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Letter(s) from Tatyana Znatnova to Gregg (USA)
Letter 1
Hello My Dear Friend Gregg!!!!
Thank you very much for answering my email. I thought, that you will not write me because I live in other country. I'd like to say that you are an unordinary man and you worth all the best.
It is very pleasant to me to receive your photos in your letter. They have very much liked me. Thanks!
I do not have computer at home and I should communicate with you in the library in my city. I visit this library after my work and I cannot visit it often. Gregg I would like to tell about my family more. I do not have children and I never was married. I think, that the family is a serious act in a life and the big responsibility.
Family, in my opinion, is someone who loves you and whom you love either. It can be not only your parents but also people who are dear to you, who take care of you. If you have someone who can do everything for you and you can do the same - you are lucky you have a family. I think that the family in this point of view is one of the most important things in our life, and people who have no family are always lonely and moreover nobody takes care of them. Gregg do you agree with me? My family it's my mum, grandmothar and my grandfother.
I live with mum at apartment in our city. Her name is Elena. She is 51 years old. She work in the factory. She is a very nice, kind and clever woman. My grandmother and my grandfather live in the village, it name Znamenka. Her name is Marina and she 72 years old. She does not work now, she is a pensioner, but she has a lot of work to do about the house. My grandfather name is Sergei and he 74 years old. He is pensioner too. Sometimes we go on fishing with him. He always learns me respect other people and help them. I badly remember my father. He was the officer of the Soviet army and he died in Afghanistan in 1987 when I was 3 years old. My mother say that he was very courageous and very kind. She is very loved him and he very loved my mother. I am proud my father. He is my hero. Gregg tell me more about yourself, your family, your parents. What does your family mean to you? It's very interesting for me.
The life of a modern family is uneasy. In it there are many difficulties and problems, but nevertheless the main thing is love and respect, as two necessary bases for its life. Because having in a family arsenal so strong two weapons, people are capable to go through any household disorders. I hope that a photo which I send today, it is pleasant to you. On it I with my mum.
I wait your letter. Where it? You yet have not answered?
I will press it tomorrow.
With impatience I wait.......
Yours friend Ekaterina
Letter 2
Gregg you do not represent, with what impatience I waited your letter. I waited and thought that you will tell to me. I would dream of that what to receive more likely your letter. Also has received. I waited for it with impatience. I even have come today much earlier, than usually that to receive it.
I am glad, that your relatives as well as I understand us. I am madly glad to it, but most of all I am happy, that I am not mistaken in you.
In your sincerity, what you that with whom I should be for whom it is born.
I wish to learn from you something. How do you represent our meeting? I do not know, how it will occur. But I think, that it will be at the airport. Because I know that it will be necessary to fly by the plane. I never flied, but I think, that I can, and I shall not be afraid. I ready on all for the sake of you Gregg. And how it will be? How you represent our meeting at the airport? Here I have left the plane, have gone to an exit and on eyes have met....... I cannot present at all that happens. Likely I shall simply leave all things and to run to you towards, what to feel your kisses, your embraces, your tenderness and caress. Can so? I at all do not know...... At all I do not know as it will be. Gregg there we the first time shall kiss.
There first time we shall meet and we can feel one another. You represent? Gregg it will be our first meeting. How you think, what will be? Tell to me, I wish to know. Where we to go? What shall we make? We shall be one? Nobody to us will stir?
Gregg I know that it will be fine, but I do not know as it you imagine. Tell me. I wish to know it. I wish to be with you, only with you for ever and nothing is necessary for me except for your love.
I miss you, I wish to be with you. I hope, that you will write me soon how you imagine our meeting and will tell, that we shall make.
I wait your letter, with impatience and I am burnt with that I wish to be with you.
I send you my photo, on which I in summer cafe and I hope, that soon we with you shall have many photo on which we shall be together.
Yours and only your loving and gentle Ekaterina
Letter 3
Gregg I love, I love you and anybody another, only you are necessary for me and I am ready to make all for the sake of that we with you would be happy, happy for ever.
I do not know how to describe now words, on mine eyes of tear of happiness, I wish to cry, cry because now I am precisely assured, that you that the man with whom I wish to be for ever, Gregg only with you and with anybody another. I wish to be in your embraces in your embraces for ever. Only you and only with you. Without you I do not represent the life now.
Gregg I wish to be in your embraces, I wish to feel your tenderness and caress, love, passion and sweet of your kisses. I do not know, how you to describe everything, that in my heart now occurs. It is inexplicable. I love you, I love all heart and I wish to be with you for ever. I LOVE AND I WISH TO BE WITH YOU AND ONLY WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!! I only your, your and nobody's other, my life belong to you, and I shall make all what to be with you. I wish to be with you.
With you for ever. You my life.
Gregg I tomorrow shall go in the morning and I shall learn all that it is possible to make and as to us you will meet more likely. And as soon as I learn all I shall inform you when I can arrive. I shall be with you. We shall be together. WE SHALL BE TOGETHER, AND I SHALL ARRIVE TO YOU SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I shall be with you!!!!!!
Our first meeting which we recently represented, becomes a reality, we can embody it. I shall make it. I shall be with you. I shall be in your embraces!!! Gregg do you have prepared for hands that to catch me? I soon shall arrive to you, and we shall embody, and a reality all dreams of which dreamed.
My heart is overflown by love and passion and is fast when I shall with you we can enjoy that could meet.
I shall be with you it's truth . I swear, I ask you do not search for anybody, I shall arrive also we shall be happy. Anybody and will be nothing a barrier to us I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!
Yours and only your loving and adoring all heart Ekaterina
Letter 4
.. I do not know.... I do not know how to begin this letter...
