Maine offer programs and services designed to help veterans deal with those challenges. We take a look at a few of them.
One day, Rich Brewer decided to put an end to the PTSD tormenting him. The former Marine headed to his basement with a gun. First, he put it in his mouth. Then he decided it would hurt less if he shot himself in the temple. Brewer went back and forth, over and over. Mouth or temple? He couldn't decide.
That's when he had what he calls a God moment. "I realized that the hesitation was God telling me, 'You don't want to die.'" Brewer decided not only to live, but "to live like Mach 1 with my hair on fire."
The first step: Seek help.
Brewer had enjoyed a distinguished career in the Marines. He joined at age 17, and 19 months later had been promoted to sergeant. He was selected to attend Marine Security Guard School, got a top secret security clearance from the U.S. State Department and was assigned to the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
That's where Brewer was on Sept. 20, 1984, when a suicide truck bomb exploded. Brewer suffered burns, lacerations, a broken arm - and other injuries that weren't so visible, even to him.
In 1987, he left the Marines - decorated with a Purple Heart and other honors - and began a new career as a Massachusetts state trooper. Later, he married and started a new life.
But he said the psychological scars from the Beirut trauma were still there, no matter how good his life seemed on the outside. For help, he first turned to the VA. But he says the agency wasn't offering what he needed.
So he started his own program for veterans suffering from PTSD and other battle wounds. And he gave it a name that reflected his own salvation: One Warrior Won.
"When a veteran came to me, the only thing they would have to say to me is 'I need help,'" he says. "And after that, we would sit together and figure out what help they needed and we would go forth and get it."
One Warrier Won, headquartered in Portland, Maine is now in 17 states with 21 affiliates across the country. Brewer says the program is custom tailored for each individual veteran.
"When the veteran comes in, I say, 'What do you need? What are you willing to do?' Then we develop a program around that, because every veteran is different."
Veterans can try alternative healing methods, such as acupuncture, Emotional Freedom Technique or yoga, if they wish. If they're craving a battle-style adreneline high, Brewer organizes "adventure expeditions," which might include ice climbing, kayaking, mountain climbing - anything that gets the juices flowing and creates the camaraderie many veterans miss in their civilian lives.
And Brewer fosters another kind of healing relationship: His organization provides veterans with "PTSD service dogs." The dogs, rescued from shelters, are specially trained to recognize oncoming panic attacks, nightmares and other manifestations of PTSD. Brewer says he could not live without his service dog, Anka.
"She wakes me up from nightmares," he says. "Dogs can sense and smell our hormones and things, so when I'm suffering from a potential panic attack and it's building up inside me, she can smell that, she can sense that, and she will actually literally herd me out of where I am, whether it's a crowded room or a grocery store."
Brewer says training the dogs and matching them up with veterans is very expensive - the process takes several months - and the VA doesn't cover it. So far, he says, he's been able to provide about a dozen veterans with PTSD service dogs, and hopes to link up many more, if he can find the funds.
But one of the most important things One Warrior Won does, Brewer says, is public education. "We're not crazy," he says. "PTSD sufferers aren't around every corner, waiting to kill everybody."
Brewer says it's important for the 93 percent of Americans who are not members of the military to understand that PTSD isn't a mental illness. He says it's a normal, predictable, biological reaction to the stress of combat and other traumatic events. And it's a condition that veterans can learn to cope with, he says - if they get the proper help.
Getting veterans that help is what Rich Brewer is now dedicating his life to. "My whole life is traveling around this country trying to stop 22 veterans a day from killing themselves," he says.
Learn more about One Warrior Won.
Bread of Life Ministries always had a few military veterans in its homeless shelter, opened in 1986. But Executive Director Dean Lachance says after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the ensuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the demand jumped astronomically.
"They come back broken and severely disabled," Lachance says. "And the community, the country, the churches - even the VA, we in this country - aren't really prepared to deal with this onslaught of veterans who are coming back with severe challenges from PTSD and physical injuries."
So Lachance decided to take action. "We jumped in with both feet to do some serious support for veterans, and we applied for a grant with the VA," he says. The application - for funds for a new homeless shelter specifically for veterans - was approved, and Bread of Life Ministries now runs Maine's only such facility. "We have 12 beds, and they're always full," Lachance says.
The shelter has been harboring homeless veterans for three years now. But that wasn't good enough for Lachance. "We recognized there was a need for homeownership as well, so we have some property which we were able to make available to build 20 homes for veterans."
The homes are designed for the disabled, with ramps, fully accessible bathrooms and other features. Bread of Life was able to subsidize the cost of the homes, thanks in part to grants from Home Depot and a federal community block grant program.
