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SHEPHERDSTOWN Traditionally, Eastern Panhandle swimmers would be preparing for the Region II meet at Fairmont State University.
Region II has found a new home at Shepherd University's Wellness Center for this year's swim meet. The eight-lane pool will host the event at 11 a.m. today.
Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for students.
Teams include host Jefferson, Hedgesville, Hampshire, Martinsburg, Musselman and Washington, along with Fairmont, Preston, North Marion, East Fairmont and Doddridge County. Bids to the state swim meet are up for grabs.
"This is like a home meet for all of us in the Eastern Panhandle," said Jefferson butterfly specialist Kaley Hoffman said. "We hope to break out some of our best times in this meet."
The Polar Bears swept the regional championship in 2012, but Jefferson is hopeful that 2013 can be its year. The Cougars overcame a mass amount of sickness during the Eastern Panhandle Championships two weeks ago.
Jefferson's boys will be led by Keegan Simmons, who has numerous high rankings in the state. He is sixth in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 22.73 seconds, sixth in the 100 free at 49.57, seventh in the 200 individual medley at 2 minutes, 5.63 seconds and third in the 100 backstroke at 55.81. Simmons will be swimming in the 200 free (ninth in the state at 1:52.98) and the 100 butterfly (eighth in the state at 55.30), tops in Region II.
Luisa Holland will lead the Jefferson girls team. She ranks fifth in the state in the 100 breaststroke at 1:12.03 and eighth in the 200 IM at 2:21.55.
Washington goes into the meet having had a successful season. Given the brevity of seniors on the team, the Patriots should do well in the future.
"We, as a team, are excited for regionals," Washington's Ian Macleod said. "A lot of us still have plenty of time left, and we overcame some sickness, but our future as a program is bright."
The Patriot boys will look to Shawn Gee, who is ranked eighth in the 100 backstroke with a 58.21 and 15th in the 100 free at 51.50, and Derek Carson, who is ranked 24th in the 500 free at 5:33.59 and 17th in the 100 breast at 1:09.32.
Mikaela Payne and Emma Bryan, lead the Washington girls. Payne is ranked 31st in the 500 free with a 6:09.76 and Bryan, who signed to swim for West Virginia Wesleyan, is unranked in both the 200 and 500 free events.
Hedgesville came out of the Eastern Panhandle Championships feeling pretty good after defeating Jefferson in the 200 free relay for the first relay win against the Cougars in Eagles coach James Miller's tenure.
"To be able to beat their team in a relay is a huge confidence boost for our swimmers," Miller said. "It's a huge monkey off our back, but with that comes knowing that Jefferson will be back to face us in the regional meet.
"We have gone from just another team in the panhandle to being a good team in just a few years."
The Eagles overall rely on the same drive that helped them succeed in the Eastern Panhandle Championships.
Courtney Layhew is ranked 25th in the 50 free at 27.55 and 29th in the 100 free at 1:00.83, an Eastern Panhandle Championship record. Sabrina Buhagiar, ranked 21st in the 100 back also set an EPC record with a 1:09.05. She's 23rd in the 200 free at 2:12.41. Christian Gomez leads the Eagle boys.
"We just don't want to let up," Miller said. "We can keep mentally pushing for faster times as being happy with the times we had in the Eastern Panhandle Championships will not help."
Musselman enters the regional meet after seeing its confidence boost.
"We are confident moving forward into this meet," swimmer Caleb Hutzler said. "Jefferson and Washington are tough competition, but if we can pick up our relays and individuals, we can make it to the state meet."
The 2011 regional champion Applemen boys will be led by seniors Jacob Brumbaugh, who is ranked 26th in the 100 fly at 1:02.18 and Adam Cox (29th in the 200 IM). The girls will be led by senior Christina Grace.
Martinsburg, which is small in numbers, and Hampshire, competing in its second regional meet and first full season as a program, look to take swimmers to Morgantown for the state meet.
In the boys meet, Martinsburg will look to Andy Calo to be a state qualifier. Hampshire will turn to Josh Slocum, the team's lone qualifier last season and the first to reach the state meet in Trojans history. The Bulldog girls will look to Becca DeBord and Maggie Nevin to reach the state meet, while the Trojans will look to find their first female qualifier.


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Family run vacation lodging ideal for relaxing & budget holidays by the beach in western Crete. Conveniently located on the edge of the historical sea side village of Maleme, Summer Lodge, an attractive accommodation unit, is a fine example of traditional Greek architecture. Only 5 Kms from the centre of Platanias and 16 Kms west of Hania town, is the ideal starting point for the visitors requiring a wide variety of sandy beaches, water sport activities, peaceful countryside walks, or interesting visits in archeological and historical sites.
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Summer Lodge is located 16 kms west of Hania town by the old costal road and there is frequent bus service to the airports CHQ & HER as well as to the ports of Hania & Heraklion.
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Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
FOH Field Operations Handbook
Chapter 64 Employment of Workers with Disabilities at Special Minimum Wages under Section 14(c)
Section 64g Issues Requiring Special Attention
Section 64g03: Prevailing Wages
- Determining the prevailing wage is the first step toward establishing the correct commensurate wage. The prevailing wage is the wage paid experienced workers who do not have disabilities in the vicinity performing essentially the same type of work (see Regulations 29 CFR Part 525.10(a)). An employer must be able to demonstrate that the prevailing wage rate used to determine a commensurate wage was objectively determined. Normally, prevailing wage rates are based on the results of surveys conducted by the employer holding the section 14(c) certificate.
- The prevailing wage survey must be conducted prior to paying a SMW. It then must be reviewed and updated at least once a year - more frequently
when a change in the prevailing wage has most likely occurred (such as when the FLSA section 6(a)(1) MW has increased). Prevailing wage surveys
are conducted in the same manner regardless of the employer's method of payments - piece rate, hourly wage, salary, etc.
- Prior to the effective dates of the last two increases in the MW, the Child Labor and Special Employment Team, NO/OEP has reminded all certificate holders, by letter, of the requirements of reviewing and adjusting prevailing wage rates.
- It is the intention of the NO to continue this notification process for any future increases in the MW.
- The prevailing wage is not an entry-level wage or a training wage, but the wage rate paid experienced employees after completion of any training or probationary periods. An experienced worker is one who has learned the basic elements or requirements of the work to be performed, ordinarily by completion of a probationary or training period. Typically, such a worker will have received at least one pay raise after successful completion of the probationary or training period (see Regulations 29 CFR Part 525.3(k)).
- The prevailing wage may not be lower than the applicable statutory minimum wage as established by section 6(a)(1) of the FLSA, or where applicable, a higher State minimum wage. Employers must ensure that the wage rates they are quoted when conducting the prevailing wage survey meet this criteria.
- To conduct a survey, the employer must obtain wage information for each job classification being performed by workers to be paid a SMW. A brief
job description should be prepared. This job description will also be important when conducting time studies and will assist the INV in determining
compliance. The job description should:
- define the specific job duties, responsibilities and tasks;
- include types of equipment and supplies used to perform the tasks;
- list types of skills, education or experience levels required; and
- indicate the location, and days and times of the week the work is to be performed.
- The employer should obtain wage data from comparable firms in the area. The appropriate size of the sample - the number of firms surveyed - will
depend on the number of firms doing similar work, but normally should include no less than three (see Regulations 29 CFR Part 525.10(c)).
- The information should be solicited from comparable businesses employing primarily workers who do not have disabilities performing similar work in the vicinity where the worker with a disability is employed (see Regulations 29 CFR Part 525.10(c)). A comparable business is one that either employs a similar number of employees or competes for contracts of a similar size and nature.
- If similar work cannot be found in the area defined by the geographic labor market (the vicinity), the closest comparable community should be used (see Regulations 29 CFR Part 525.10(c)). When this is not possible, the employer has two options:
- The employer may obtain wage information from sources other than comparable businesses as long as the data obtained reflects non-entry level wage rates. Examples of other sources of wage information might be the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), State employment services, temporary help firms, and private employment services.
- The employer may identify the general characteristics of the job to obtain a generic job description and search for employers whose work has similar characteristics. For example, such job comparisons might be made as follows: skilled, semiskilled or unskilled; light duty or heavy duty; and either handwork or machine-assisted. Using these comparisons, a generic job description could, for example, be unskilled, light duty, hand benc assembly, or semi-skilled, machine-assisted packaging.
- There are special situations in which an employer is not required to conduct a survey to determine the prevailing wage.
- If an employer's workforce consists primarily of workers who do not have disabilities, the employer is not required to do a survey.
- Instead, the employer may use as the prevailing wage rate the rate he or she pays to his or her experienced workers who do not have disabilities who perform similar work. Similarly, if an agency or facility places a worker with a disability on the premises of such an employer, the wage paid to the employer's experienced workers who do not have disabilities may be used as the prevailing wage (see Regulations 29 CFR Part 525.10(b)).
- Should an employer whose workforce consists primarily of workers who do not have disabilities choose to perform a prevailing wage survey (rather than adopt as prevailing the established wage rate already being paid his or her experienced workers), WH requires that the employer include the wage data from his or her own firm when conducting the survey and computing the prevailing wage. This is because the employer's own wage data would most perfectly comport with the requirement of Regulations 29 CFR Part 525 that the commensurate wage be based upon the wage rate paid to experienced workers who do not have disabilities performing essentially the same type, quality and quantity of work in the vicinity in which the individual earning the SMW is employed. To ignore the employer's own data in such situations would unfairly ignore the employer's impact on the wages being paid in the vicinity.
- If the section 14(c) employer has a subcontract to perform a job in essentially the same way and with the same type of equipment as the
prime contractor, the section 14(c) employer may use the wage rate the prime contractor pays to his or her experienced workers as the prevailing wage rate.
- The INV should compare the job methods and equipment used by employees of the section 14(c) employer with those of the contractor to determine if there is a difference. If a difference is discovered, the INV must determine whether the difference is great enough to change the characteristics of the work performed. If the characteristics of the work have changed (such as changes in the type of product produced or the process used to produce the product), the contractor's wage may no longer be the appropriate prevailing wage.
- If the prime contractor discontinues the job by subcontracting all the work to the section 14(c) employer, the section 14(c) employer must conduct a prevailing wage rate survey.
- If an employer's workforce consists primarily of workers who do not have disabilities, the employer is not required to do a survey.
- The employer must maintain the following documentation regarding prevailing wage surveys (see Regulations 29 CFR Part 525.10(g)):
- Date of contact with firm or other source.
- Name, address, and phone number of firm or other source.
- Name and title of individual contacted within the firm or other source.
- Wage rate information provided by firm or other source.
- Brief description of work for which wage information was provided.
- Basis for the conclusion that the wage rate was not based upon an entry-level position.
- After obtaining at least three wages rates (see Regulations 29 CFR Part 525.10(c)), the employer must average them to determine the prevailing wage for a particular job. The employer may use either a weighted or simple average so long as he or she is consistent. See the following example:
Weighted Average vs. Simple Average Employer No. of EEs Wage Rate Reported Gross Wages
(#EEs X Wage)
Weighted Average: $835.30 / 141 employees = $5.92411 or $5.93* Straight Average: $18.00 / 3 employers = $6.00 *Note that in this example the prevailing wage rate is $5.92411, but the employer rounded it up to $5.93 per hour. If the employer rounded to $5.92, he or she would be establishing a prevailing wage rate that is less than the true prevailing wage rate (less by $0.0041 per hour). WH will not normally question computations that are carried out to the fifth decimal point and then rounded up to four decimal places. The employer could, of course round up (but not merely round off) sooner. For example, .04974 should be rounded to .0498 or .05 (see FOH 64g06(f)(1)). XYZ, Inc 99 $5.85 $579.15 ABC, Inc 17 $5.95 $101.15 RST, Inc 25 $6.20 $155.00 3 employers 141 employees $18.00 $835.30
- Evaluating employer's prevailing wage rates.
- The INV should review the prevailing wage survey data requested during the initial conference and use his or her knowledge of wage rates in
the area to evaluate the wages contained in the survey.
- If the section 6(a)(1) MW is cited as a prevailing wage, the INV should verify that the employer has sufficient documentation to prove that the MW was the rate being paid experienced workers, rather than entry level workers (see Regulations 29 CFR Part 525.3(k)).