Lachance says Bread of Life Ministries runs largely on private and public grant money, and individual donations. In addition to the veterans shelter, the organization operates a separate shelter for non-veterans, a soup kitchen and a transitional housing program.
It's also partnered with veteran Travis Mills, who lost parts of both arms and legs in combat in Afghanistan. The so-called Travis Mills Project aims to create a National Veteran Recreation Center on a site in Belgrade, Maine.
Bread of Life also operates a resource center that provides one-on-one help for veterans seeking jobs, housing, educational opportunities and other vital services. Lachance says BOLM has staff available 24 hours a day to help guide veterans.
"They're all eligible for supportive services at the VA," he says, "so we make sure they're getting connected to a mental health support person, or support for physical health needs, or financial needs, connecting to job services, getting connected to career centers or the university, both of which have specialized services for veterans."
Lachance says Bread of Life Ministries works closely with the VA Medical Center at Togus, located next door. He says the partnership is beginning to make some inroads. But he says there's still a long way to go to meet the needs of veterans.
"They're twice as likely to have suicide, twice as likely to have substance abuse, twice as likely to have mental health issues, twice as likely to have divorce," he says. "They're coming back with physical and mental challenges that make their daily life very, very difficult. We don't get what they've gone through, nor will we ever. But awareness is so important."
Learn more about Bread of Life Ministries.
Two-and-a-half years ago, Navy wife Joy Johnson heard a statistic that chilled her to the bone: Twenty-two U.S. military veterans a day commit suicide, "which equates to a veteran every 65 minutes killing themselves," Johnson says.
That was the impetus for Johnson to establish Embrace A Vet, a year-old organization based in Harpswell, Maine, which is devoted to helping veterans recover from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - or PTSD - and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Johnson says Embrace A Vet, which she founded with therapist Bonnie-Kate Allen, partners with local Veterans Centers, but takes up where traditional programs leave off. She says it's designed to complement mainstream treatments.
"I would said we're getting mostly Vietnam veterans, which is a beautiful thing because they never got the support back when they needed it, and many of them are tuning into things that they've been carrying around for 46 or 47 years," Johnson says.
For veterans who have not been able to "tune into things" through mainstream programs, Embrace A Vet offers alternatives. Among them are five- to seven-day long "healing retreats" where veterans can participate in a variety of alternative healing practices, including massage, acupuncture, Yoga, EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique - and Native American ceremony.
The retreats offer plenty of recreational activities, too, such as woodcarving, Nordic walking, fly fishing and therapeutic riding.
Johnson says veterans are required to come with a partner - "someone important in their lives," she says. The partners, often a spouse - learn the alternative healing techniques so they can help veterans continue them when the retreats come to an end.
One of the best things about the program is that it doesn't cost veterans a cent. Johnson says Embrace A Vet is funded largely through money-raising community events that she puts on herself, often in her Harpswell home, and individual donations - of either time, goods or money.
"So many people want to do something and they don't have a clue what to do," Johnson says. "One woman baked 34-dozen cookies. Some guy that just came to a fundraiser as a guest has sent us two $1,000 checks during the year. One guy gave us $10,000."
She says Embrace a Vet also follows up with every participant. She says it's a data-gathering effort aimed at finding out which elements of the program work over the long term, and which ones don't. Johnson says she hopes that will pay off in the future.
"It's a great way for the community to say, 'Thank you,'" Johnson says.
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Cardiovascular Disease
Behavioral: Pharmacist CVD
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Cardiovascular Intervention Improvement Telemedicine Study
- CVD Risk profile [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 & 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Survey measures on Physical Activity, Diet [ Time Frame: Baseline 6, & 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- BMI calculated from vitals obtained during interview [ Time Frame: Baseline 6, & 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Systolic BP collected during bp outcome measurement conducted at interviews [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 & 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- LDL collected during interview visit to lab [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 &12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- HBA1C in Diabetic patients collected at during interview visit to lab [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 & 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Medication adherence - as determined by pill refill using a calculated Med-out index. [ Time Frame: 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|November 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm 1
The pharmacist CVD intervention group - clinical pharmacist-administered intervention which focuses on behavioral and medication management for 12 months.
Behavioral: Pharmacist CVD
clinical pharmacist-administered intervention which focuses on behavioral and medication management for 12 months.
No Intervention: Arm 2
The education control group - these participants will receive educational material about CVD reduction.
Detailed Description:
Anticipated Impacts on Veteran's Healthcare: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the U.S.; more than 80% of veterans have > 2 risk factors for CVD. An intervention that addresses multiple CVD risk factors among high-risk veterans has the greatest potential to improve morbidity and mortality.