- Should the INV question the accuracy of the employer's prevailing rate, he or she should contact the employer's sources of wage information to verify the validity of the rates listed, the accuracy of the work descriptions, and to confirm that the rates are not for entry level work. When conducting these calls, the INV must take care that the sources contacted are not left with an impression that the employer with the SMW certificate has violated the FLSA.
- The INV should be aware that there might be more than one "correct" prevailing wage in the same vicinity. Depending on sources and the methodology (such as whether a simple or weighted average was used) two employers in the same vicinity may obtain slightly different rates. The range should be fairly narrow. A prevailing wage rate that differs only slightly from others in the same vicinity should not be challenged provided the employer supplies documentation to demonstrate that he or she conducted the survey in a thorough and conscientious manner.
- Employers sometimes make arbitrary adjustments in the prevailing wage to account for differences in duties, methods, equipment and responsibilities between the work done by section 14(c) employees and work done by employees who do not have disabilities in competitive industry. This practice, known as "de-skilling," is not permitted. If comparable jobs cannot be found, prevailing wage data should be collected on jobs requiring the same general skill levels. The following is an example of de-skilling:
- Assume that the properly determined prevailing wage for packaging-by-hand is $8.00 and that the hand packing job performed in competitive industry normally includes the following steps: counting bolts, placing a label on the bag the bolts go in, putting 10 bolts into the labeled bag, putting 24 filled bags into a box for packing and then sealing the box.
- De-skilling occurs when the employer lowers the prevailing wage because the workers with disabilities do not perform all components of the job that was surveyed. The workers with disabilities may not perform all components of the job because of the manner in which the work was assigned, because they are unable to or refuse to perform certain of the work components, or the particular contract being performed does not require all of the components. An example of de-skilling would be when the employer, for whatever reason, decided that labeling the bags is not as difficult as counting 10 bolts and therefore the SMW of an employee who only performed labeling should be based on a prevailing wage of $7.25 an hour rather than $8.00. The same would be true if the employer decided that the SMW of an employee who only sealed the boxes should be based on a prevailing wage of $7.50 an hour.
- De-skilling is an inappropriate adjustment to the prevailing wage that adversely impacts the commensurate wage. Some employers may also attempt to improperly reduce commensurate rates when evaluating the performance of workers with disabilities by penalizing them for not performing all components of a job. This process, known as factoring, is discussed in FOH 64j02(b)(2)b1B.
- If the INV finds the information obtained by the section 14(c) employer unacceptable, or if the employer failed to conduct a prevailing wage survey, the INV should request the employer to perform the survey (following the procedures and guidelines found in this section of the FOH). The INV will then review the results of the new survey. Should the employer decline to conduct a new prevailing wage survey, the INV will conduct the survey. Documentation of the survey conducted by the INV must be included in the case file. The INV shall also determine if the employees with disabilities are due back wages because of the firm's failure to properly determine the prevailing wage.
- The INV should review the prevailing wage survey data requested during the initial conference and use his or her knowledge of wage rates in the area to evaluate the wages contained in the survey.


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Knowledge liberates the mind and only a society that is able to devise mediums, methods and strategies to propagate knowledge and educate its every single member can hope to provide its present and future generations an environment of growth, dignity, respect and constructive development. While the ICFAI University, Dehradun has come a long way since its inception, it has to keep pace with the changing needs and expectations of the society. >>>
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Clinical UM Guideline
|Ketogenic Diet for Treatment of Intractable Seizures
|Guideline #:
|Current Effective Date:
|Last Review Date:
This document addresses the use of a ketogenic diet to treat seizures. The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-protein, low-carbohydrate diet which has been used for the treatment of uncontrolled seizures.
|Clinical Indications
Medically Necessary:
The use of a ketogenic diet for children and teenagers with seizures refractory to antiepileptic drugs is considered medically necessary.
Not Medically Necessary:
The use of a ketogenic diet for all other indications is considered not medically necessary.
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|ICD-10 Diagnosis
|[For dates of service on or after 10/01/2015]
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|Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures, intractable
|Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptics syndromes with complex partial seizures, intractable
|Generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, intractable
|Absence epileptic syndrome, intractable
|Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, intractable
|Other generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, intractable
|Other epilepsy, intractable
|Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, intractable
|Epileptic spasms, intractable
|Other seizures
|Epilepsy, unspecified, intractable
|ICD-9 Diagnosis
|[For dates of service prior to 10/01/2015]
|Epilepsy and recurrent seizures
|Discussion/General Information
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, low-protein diet that has been used to treat seizures. The diet has a 4:1 ratio of fats to carbohydrates. The composition of the diet induces ketosis, a physiologic state in which circulating ketone bodies are used as the primary fuel source in the absence of simple sugars. Ketosis is thought to inhibit seizures, although the mechanism is unknown. The ketogenic diet is quite restrictive, requiring the cooperation of the individual, family and an appropriately trained dietician. The diet may be initiated in the inpatient or outpatient setting. In the inpatient setting, children are admitted to the hospital and fasted for one to two days. The diet is then instituted gradually over a number of days. The main reason for hospitalization is to monitor the period of initial fasting, which exposes children to metabolic derangements and dehydration. In a study by Kossoff (2008), it was reported that individuals who responded to the diet, did so quickly (often within one to two weeks), but universally within the first two months. In children in whom the seizures are not improved after two months, the study suggests a regular diet could be reintroduced and other treatment options considered.
Published data shows that some children benefit from the ketogenic diet, as demonstrated by a significant reduction in seizure frequency. A meta-analysis by Henderson and colleagues (2006) supports the current uncontrolled case series reporting on the therapeutic effect of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of seizures in pediatric epileptic individuals. The analysis of 1,084 pooled individuals demonstrated a greater than 50% seizure reduction in individuals who stayed on the ketogenic diet versus those who discontinued the diet.
Neal (2008) studied the effectiveness of a ketogenic diet on intractable seizures in a randomized controlled trial. Of 145 children initially enrolled, 103 completed the study and were included in the final analysis. Dropout reasons varied from changing their mind to diet intolerance. After 3 months of ketogenic diet, the mean percentage of seizures in the 54 children on the diet fell to 62% of baseline. For the 49 children in the control group, seizures increased to 137% of baseline. The authors were surprised by the increase in seizures of the control group. Their most probable explanation is an unusual increase in seizure frequency of three of the children in the control group. When that data was excluded, the seizure frequency increase in the control group over 3 months was only 12%.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (2012) Clinical Guideline on the diagnosis and management of epilepsy concluded that children and young people who have had seizures not responsive to appropriate anti-epileptic drugs should be referred to an epilepsy specialist for consideration of the use of a ketogenic diet. The efficacy and safety of the ketogenic diet in adults has not been well studied or proven.
The ketogenic diet has been initiated in an inpatient setting, primarily to monitor the individual during the initial fasting period, but also to provide the intense education required to maintain a ketogenic diet once discharged. However, recent studies have suggested that the diet can be safely initiated in the outpatient setting. In 2004, Vaisleib and colleagues reported on a case series of 37 individuals who underwent outpatient induction of the ketogenic diet, whose outcomes were compared retrospectively to those who underwent inpatient dietary induction. The mean age of the individuals was 6.6 years, with a range of 1.8 to 14 years. The authors reported that there was no evidence that inpatient initiation of the ketogenic diet was superior to outpatient initiation. Additional studies identified in the literature search focused on the long-term effects of the ketogenic diet on the growth and development of children (Kwiterovich, 2003; Liu, 2003; Marsh, 2006; Vining, 2002), and whether or not the less restrictive Atkins diet, which also produces a mild ketosis, is an option to the ketogenic diet (Kossoff, 2003; Tonekaboni, 2010).
In 2014, Taub and colleagues looked at the records of 276 children who had been initiated on the ketogenic diet. A total of 65 children achieved freedom from seizures for a minimum of one month. The median time to seizure freedom after initiation of ketogenic diet was 1.5 months. Seizures recurred in 53 children with a median time to seizure recurrence of 3 months. The recurrence of seizures was reported as an occasional breakthrough and not a return to baseline seizure frequency.
Although the use of a ketogenic diet is being studied for population groups other than children and teenagers, there is a paucity of peer-reviewed published literature that shows effectiveness in other age groups. Klein (2010) reported on twelve adult participants who underwent initiation of a ketogenic diet. Baseline of the treatment was considered four months. Treatment ranged from 4 days to 26 months. Three participants stopped treatment during the first 4 months. Nine participants continued past the 4 month baseline. Four participants stopped treatment after 7, 8, 24 and 25 months. Of the 12 initial participants, 10 had improved seizures, 1 did not change and 1 worsened. Four out of 12 participants had a greater than 75% reduction in seizures. Five out of 12 participants had a greater than 50% reduction in seizures. Compliance has been an issue with adults using the ketogenic diet. Of those participants who followed the diet past the 4 month baseline, 7 out of 12 participants were fully compliant with the diet, 2 out of 12 participants were moderately and mildly compliant. This study is limited by its small sample size.
Thakur and colleagues (2014) reported a retrospective chart review in which ten adults were started on ketogenic diet for super-refractory status epilepticus. Ninety percent of participants achieved ketosis. For those participants who achieved ketosis, status epilepticus stopped in all of them in a median of three days. Prospective trials are warranted to examine the efficacy of the use of ketogenic diet in adults.
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Government Agency, Medical Society, and Other Authoritative Publications:
|Websites for Additional Information
Ketogenic Diet
|Medical Policy & Technology Assessment Committee (MPTAC) review. Updated Discussion/General Information and References.
|MPTAC review. Updated Discussion/General Information and References.
|MPTAC review. Updated Discussion/General Information.
|MPTAC review. Updated Discussion/General Information and References.
|MPTAC review. Updated Discussion/General Information and References.
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Raising Helen is about a glamorous single Manhattan woman (Hudson, see page 90) who slowly grows up after becoming guardian to two young nieces and a nephew after their parents are killed in a car accident. Our heroine faces many obstacles—the kids misbehave, she loses her job—but all are easily conquerable. And there's always that cute Lutheran pastor (Corbett) lurking in the background wearing a goofy, lovesick smile.
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The non-receptor tyrosine kinase FAK is a major mediator of integrin signaling. Engagement of β1 and αv integrins — but not that of β4 — induces FAK localization to matrix adhesions and activation. Upon autophosphorylation at Tyr 397, FAK combines with Src or another Src Family Kinase (SFK). The SFK in turn phosphorylates FAK and FAK-associated focal adhesion proteins, such as p130Cas, paxillin and p190-Rho-GEF, on tyrosine residues. In addition, FAK can combine with PI-3K and Grb7 and activate the tyrosine kinase Etk/BMX. Through this plethora of effectors, FAK regulates focal adhesion dynamics during cell migration and activates prosurvival and mitogenic signaling pathways.
To examine the role of FAK in mammary tumorigenesis, Yuliya Pylayeva introduced a mammary gland-specific deletion of FAK in MMTV-PyMT mice. These mice develop mammary carcinomas following Middle T oncoprotein-mediated activation of Ras and PI-3K. Yuliya discovered that genetic ablation of FAK completely protects these mice from mammary tumorigenesis. Through genetic experiments in cell culture and mouse models, Yuliya found that FAK supports malignant transformation by promoting mammary tumor cell proliferation, survival, and invasion. Mutational analysis indicated that FAK coordinates these core cellular functions through its interaction with Cas proteins. Interestingly, she also found that the remarkable effects of FAK on mammary oncogenesis are not limited to mouse cells transformed by the Middle T oncoprotein. Upon acute silencing of FAK, Ras-transformed cells lost their invasive ability and became senescent, whereas Neu-transformed cells underwent growth arrest and apoptosis. Human breast cancer cells of diverse origins and carrying distinct oncogenic mutations underwent a similar demise. These results reveal that breast cancer cells are addicted to integrin signaling, identifying a novel vulnerability that can be exploited therapeutically.
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Zorach v. Clauson
|Zorach v. Clauson
|Argued January 31 – February 1, 1952
Decided April 28, 1952
|Full case name
|Zorach, et al. v. Clauson, et al., constituting the Board of Education of the City of New York, et al.
|343 U.S. 306 (more)
72 S. Ct. 679; 96 L. Ed. 954; 1952 U.S. LEXIS 2773
|Prior history
|Appeal from the Court of Appeals of New York
|Released time programs are acceptable if the instruction takes place away from the school campus, for 1 hour per week, and with no public funding.
|Court membership
|Case opinions
|Douglas, joined by Vinson, Reed, Burton, Clark, Minton
|Laws applied
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Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States considered a school district allowing students to leave school for part of the day to receive religious instruction.