Project Background/Rationale: The proposed study will take place in two VA primary care clinics (1-Community-Based Outpatient Clinics and 1-primary care clinic affiliated with a hospital). We will improve CVD risk among veterans by addressing the modifiable risk factors of systolic blood pressure (SBP), smoking, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). The intervention will be tailored to the needs of vulnerable high risk patients (e.g. African Americans, low literate) and integrated into clinics, thereby enhancing the potential for benefit and generalizability to other settings.
The proposed study could significantly improve CVD risk management among veterans for several reasons: 1) This intervention is a novel extension of our previous efficacious interventions, but provides a novel extension to address multiple chronic conditions contributing to CVD risk. 2) The intervention focuses on both multiple CVD-related behaviors and medication management. 3) The intervention was developed to ensure implementation across a large and representative sample of veterans; and; 4) The intervention, if found efficacious and financially self-sustaining, could be widely implemented within the VA healthcare system.
Project Objectives: The proposed study will examine two research questions:
Can patients randomized to a clinical pharmacist-administered telephone behavioral/ medication management intervention tailored to their needs improve CVD outcomes relative to a control group over 12 months? Primary Hypothesis: (H1) Veterans who receive the behavioral/medication intervention will have greater improvement of their CVD Risk Profile over the 12 months of follow-up as compared to the control group.
Secondary Hypotheses: (H2) Veterans who receive the intervention will have improved medication adherence, physical activity, improved diet, lower body mass index as compared to the control group over 12 months of follow-up. (H3) Veterans who receive the intervention will have greater improvements in LDL over the 12 months of follow-up as compared to the control group. (H4) Veterans with diabetes who receive the intervention will have greater improved HbA1c as compared to the control group over 12 months of follow-up.
- If the intervention is found to be effective, is it cost effective? Project Methods: To address these hypotheses, we propose a two-arm randomized clinical trial design in which 500 patients with cardiovascular disease will be randomized to either the education control group or the intervention group. Patients randomized to the intervention group will receive a clinical pharmacist-administered intervention, which focuses on behavioral and a medication management. The intervention will occur over 12 months. Patients randomized to the control group will receive educational material about CVD reduction. Given the national prevalence of CVD and the dismal rates of risk factor control, intensive, but easily disseminated interventions such as the one proposed could significantly improve treatment of this epidemic in the VA.
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Enrolled in one of three Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (DVAMC) Primary Care Clinics affiliated with the hospital or the Raleigh Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) for at least one year;
- At least one visit to a primary care physician (PCP) at the Raleigh CBOC or Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) associated primary care clinics in the previous 12 months;
- Outpatient diagnostic code for hypertension and/or hypercholesterolemia and lab values indicating either poorly controlled BP levels (>150/90 Hg) AND/OR LDL (>130mg/dl) in the previous year.
Exclusion Criteria:
- diagnosed with metastatic cancer,
- diagnosed with dementia,
- active diagnosis of psychosis,
- treated with dialysis,
- most recent creatinine lab level >2.5 or no creatinine lab value within past year
- hospitalized for a stroke, heart attack, or had surgery for blocked arteries in the past 3 months,
- participating in another interventional trial,
- not currently receiving care at the Durham VAMC or the Raleigh CBOC
- resident of a nursing home,
- hard time seeing type/printing on books, magazines articles, etc.
- hard time hearing on the telephone
- limited/no access to telephone
- plans to move medical care from DVAMC or Raleigh CBOC in next 12 months
- CVD care is currently being managed by a clinical pharmacist
- A1C value in the last 90day > 10% and patient is currently not on an insulin regimen.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01142908
|United States, North Carolina
|Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705
|Principal Investigator:
|Hayden B. Bosworth, PhD
|Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
|Responsible Party:
|VA Office of Research and Development
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01142908 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 24, 2010
|Last Updated:
|May 26, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by VA Office of Research and Development:
Cardiovascular Disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cardiovascular Diseases
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 05, 2016

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Just read the above and found it amusing.
Urban Rivals is the number 1 online TCG, Alteil is number 2.
Has anyone else actually played Urban Rivals?
I have, and I think its beyond terrible.
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piratipper wrote:And actually, the first thing I'd say about Alteil isn't the fact that it's 'story driven' :/
and I think it is the best game I have ever played.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Dan Ellis made 33 saves for his first shutout in more than two years and Eric Staal scored to lead the Carolina Hurricanes to a 1-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Friday night.