New York State law permitted schools to allow some students to leave school during school hours for purposes of religious instruction or practice while requiring others to stay in school. Accordingly, students in New York City were allowed to leave only on written request of their guardians but the schools did not fund or otherwise assist in the development of these programs. The Greater New York Coordinating Committee on Released Time of Jews, Protestants and Roman Catholics shared their attendance with New York City Department of Education to prevent students from playing hooky, however. [1] Several parents sued the district for providing official sanction for religious instruction.
The Supreme Court upheld the arrangement by finding that it did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment or the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because the instruction was not held within the school building and received no public funds. William O. Douglas, writing for the majority, reasoned that "this 'released time' program involves neither religious instruction in public school classrooms nor the expenditure of public funds.... The case is therefore unlike McCollum v. Board of Education."[2]
Three Justices dissented from the decision; Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and Robert H. Jackson considered the law unconstitutional. All three cited McCollum v. Board of Education (1948) and believed that the Court did not adequately distinguish between the circumstances in McCollum and the ones in Zorach. Jackson's dissent was especially strong: "Today's judgment will be more interesting to students of psychology and of the judicial processes than to students of constitutional law."[2]
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- Sorauf, Frank J. (1959). "Zorach v. Clauson: The Impact of a Supreme Court Decision". American Political Science Review. The American Political Science Review, Vol. 53, No. 3. 53 (3): 777–791. doi:10.2307/1951943. JSTOR 1951943.
- ^ Douglas, William O. (28 April 1952). "ZORACH v. CLAUSON". FindLaw. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
- ^ a b Douglas, William O. (28 April 1952). "ZORACH V. CLAUSON". Legal Information Institute. Cornell Law School. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
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When I posted the video the other day of Bryan Fischer calling for everyone to "be a Phinehas in our own world, and in our own generation," I knew that if he responded, it would be to claim that his statement was being distorted.
And that is exactly what he is doing:
The left-wing blogosphere having a veritable tizzy fit over the monologue I did on Phinehas the other day. The video of that, which we have in our archives, has been picked up by some left-wing blogospheres [sic] and is now circulating out there with the headline that I am advocating the cold-blooded murder of people who are caught in flagrante engaging in sexual immorality.
Remember, that was the story about Phinehas, sexual immorality was out of control among the people and he took the step of actually pinning a couple who were in the middle of having sex to the ground with his spear. He was commended for this and turned away the wrath of God from the people.
Now the point that I had made was not the we need people to go out and do exactly what Phinehas did. My point is that we need people with that same kind of courage, the same kind of boldness, the same kind of decisiveness in whatever sphere they happen to be involved in. It's the quality of character, the courage, the decisiveness, and the boldness and the willingness to take action. That was the parallel, of course, that I was drawing, so it's humorous to see the left-wing blogosphere completely distort and misrepresent things that conservatives do, so they're having a little bit of fun with that out in the left-wing blogosphere.
This response is entirely predictable, since this is what Religious Right leaders always say when this sort of issue comes up. Sure, they say, Christians should be like Elijah or Phinehas or Jephthah, but not in the sense that they kill their enemines or children for God; simply that they should have that same sort of dedication and commitment to God.
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Basically, Fischer is saying that Christians need to be bold and decisive and courageous enough that they are willing to kill for God ... but that they should never actually kill for God.
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The Internet is loaded with videos and manuals designed to teach waterfowl hunters the most-effective techniques for training a young Labrador retriever.
Nearly all of them encourage the use of bumpers, the long, soft sticks that hang from the belt of every dog trainer.
But new research indicates those plastic bumpers may not be the best choice.
Researchers at Texas Tech University discovered that bumpers, particularly those that have spent some time in the sun, leach phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA) into the mouths of retrievers.
"I raise and train Labrador retrievers and hunt with them as well," said Phil Smith, an associate professor of terrestrial ecotoxicology at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech. "In the process of training a Lab, you do a lot of work with these plastic bumpers. I have a lot of bumpers in my garage, and they spend a lot of time in the mouths of my retrievers.
"Well, lots of attention has been given to chemicals in plastics lately regarding their effects on humans. Since we all care about our dogs, and we want them to be as healthy and smart and well-behaved as possible, we decided to look into this."
Smith and researcher Kimberly Wooten were alarmed at the findings of their research, which included tests on store-bought dog toys. Phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA) are used to give elasticity to plastic and vinyl and are known endocrine disruptors that mimic estrogen or act as anti-androgens and could lead to negative health effects.
"We found that aging or weathering the toys increased concentrations of BPA and phthalates," Smith said. "The toys had lower concentrations of phthalates than the bumpers, so that's good news. But they also had some other chemicals that mimicked estrogen. We need to find out what those are."
The researchers acknowledged that their findings raise more questions than answers because so little research exists on the long-term effects of these chemicals.
"The whole end-goal was to answer the questions, 'What does this mean for my pet? Is this a concern for our health?'" Wooten said. "We don't have a good answer yet because there's no good data to compare to our findings.
"The interaction of pet health and environmental chemicals is understudied. What may be a safe dose for one species isn't always a good measure for another species. But the amount of BPA and phthalates we found from the bumpers would be considered on the high end of what you might find in children's toys."


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Im sorry!!! I returned from my vacation one week ago and I wasnt able to update my ebay, mildendo´s facebook or web and also the blog😦. I have so many plans😀 but I cannot to concentrate😦. I hope, now when I finished with the preparation for the new school year of my son, I will be more productive😀.
Well, finally I took photos of the items I will ship very soon:
– fabulous 1:6 scale dining set and bedside tables will travel to USA😀
– fantastic 1:4 dining set will travel to Czech Republic😀
Here you can see the comparation of the 1:4 and 1:6 scale chairs:
and one new item – the photo isnt official becuase I didnt fabricate any costume for the official presentation of the bow and arrow in 1:4 scale:
and one little bonus :D… what did I do instead of working? … playing😀 with my newest tonner doll couple and my favourite tonner doll couple😀 – Yoshio (Yoshio Basic), Claudia (Jonquil Basic), Diego (Brother Dreary) and Mirka (Basic Dorothy):
I promise to start next week more responsibly… Im planing a big "beach" collection for all my Tonner dolls and 2011 "Dia de muertos" collection for EG so I have to put to work.