Ellis, making only his second start of the season in place of Cam Ward, earned his 13th career shutout and first since Nov. 9, 2010, against Toronto while he was with Tampa Bay.
Carolina improved to 9-0-1 in its last 10 home games against the Senators.
Ottawa came in with a 5-1-1 record but struggled to generate many scoring chances. Jason Spezza underwent surgery on a herniated disc in his back earlier Friday, and the Senators could be without their No. 1 center for up to two months.
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2008-13 Strategic Plan
In 2013 the Curtis Institute of Music completed a bold five-year strategic plan. Launched in 2008 and inspired by Curtis's mission to educate and train exceptionally gifted young musicians for careers as performing artists on the highest professional level, the plan supported a bold vision to be the finest music conservatory in the world—the first choice for students who aspire to performance careers.
The Strategic Plan focused on areas critical to success in attaining the vision. Ambitious multiyear goals in each area were supported by strategic steps toward their achievement, expressed as annual strategic goals. A flexible financial projection ensured the school's financial stability and the excellence of Curtis's educational program as the plan progressed. Implementation began with the 2008–09 school year and continued through the 2012–13 school year.
The plan's completion represents an unprecedented period of innovation at Curtis, supported by nearly $158.5 million raised from the generous community of Curtis donors.
Details of the accomplishments of the strategic plan are in the 2008–13 Strategic Plan Report, below. Also below are Annual Reports for each year of the strategic plan.
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Baldwin 4209102
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1 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-03-22Works: Giuseppe Torelli: Concerto grosso in A minor, Op. 8/2; Concerto grosso in C minor, Op. 8/8; Sinfonia for trumpet, strings & continuo, G. 8; Concerto grosso in G major, Op. 8/5; Concerto a 4 in forma ...
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Thanks to brain impulses, your baby's facial muscles are getting a workout as her tiny features form one expression after another. About now, your baby can grasp, squint, frown, and grimace. She may even be able to suck her thumb. Meanwhile, your baby's kidneys are producing urine, which she releases into the amniotic fluid around her. She'll keep this up until birth.
You should have had your first two ultrasound scans by the end of this week. A dating scan is offered between 11 weeks and 13 weeks plus six days. And a nuchal translucency scan, which checks whether your baby is likely have Down's syndrome, is offered between 11 weeks plus two days and 14 weeks plus one day. If you are over 35, have a look at our article on how age affects pregnancy.
Note: Every baby develops differently. This page is designed to give a general idea of how a fetus grows in the uterus.
Last reviewed: August 2009
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Hadlock FP, Yogesh PS, Kanon DJ, Lindsey JV. 1992. Fetal crown-rump length: Re-evaluation of relation to menstrual age (5-18 weeks) with high-resolution real-time US. Radiology 182(2):501-5
Hill M. 2009. Development week by week. University of New South Wales Embryology. embryology.med.unsw.edu.au [Accessed August 2009]
Medline. 2009. Fetal development. Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia. www.nlm.nih.gov [Accessed August 2009]
Visembryo. 2006. Pregnancy timeline. The Visible Embryo. www.visembryo.com [Accessed August 2009]


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Leo Teal
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Leo Teal is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a minor antagonist, as he helped ambush the drug deal, in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Teal resides in Vice City and works as a chef and as a hitman on behalf of Mr. Black and the Cubans.
Character history
At some point prior to late 1986 Teal began to work as a chef in Ocean Beach, Vice City while also moonlighting as a hitman for Mr. Black. The Vice City Police Department correctly suspect he has links to Black and works as a hitman, also believing him to be involved in the narcotics trade, but have been unable to tap his telephone due to Teal being a communications expert. Teal's police file describes his personal life as "very complicated" and he is involved in "dubious practices" with Moweesha and a manatee, as well as interior designer and restaurant owner Eugene.
At the start of the game, Teal is hired by Ricardo Diaz (possibly through Mr. Black's contact) along with two other unknown men to attack a drug deal between the Vance brothers and representatives of the Forelli Family, Tommy Vercetti, Ken Rosenberg, Harry and Lee. The attack is somewhat successful as Teal and the other two men manage to obtain the drugs and the money, as well as killing Victor Vance, Harry and Lee, but nonetheless Tommy, Ken and Lance Vance manage to get away.
Tommy eventually discovers Teal's involvment in the ambushed deal through informant Kent Paul and confronts him in the alley behind the restaurant where Teal works. Leo attempts to fight off Tommy, but he is ultimately killed. After this, Tommy takes Teal's cell phone and begins working for Mr. Black while posing as Teal.
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- Believed to be working as a hitman in Vice City.