Dont worry about your orders of mildendo´s furniture! I hope I will have good news for you very soon!
Have a really great week! Big hug from Mexico to all doll collectors!


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The kiddo likes to "help" make the pancakes as well, contributing to the strange places I find flour days later. I give him the muffin tin to pour his concoction into...thinking somehow it would be less mess in the muffin tin. Or actually - more mess, but more holes to "fill" so it occupies him a bit longer than one large bowl. And somehow the kiddo always knows when its Saturday, because he wakes up and yells: "Pancakes - yea!". Maybe it has to do with the hubs still hanging out around the house past 6:30AM. I'm not sure.
Below is my favorite pancake recipe, courtesy of the Food Network. I love it because you don't have to have buttermilk handy. Which I never do.
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 1/4 cups milk, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more as needed
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg.
In another bowl, beat the eggs and then whisk in the milk and vanilla.
Melt the butter in a large cast iron skillet or griddle over medium heat.
Whisk the butter into the milk mixture. Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture, and whisk until a thick batter is just formed.
Keeping the skillet at medium heat, ladle about 1/4 cup of the batter onto the skillet, to make a pancake. Make 1 or 2 more pancakes, taking care to keep them evenly spaced apart. Cook, until bubbles break the surface of the pancakes, and the undersides are golden brown, about 2 minutes. Flip with a spatula and cook about 1 minute more on the second side. Serve immediately or transfer to a platter and cover loosely with foil to keep warm. Repeat with the remaining batter, adding more butter to the skillet as needed.
Procedure for adding fruit to pancakes: Once the bubbles break the surface of the pancakes, scatter the surface with sliced or diced fruit, or chocolate chips, nuts, etc. Flip with a spatula and cook for 1 minute more, being careful not to burn toppings.
Hope you love 'em!!


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The big rig went off the highway just after midnight.
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Your child comes home from school moody, angry, depressed, and withdrawn or perhaps he or she begins to have difficulty getting up in the morning, has multiple physical complaints, and begins to avoid school altogether. Something feels wrong to you, but your child denies it or perhaps tells you someone is "being mean" but implores you not to get involved.What is a parent to do? How seriously should your child's behavioral change be taken? Is your child being bullied? Isn't this normal? If you ignore it, will it just go away?An episode of bullying occurs approximately once every 7 minutes and lasts an average 15 seconds. Bullying by definition is behavior that is repetitive over time, based on an imbalance of power and intended to harm and control another. This behavior can be seen as early as preschool, but is more frequent in second, fifth, seventh and eighth grades.Three categories of bullying have been identified. Judy Sheehan, RN, BSN, MSN, Director of Nursing Education at Butler Hospital, explains, "Physical bullying is the easiest to identify and includes hitting, punching, kicking, spitting, pushing or taking personal belongings. Verbal is the most common type of bullying and very difficult to identify or prove. It includes malicious teasing, name calling and /or making threats. The last category of bullying is emotional or psychological bullying and includes cyber bullying, sexual harassment, extortion and intimidation." In addition, relational violence, a particularly damaging type of emotional bullying involves the manipulation of social relationships and the spreading of rumors. This relational violence is often seen in female to female relationships and disrupts or damages social skill development.Unfortunately, perpetrators, victims and witnesses of bullying all suffer from the experience, and, in fact, the impact of this type of violence has a societal as well as emotional cost. There are many resources available throughout the community to address the issues of bullies, victims and witnesses. Sheehan adds, "Beware of resources that downplay or minimize the effects of bullying on children. It is a very serious issue and should not be dealt with lightly. Bullying can be extremely harmful to children who are bullied."
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McClatchy Declares Second Quarter 2007 Dividend
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 18 cents per share. The second quarter dividend is payable July 2, 2007 to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 13, 2007.
The McClatchy Company is the third largest newspaper company in the United States, with 31 daily newspapers and approximately 50 non-dailies. McClatchy- owned newspapers include The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, the (Fort Worth) Star-Telegram, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer, and The (Raleigh) News & Observer. In addition, McClatchy has a robust network of internet assets, including leading local websites in each of its daily newspaper markets, offering users information, comprehensive news, advertising, e-commerce and other services. The company also owns and operates McClatchy Interactive, an interactive operation that provides websites with content, publishing tools and software development; Real Cities (http://www.RealCities.com), the largest national advertising network of local news websites and 14.4% of CareerBuilder, the nation's largest online job site. McClatchy also owns 25.6% of Classified Ventures, a newspaper industry partnership that offers classified websites such as cars.com and apartments.com. McClatchy is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MNI.


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Breaking: Google Morocco Google.co.ma is Hacked!
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Google has local domains for almost every country in the world. And Morocco is one of them http://google.co.ma/ . However it appears that it is hacked, as of now.
Once you try to access the domain, you get a message that says: HackeD By PAKbugs, calling them selves ZombiE_KsA Cyber Criminal spo0fer x00mx00m. I have no idea who they are, but KSA might be the acronym of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. That does not mean the hacker/s are Saudi, as anyone might use that name. However there is a link to Pak Bugs website.
Habib Haddad the Founder of Yamli, tweeted this discovery on twitter, again this shows how social media, namely Twitter makes breaking news really hyper breaking.
ArabCrunch will contact Google to see what went wrong.
Update: An Internet user in Egypt reported to AC, that the domain is back to work. However at my end (in Jordan) http://google.co.ma/ still not working but http://www.google.co.ma/ is working fine. So this seems like a DNS attack.
Update 2: ArabCrunch was tipped that Google does not forward all traffic in Morocco to www.google.ca.ma anymore, but to google.com that means if you write www.google.com from Morocco it will take you to google.com page not www.google.ca.ma
Update 3: The domain is back to work now. As we said it appears like a DNS attack: DNS hijacking to nic.ma that handles DNS for Morocco's domains. It appears as the hacker forwarded/ redirected the DNS (188.8.131.52 redirected to 18.104.22.168)
PAKbugs.com seems a forum where Pakistani hacker hang out, appears to be hacked as of now, so the hacker is hacked 😛
I have previously emailed Google and the hackers, until now I got no answer form either of them.