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- Leo Teal was originally meant to appear in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. He would have given out 5 unknown missions, but was cut from the final version of the game for unknown reasons.


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Engineer Gonsalves Rutakyamirwa, a Municipal water engineer for Kinondoni has seen two very bad rains in the last three decades of his stay in Dar es Salaam.
First, it was in 1978 January, when he was at Mzizima Primary School. At the time, rains wrecked havoc and covered the entire Jangwani grounds and he says they could not even see the goal posts that once stood out on the vast playing field as they were immersed in water.' It was like an ocean at Jangwani. It was only after two days that we started to see the goal posts again," he says.
It surprised him that people returned to live in the same area when the floods subsided. Three decades on, bigger rains flooded Dar es Salaam, this time affecting more areas across the city towards the end of last year.
"Recently, when heavy rains inundated Dar es Salaam and displaced people from the same area of Jangwani, it was a sad replay of the same memories," he says.
Dar es Salaam recently got its heaviest rainfall in more than half a century, leaving at least 23 dead and displacing 5,000 people, some of whom have already been allocated alternative areas by the government at Mabwepande in Bunju.
Today, Eng Rutakyamirwa, is the man responsible for the provision of water services for domestic use for the recent flood victims who were resettled by the government at Bunju.
To ease the relocation and resettlement plans for the 300 families, Ophir Energy made an emergency response in January through their donation of 30 water storage tanks with a total capacity of 150,000 litres worth over 18m/-.
"The donation of the tanks was extremely timely since the government had just completed its estimates for relocation requirements and established that a minimum of 20 tanks would be needed to provide easy access to water, "the Engineer said.
The tanks were handed over to the Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner, Sadik Meck Sadiki at Mabwepande, as a response to the government's call for assistance for the effective resettlement of the flood victims.
The RC reiterated by saying that, "Over 2000 families are being relocated here; and a reliable supply of clean water is essential to their survival." He was touched by Ophir's gesture, noting that water is life and that the donation was critical in preventing epidemics and generally improving the quality of life for the relocated persons. He lauded the company for seeing the need to support this noble cause by giving even before it had started earning from its operations. "Very few investors would do that," he said.
Eng. Rutakyamirwa said, "The flood victims were relocated after it was confirmed that the tanks had indeed been procured that would ensure the supply readily accessible clean water to within 100m of each family dwelling..
Ophir, which opened its offices in the country in 2009, is a UK listed group of companies with oil and gas exploration assets in a number of African locations with the main location in Africa being Tanzania, where in 2010/2011,it carried out a highly successful offshore exploration campaign in the waters off Southern Tanzania.
The company is currently carrying out seismic work offshore in a new area, recently acquired through a Joint Venture with Ras al Khaimah Gas, and it is hoped that this will facilitate further drilling in late 2012.
Having listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2011, Ophir is now considering listing on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange to further demonstrate its long-term commitment to Tanzania.
The tanks it donated, Eng Rutakyamirwa says, have been put under use in a temporary water system before DAWASCO can place more permanent fittings to run the water system.
"The tanks have brought the service closer to the people and made water available to all the homesteads," he says
He says the area is set to receive 600 more families. "We have already received 300 families. Others who are temporarily living with their relatives will also be resettled here."
In interviews with different families in the area, it is evident that when their homes were swept away by the December floods, the world around them collapsed and life as they had once known it had drastically changed.
Now living at Bunju, Amina Mohammed Said, a mother of 4 says that when she came, there were fears of how they would access water, but that now has changed after Ophir's donation.
"The water tanks are with us on the plots and we get clean water throughout," she says
The Engineer says a recent meeting at the Ministry of Water resolved that in two months time, there will be a mid term water system in place but that in four months, a permanent system will have been put in place by DAWASCO. "At that time, tanks will sit on a laiser," he says
He adds, "The Ophir tanks will be closer to the people and this will also enable them increase storage."
Water from 10km to 50m
Perhaps, the best example of how the victims' water story has improved peoples' lives is Salima Musa, a 43-year-old mother who has lived in the area since 2003.
"I had a big water problem as we used to get water from the Mpigi area, which is over 10 km away. We used to go at night because during day there were usually long queues but thanks to Ophir, water is much closer now" she says
Among the hundreds of beneficiaries is Benjamin Samson, 44 who is a father to seven children. He was displaced from Ilala Mchikichini (Bonde la Msimbazi). He says the tanks have brought them a good service because they use the water for all their chores.
In fact, Samson says, many of their colleagues they left behind at Mchikichini want to come and join them because all the basic services are all in closer proximity.
Another beneficiary, Zawadi Mganza has 4 children. "Had we no water in this new area, it would have been hard for us to live," she says
The Chairman to one block of 18 families Eliya Sadock (42) with five children says that since the tanks came, they have helped them a lot in water storage for all their families. "Once the water in one tank is done for the day, they have the option to resort to another tank with water," he says
He wanted to know whether the tanks would be transferred elsewhere once they get tap water but he was told that the tanks would not move and it was now their property.
His neighbor Epimack Vumivumi 47, added that the usage of water is high in the area as the population is growing.
And for Eng. Rutakyamirwa, the challenge would be in ensuring that the local government keeps enough water in the tanks to sustain sufficient supplies.


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Brother HL 3040 Printer Review
The Brother HL 3040 is a color multifunction printer designed for a small or medium sized office that wants a compact printer that still delivers quality prints at a fast rate. The Brother HL 3040 has duty cycle of as much as 25,000 pages per month, which make it easily capable of handling the workload of a small to medium sized office.
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I used to play Ateil, but after a series of events I took an extended leave from the game. How have things change?
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Skamania Lodge Recommends You Visit the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center
Just a short walk from Skamania Lodge you will find a must see when visiting Skamania County – The Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center. The center is filled with the history of Skamania County and the Columbia River Gorge. Its mission is to bring to life the human stories and natural history of one of our nation's most compelling landscapes.
The Skamania County Historical Society will assemble, collect, preserve, exhibit and make available for future generations any and all historical data, information and artifacts, obtained for the education and enjoyment of Skamania County and Columbia River Gorge residents and visitors.
Explore over a dozen distinct exhibits including First Peoples – The Cascade Chinook, Clahclehlah and the Corridor of Commerce, Turning Point and Natural History of the Gorge.
The museum is open daily from 10:00am until 5:00pm (closed New Years Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day).
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A Williamston man died Sunday, the day after the SUV he was riding in flipped over after hitting the brick steps of a church, a guy wire to a utility pole and a parked church van, according to the Highway Patrol.
First Sgt. M.W. Warren with the Highway Patrol says 28-year-old Ronald Everett from Williamston died Sunday at Vidant Medical Center. He was in the front seat of the SUV that wrecked Saturday just south of Lewiston in Bertie County.
Warren says 24-year-old Tremayne Smallwood of Windsor lost control of his 2014 Chevrolet SUV on while headed south on Highway 308 around 4:40 p.m. Saturday. The SUV crossed the centerline and ran off the road to the left. The vehicle then hit the brick steps of Mt. Olive Baptist Church, a guy wire to a utility pole and then a van parked in the church parking lot. Smallwood's SUV flipped over and came to rest upside down.
According to Warren, charges are pending against Smallwood, and speed was a factor in the deadly crash. Another person, 23-year-old Behaiah Urquhart from Ahoskie, was in the backseat. He also survived.
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I've never even successfully flirted with someone I've liked , so my challenge is finding mutual interest. Also considering I don't want to have sex in somebody's parent's house or my parents house it's 99.9% not happening anytime soon.
I've been sexually active for a couple of years but recently it started to hurt too much to have sex. I went to the doctor and she diagnosed me with vulvodynia. It was really hard on me since my fiancé and I are very active, it made me feel like I was less of a woman and that I was being punished for finally having an amazing sex life(which I had never had before being with my fiancé). At first it seemed like the treatment wasn't working at all, my doctor prescribed lidocaine to numb the area. It's gotten much better in the last month and I really hope it's gone for good. Most cases of vulvodynia takes years of treatment just for the pain to improve.
I'm female-bodied and attracted to guys, but I am genderqueer and only feel comfortable in men's clothes, so my biggest challenge is finding a guy who accepts that about me. So far, I've only had one sexual relationship, with someone I liked but found completely unattractive and so didn't enjoy sex with. And even he kept asking me to wear women's clothes because he was attracted to my body, but hated the way I dress. At least he liked that I don't remove any of my body hair, though...I mean come on, when am I even going to find that again?
My biggest challenge was none of the above. I feel like I am ready for sex, or at least a relationship that could lead to sex. However, the challenge is that I have not been able to find anyone who is interested in participating in said relationship with me. For the longest time I was insecure about that because I felt I was too old never to have had a boyfriend or any kind of sex- outside of masturbation(even though I am only 19). Now, however I am fine with it. It will happen when it happens. The most important relationship I have and can ever have is with myself. So I would not call this a "challenge" per se, it is just the reason I have never had any type of partnered sex.
I feel I am ready. My challenge is finding the right partner to introduce me to it. I have someone I really like. He is older, sweet, kind and caring. But he is my older sister's boyfriend.