Update 4: We just received an email from ZombiE_KsA who is part of the group which hacked Google.co.ma domain. He said that he is from Saudi Arabia but originally Pakistani. He also confirmed that they did the hacking through DNS hijacking to Network Information Center of Morocco. (Where the domain DNS is hosted.)
He was also upset that I suggested that PaKBugs.com might been hacked; in fact according to him, their hosting company Softlayer closed their site after receiving an email from Google. He added that now they have a new server and the website is up and running again.
On the other hand, a Google spokesperson told ArabCrunch:
"Google services in Morocco are not hacked. Since Friday PST, some users visiting www.google.co.ma were redirected to a different website. We're in touch with the appropriate hosting service to help investigate the issue."


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|Town and municipality
Viljandi town hall
|Coordinates: 58°22′N 25°36′E / 58.367°N 25.600°ECoordinates: 58°22′N 25°36′E / 58.367°N 25.600°E
|Viljandi County
|• Mayor
|Ando Kiviberg
|• Total
|14.62 km2 (5.64 sq mi)
|83 m (272 ft)
|Population (2013)
|• Total
|17 473
|• Estonians
|• Russians
|• other
|Time zone
|• Summer (DST)
|Postal code
|Area code(s)
|(+372) 043
|Vehicle registration
Viljandi (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈʋilʲˑjɑnʲˑdi]; German: Fellin) is a town and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,473 in 2013. It is the capital of Viljandi County. The town was first mentioned in 1283, upon being granted its town charter by Wilhelm von Endorpe. The town became a member of the Hanseatic League at the beginning of the 14th century, and is one of five Estonian towns and cities in the league. The popular Estonian newspaper Sakala was founded in Viljandi in 1878.
- 1 Symbols
- 2 History
- 3 Geography
- 4 Culture
- 5 Economy
- 6 Transport
- 7 Education
- 8 Sports
- 9 Legends
- 10 International relations
- 11 Events
- 12 Notable residents
- 13 Trivia
- 14 See also
- 15 References
- 16 External links
The flag of Viljandi is bi-coloured, its upper part light blue and lower part white. The city's shield-shaped coat of arms is light blue, with a white rose in the middle. Viljandi is the white rose city – in midsummer there are 720 white roses flowering in front of the city hall, planted for the town's anniversary in 2003. In summer, the White Rose Day is celebrated in Viljandi.
First records of civilization in the surroundings of Viljandi date back to the 5th millennium B.C. The first written record of the earthen stronghold of Viljandi was in the year 1154 in the commentaries to al-Idrisi's world atlas Geography.
In the 12th century, a permanent settlement emerged around the stronghold of Viljandi, which also became the economic centre of the ancient Sakala district.
In 1211 the hillfort of the Estonians in Viljandi was besieged by a joint army of Germans, Latvians, and Livs. The Livonian Sword Brethren (later the Livonian Order) captured the hillfort in August 1223 from a contingent of the people of Rus, who joined forces with the insurgent Estonians. In place of the Sakala wooden stronghold a powerful Order Centre was started in 1224. The following year the Grand Master Volquin led the construction of the Viljandi Castle at the site of the former hillfort. The Viljandi (Fellin) castle was one of the largest in the Baltic region. It was a major fortification of the Livonian Order and was appointed a commander from 1248. The fortress was continually rebuilt and modernized over the next two-hundred years.
In the 13th century, a medieval town arose on the northern side of the stronghold. The Hamburg-Riga town bylaws, lands and population of it were first recorded in 1283. During the first half of the 14th century, Viljandi joined the influential Hanseatic League – the town had become an important stop for merchants on their way to Russia and back. In 1365, the town council was party when peace between Denmark and Hansa was concluded.
In 1470, Johann Wolthus von Herse, then master of the order, took up residence in the castle. In the Middle Ages, Viljandi was a typical small commercial town, which got its main income from transit trade. The local trade and handicraft played an equally important role. In 1481, Ivan III of Russia laid siege to the castle but could not take it. The decline of Viljandi started during the Livonian War and in 1560, the forces of Prince Kurbski of Muscovite Russia succeeded in seizing and demolished the town and the stronghold.
During the Polish–Russian War in the first quarter of the 17th century, the town and the stronghold were completely destroyed. Under the Swedish rule in the 17th century the town bylaws of Viljandi were cancelled. After the Great Northern War, Russians seized the power and Viljandi was without laws until the year 1783, when in the course of the regency reforms of Catherine II Viljandi became a district town. This involved the re-establishment of town bylaws. The economic and political importance of Viljandi started to increase. The population, meanwhile, having decreased to the minimum, started to rise again; handicraft, trading and cultural life were enlivened.
The town is situated on the north-western shore of Lake Viljandi, which lies in the primeval valley. Green zones cover 27% of the town area. Public green areas cover about 418 ha, including 92 ha of parks. The largest is the nature-protected Castle Park, but also Valuoja Park, Kiigepark, Uueveski Park are worth mentioning. The main tree species are oak, lime, birch, and pine. The grandest tree-lined avenues are Maramaa (named after August Maramaa, twice the mayor of Viljandi) and Lembitu avenues. Among foreign species, American larch can be found in Köler avenue and Douglas fir in Uus street.
Viljandi is sometimes called the cultural capital of Estonia, partly due to the Viljandi Culture Academy being located there.
Ugala Theatre since 1920, Viljandi has had the Ugala drama theatre. The tradition of open-air performances dates back to the same year.
Viljandi Puppet Theatre
Sakala Centre
Viljandi Library built in 2002 is also a venue for exhibitions, meetings with famous people, culture seminars, etc.
Kondas Centre is dedicated to Estonian naïve artist Paul Kondas. The center hosts exhibitions of representatives of naïvism and is also a meeting place for artistic people.
Estonian Traditional Music Centre located in the Traditional Music Storehouse, a restored store house on Kirsimägi in the Castle ruins. The mission of the Center is to promote and teach traditional music.