A huge number of reasons: I'm an introvert and I don't know how I would actually even manage to get a boyfriend. Then, another huge obstacle is that the society I live in frowns on sex before marriage, and dating is also done in secret so as to 'protect the family honour'. Archaic, yes.
And then there's this problem of mine where I haven't been able to have any really good orgasms yet. I don't even know whether the slight spasms in my vagins are real orgasms. So if I have a sexual life, I may end up disappointing him.
i'm too shy and introverted, so i worry that i wont be able to please my girlfriend or that i'll be ready for sex, and i have no idea how my own body works or what i like. i try exploring myself but i feel like it's not really doing anything for me or that i'm not learning anything so it's frustrating. add in that i'm too scared to stick anything inside myself (even though it's been done before and didn't hurt), and i make up one big mess.
I was a virgin and my boyfriend is more experienced. A lot of his girlfriends in the past were also experienced. I feel so stupid and clueless. I feel like I'm sometimes still in pain and I feel nervous so I can't orgasm and because I'm in pain I do not enjoy it as much as he does. I just feel like a disappointment. Like I just don't know what I'm doing and I'm not as good at sex as his past partners.
You know that none of his previous partners could have walked into sex with him knowing what he likes either, right? They could only have known what their previous partners liked, which may or may not have been what he did.
Have you asked him to clue you in some more? The way any of us -- no matter our level of sexual experience -- learn what we and our partners like is by communicating, experimenting, and communicating some more. That's it, I promise. It also sounds like being honest with him about how you're feeling, if you haven't been yet, might lighten your load a whole lot.
And by all means, if you're having pain from any kind of sex, staying in pain -- rather than taking a break to figure out what's wrong -- is...well, the way to stay in pain and also feel pretty awful emotionally. So, do check in with a sexual healthcare provider, and if the pain is with vaginal entry or other genital intercourse, see if this doesn't help you out:
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After a couple of years as a sexually active person, I'm finding that I want to step back and "relax" a little, take time to figure out what I really want, but I struggle to feel that this is okay. I feel like the attitude is "once you've done it, you should keep at it or you have let yourself down and succumbed to conservative, neo-puritan values".
Wanting to take a break from sexual activity is perfectly okay. Don't ever let someone tell you that since you're not a virgin you just have to keep doing it or else something is wrong with you. This is a choice I have also made for myself. I wasn't ready to start having sex at 17, but I did anyway. At 20, I decided to refrain from sexual activity. I'm now 24 and I realize that it was the best decision I could've made for myself and not a day goes by that I'm not thankful for this "freedom". I've found my true self by really taking the time to get to know ME.I know what I want, where I'm going and how to get there. I believe that is one of the greatest gifts a person could give themselves. Do what's right for you! Happy trailblazing.
My greatest challenge is finding a sexual partner of my preferred gender in the first place. It's so impossible and depressing. Five years single and counting, and not for lack of trying.
I haven't met or gotten to know someone that I want to have sex with. It doesn't help that I'm very shy and don't meet a lot of people.
One of the biggest problems with my sexual life, and really my whole relationship with my boyfriend is the fact that we have the hardest time getting time for each other at all, much less any sort of sexual experimentation. We're both each other's firsts and don't want to start things off in the backseat of a car. We want to find a safe space for the both of us where we can take our time so no one gets hurt and it's most beneficial to us. Unfortunately, we both have conservative parents (in fact, he isn't supposed to even have a girlfriend, as his family is Muslim) in the sexual department so that safe space we want is pretty much non-existent. So we're waiting until we both finish college and move out, which will be in a couple years, but god it's so hard waiting.
aside from my vote: my biggest challenge is keeping my sex life a secret, particularly from my family because they are pretty conservative. It's really sad because I'm so close to them and I want to talk about it. Only a few of my friends know. I have no shame or guilt, but aside that I think this can be personal, it doesn't help that I'm trying to keep it a secret from the people I supposedly trust the most. :(
Very similar to the two anons with vaginismus.
There are not many queer people where i live, including zero who i'm interested in. I'm trans & queer, so while i might be able to get involved with a select few straight people (if there was mutual interest), it'd be more than a little uncomfortable.
I have a problem where I can go months without being sexually aroused or wanting sex. Even when using stimuli I feel nothing. It sucks, because I have a partner with a high sex drive and mine in non existent.
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The Joomla! Bug Squad (JBS) is a team within the production working group. Their job is to identify and fix bugs in Joomla. This includes the following:
- Scan the Joomla! Bug Reporting Forum and Joomla! 1.6 Beta Bug Reporting Forum for reported issues and help community members with solving these issues.