There were 871 businesses in Viljandi on 1 May 2005, 50% of them in service, 45% in trade, and 5% in production areas. The major industries represented are the construction materials industry, textile industry, and food and bakery industry. In 2005, the Investor of the Year title was awarded to the waterworks operator AS Viljandi Veevärk, the Employer award to AS Toom Tekstiil, and the Sponsor of the Year title to AS Viljandi Metall. Unemployment rate among the working-age population in Viljandi was about 3%.[when?]
At the moment, 2 modes of transport can be used – road and rail.
There are 7 schools and 7 kindergartens in Viljandi, a vocational secondary school and a university college. Special interests are catered for by a variety of institution providing extracurricular studies and activities in such fields as sports, music etc. The Youth Centre of Viljandi County is successful in offering various information and consulting services.
Schools in Viljandi[edit]
Primary Schools
Grammar Schools
Vocational education[edit]
Vocational education can be acquired at Viljandi Joint Vocational Secondary School.
Higher education[edit]
Higher and applied higher education can be acquired at Viljandi Culture Academy a college of the University of Tartu.
Extracurricular educational institutions[edit]
- Viljandi Music School
- Viljandi Sports School
- Viljandi Art School
- Viljandi Youth Hobby Centre
There are sports events in Viljandi for both top athletes and amateurs. Family sports events, Sunday skiing trips, cycling tours in spring and autumn are very popular. In the city there are 53 sports clubs, a large sports hall and the new sports hall of Maagümnaasium. Also, the country's first artificial speed skating oval was opened in 2014.[1] Soon, the jogging and cycling track around Lake Viljandi will be completed. A new skateboarding and roller-skating area has been built in Männimäe. At the lakeside are tennis courts and the city stadium.
Several races are held in Viljandi – around Lake Viljandi and Lake Paala and up and down the Trepimägi stairs. The longest tradition – the race around Lake Viljandi has been organised since 1928. This race takes place annually on 1 May, with the number of participants being about 1300 in the recent years. The winners' names are cut into stone columns. The legendary Hubert Pärnakivi, whose monument is also a tribute to the race, was an 11-time winner of the race.
Other popular fields of sport in Viljandi are handball, football, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, archery and rowing.
Boatman of Viljandi[edit]
Often the popular song is sung about the Boatman of Viljandi or the legend of him is told. Long-long ago, as a young man he had once taken a young girl across the lake on a summer evening and fallen hopelessly in love with the girl's blue eyes. Nobody knows what happened on the lake, but on the other side, the girl just waved him good-bye and left... However, the Boatman, a grey old man now, is said to row on the lake to this day, longing to see those wonderful blue eyes again.
According to another story, it was a boatman from Gauja who had dedicated a song to his loved one. As the young woman had moved near Viljandi, the song had changed, too.
International relations[edit]
City League the Hanse[edit]
Viljandi as historic Hanseatic town is a member of the international City League the Hanse.
Twin towns – Sister cities[edit]
Viljandi is twinned with:
- Viljandi Folk Music Festival a music festival with a focus on European folk music. It is traditionally held in the end of July. In the year 2006, over 24,000 people attended the concerts. As such, it is the largest annual music festival in Estonia. Due to this, Viljandi is sometimes called the Estonian Capital of Folk Music.
- Early Music Festival
- Noore Tantsu ("Young Dance") Festival
- Winter Folk Dance Festival
- "Theatre in Suitcase" puppet theatre festival
- Rock Ramp Festival
- Viljandi Hanseatic Days are traditionally held in June every year. The program covers different activities and events like a Hanseatic fair, where people can buy and sell traditional goods. The Viljandi Hanseatic Days also offer concerts and live performances from local and foreign performers. Different workshops are opened. Medieval sports games take place by the Lake Viljandi.
- International Hanseatic Days will be held in Viljandi from 2015.
- Grand Race around Lake Viljandi
Notable residents[edit]
Franz Burchard Dörbeck (1799–1835), Baltic-German caricaturist and painter
Leopold v. Pezold (1832–1907), journalist, teacher, author
Hans Schmidt (1854–1923), German musician (composer and pianist) and poet
Elisabeth Schiemann (1881–1972), German geneticist and crop scientist
Joakim Puhk (1888–1942), Estonian entrepreneur and sports official
August Alle (1890–1952), Estonian author
Uno Naissoo (1928–1980), Estonian composer and music pedagogue
Sirje Tamul (* 1951), Estonian historian
Mart Laar (* 1960), Estonian politician
Helir-Valdor Seeder (* 1964), Estonian politician
Jaan Tätte (* 1964), Estonian dramatist, actor and singer
Meelis Atonen (* 1966), Estonian politician
Annely Peebo (* 1971), Estonian opera singer(mezzo-soprano)
Sander Post (* 1984), Estonian football player
Triinu Kivilaan (* 1989), former bassist of the band Vanilla Ninja, now soloist
In 2005, Estonian Match, the successor of the 100-year-old Viljandi Match Factory, made a six-metre match, which was registered as the largest match in the world in the Guinness Book of Records.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Kunskapsresa till vänorten Viljandi". eslov.se. Retrieved 26 April 2014. Template:Swedish icon
- ^ "Cumberland Establishes Sister City In Estonia". Cumberland Times-News. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
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External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Viljandi.
|Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Viljandi.


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Autonomy and sustainability: An integrated analysis of the development of new approaches to agrosystem management in family-based farming in Carnaubais Territory, Piauí, Brazil
This paper seeks to analyze an endogenous development scheme implemented by farming families, involving innovations in the organic production of watermelons; this was a novel local initiative reflecting the creative drive of the farmers themselves, against a background marked by considerable political and institutional uncertainty. The scheme was evaluated in terms of a set of systemic properties measured by multidimensional indicators for farming systems. Data on the selected indicators were collected by field observations, monitoring of production units, and direct semi-structured interviews with farmers. In general terms, the innovations prompted improvements in the various components of extensive environmental and social sustainability, enabling a more sustainable land use through chemical, physical and biological improvements to the soil in the farming systems studied, ensuring increased incomes and the maintenance of family employment, strengthening the farmers' resources and improving their control over resources, and reducing the degree of dependency in relations between the farming unit and the broader context.
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