- Maintaining the [Version 1.5 Bug Tracker] and [Version 1.6 Issue Tracker] .
- Fix reported bugs and resolve reported issues according to the Bug Tracking Process.
The Bug Squad is also supporting with testing and quality assurance when a new major or minor version is developed. Generally speaking the bug-squad is in the lead when a version switches from beta-stage to the stable-stage within the development cycle of Joomla!
The Bug Squad was created in December 2007. As of May 2010, JBS has been organised into the following teams:
- Tracker Team - monitors the forums and trackers
- Coding Team - creates patches for Confirmed Issues
- Testing Team - tests Pending issues
- Automated Testing Team - creates automated system and unit tests for tracker issues
- Migration / Upgrade Team - responsible for supporting migration and upgrading from the prior version to the current version.
These teams are not rigid, and JBS members can participate in whatever activities they wish. The purpose of the teams is to make it easier for JBS members to focus their efforts and learn the skills required to successfully contribute to the project.
If you are a member of the JBS, you might also like to join the JBS group at people.joomla.org.
Tracker Team
This team has the very important and sometimes difficult job of filtering all of the forum posts and bug reports and sorting out which ones are real bugs that are ready to be worked on. From the standpoint of the tracker, their job is to move issues from Open status to Confirmed status. Of course, many issues will also be put into other status codes, including Information Required, Needs Review, Duplicate, Not a Bug, and so on.
Before an issue is marked Confirmed, it needs to be reproduced and documented so that others can reproduce the problem.
The Tracker Team should also make sure the issue has the correct Type and Priority. Remember, many users reporting bugs are not familiar with all of the fields and terminology. In many cases, this could be the user's first contribution or interaction with the project.
It is critically important that all JBS members follow the Code of Conduct and show courtesy and respect in all tracker comments. Remember, we are the ambassadors of the Joomla! project, and the way we behave reflects on the whole project. People will naturally be unhappy if an issue they report is not taken seriously or if they feel that it was closed improperly. So we need to be sensitive to that fact, while of course making the what we believe to be the correct decision. For example, if you close an issue as Not a Bug, please put a comment in telling the reporter why in a nice way.
Also, if someone is not following the Code of Conduct in a tracker comment, please point this out in a respectful way and remind the person that we need to follow the CoC at all times. If there is a persistent problem, please let your Team Leader or a JBS Coordinator know so we can take action. We absolutely do not want to tolerate rude or disrespectful behavior in the tracker or forum.
For more information see the Tracker Team page.
Coding Team
The coding team works with Confirmed issues and creates patches to correct these issues if they haven't already been provided. When a patch is completed, and when a test plan has been added that tells the testers how to test the patch, the issue is changed to Pending status.
Many times the first patch submitted for an issue will not be the actual patch that is committed to the SVN. There are many reasons for this. Someone else may have a different approach to the solving the issue, a tester might find a problem, or the person who submitted the patch will think of a better way to do it.
It is important to be positive and flexible and not expect that every patch you submit will go straight into the SVN. That does not mean the work is not helpful or valuable. In many cases, it is not possible to get to the end result without going through one or more tries.
For more information see the Bug Squad Coding Team page.
Testing Team
This team tests Pending issues and, when tests are successful, documents this and moves the issue to Ready to Commit status. At this point, one of the JBS coordinators will commit the patch to the SVN.
Over time, we plan to include more automated testing into the process. Eventually, we would like every Ready to Commit issue have both a code patch and an automated system or unit test. Accordingly, it will be important for members of the testing team to be learning how to write and use system tests.
There are some tips for testing in the wiki in the Testing Checklists article.
Automated Testing Team
Automated testing is a key technology that we will incorporate into the workings of JBS. At the present, this is a somewhat specialized skill, so we will start by developing a separate team of people who are familiar with this and can help write automated tests and train other JBS members on automated testing. Our aim is to eventually make automated testing a routine part of fixing issues.
For more information see the Automated Testing Team page.
Migration / Upgrade Team
This team is responsible for coding and documenting the upgrade process for users migrating sites or extensions from one version to the next (for example, from version 1.5 to 1.6). They will be responsible for creating and fixing issues in this area of the code.
- Joomla! Bug Squad Coordinators
- Andrew Eddie
- Mark Dexter
- To request to join the Bug Squad
- Mark Dexter
- Tracker Team Leaders
- to be announced
- Coding Team Leaders
- Omar Ramos
- Testing Team Leaders
- Marijke Stuivenberg
- Automated Testing Team Leaders
- to be announced