Forgive.... Forgive me.... Forgive the silly girl who swore that will be fast with you. I do not know, I cannot even tell or write to you. I so have badly arrived before you. I cannot arrive, Gregg I ask you forgive, Gregg on my eyes, as well as on yours likely now tears. Tears of that I cannot arrive to you. I did not think that it so is expensive. There was that it very expensively. And I cannot find such money. Why??? Gregg you can explain to me why???...... Why so????? Why so occurs? Why in this life all not as would be desirable. I lived, you lived, we did not know one another and were sad without true love.
But we have found one another, have got acquainted and are ready to a meeting and are assured already almost of our feelings one to another.
But now it appears, that we cannot meet. We can not meet only because it is cost very expensively.
Forgive Gregg.... If I knew that it so expensively I would not speak you it. I do not have such money and even if I shall sell ours with mum the house that I to not receive so much money. Because it already old. But I shall try to find a way. And if at me it will turn out, I shall necessarily make it. I shall be with you.
Gregg I do not know how to make it, I understand, that you likely are now offended on me and more likely do not wish to communicate with me because I have deceived you, have sworn to arrive soon, and itself I can not, Gregg but I ask you to not leave me. Because you the best, that I to have in the life, in it there is nothing more perfectly you.
And only for the sake of you I live, and I shall live, and I understand it. I hope, that it understand, both you and I shall receive your letter tomorrow.
Forgive, I the truth did not know, I am not guilty in it. I did not wish to deceive, if I knew, how many it is cost that I at once would tell to you. But I did not know.
I ask you Gregg, forgive me.
I love, I love and I wish to be only with you.
I hope, that tomorrow I to come back and receive your letter.
Yours and only your loving and gentle Ekaterina
Letter 5
Gregg I again write you the letter... But you know, this letter will differ from the previous letters. And the sense will be another. I write to you, I mean I think of you, about us...
It is said that people start to understand strongly their sincere feelings, only when these feelings test problems. Yesterday I have left library to my girlfriend, and I cried all the evening long.
Irina calmed me and said, that it is possible to find a way as we can meet. We tried to find such money today, but it turns out nothing.
Nobody can give them to me. I wish to tell that my full name: Ekaterina Kuzmina
I cannot inform you a phone number because I have no phone. If I would have phone I would call to you. But alas I have no phone and I can not call to you. I will try to search for a way to call to you and as soon as I will find such way I will inform you on it. Well? Yes, you are far from me, but it is not important. I will love you eternally, all my life because in the whole world for me there is nobody except you.
For love there are no barriers and you always in my heart, in my soul.
To me so it is lonely without you so it is cold as if the soul washing freezes in this cloudy silence. And only your letters restore me to life... Yes, I am ready to meet you at the airport and I with pleasure will make it. You understand favourite I wish and I wish to be with you. The darling, would be desirable to tell to you that it will not be a problem and you will live together with me and mum in apartment in which we now live. You understand me? You already a part of our family and you not should think that there will be problems. All is good!!!!
Yesterday to me have told, that it is necessary for me about 850 dollars that I could arrive to you if I do all. To me explained, that it is better to me to make out all by means of agency which is engaged in such trips. I descended there. To me have told, that any travel should begin with documents. They will prepare me for interview, will make all papers and will explain as how to do. Official registration of papers at them cost of 710 dollars. Gregg I need to make out the medical inquiry (20 dollars) because to the sick person do not allow to travel to other country. I am absolutely healthy also I can receive the inquiry from hospital. Then it is necessary to make out the inquiry from police (20 dollars) because to the criminal do not allow to travel to other country too. Gregg I not the criminal and consequently I will receive this inquiry without problems. At my musical school I need to issue the inquiry on incomes (15 dollars). It would be necessary that in embassy to your country in Moscow the inspector knew, that I have good and stable work. In my city I need to pay taxes (110 dollars) and then I can receive the passport in my city (60 dollars). With these documents I can go to Moscow what to receive the visa in embassy of your country. I learnt concerning my travel to Moscow. It is better to me to go by train because it is more favourable and it is economic. Travel cost by train - 150 dollars. And I need to live in hotel in Moscow 3 days, that I could receive the visa. Hotel cost - 155 dollars. I will address in embassy and I will pass interview. Visa cost makes - 150 dollars. The total cost of all my expenses will make - 710 dollars. I do not know, how papers in my country are long made, but I will try to receive more information on it. Well?
I love you and I wish to be with you, but it is very a shame to me.
Unfortunately I have no such means for travel to you. It is very a shame to me to write to you about my problems. Forgive...
Forgive me my love Gregg. To me I am heavy and sick also I do not know what to do further, but I suffer, because in heart still there lives hope, that soon it is all will end also we will be again happy!!!
For me the main thing what to be with you. In your embraces. Gregg it is all that is necessary for me. Not important where. The Most important thing - that we with you would be together. I know, that should not write my letters with grief, after all they are reflexion of soul, feelings. But now I cannot constrain my emotions.
Yours and only your loving and gentle Ekaterina
Letter 6
Hello My Love Gregg!!!
Gregg I write you my letter and with my letter I give you my heart and my love. Yes I love you and this feeling with me. Now on my soul rest and I want, that so was always. Certainly all of us want, that in our life there were only solar and fine days, but it cannot always be. In a life happens both a grief and sufferings. The main thing to understand, that all is temporary and it is necessary to suffer and do all for happiness. Gregg I am ready to make everything, only that we with you were happy. For me distance not a barrier. My love, is a lot of thoughts, but the essence one and it for me much means. I speak to you about our meetings, about ours with you the future. All depends on us and only from us. You agree with me? Gregg I wish to learn every day more and more and with you I as if in clouds.
Gregg I wish to be together with you. I only do not know as us to be with documents. If we could legalise papers, in 2-3 weeks we would be together. Together for ever. I will be only yours and only yours and I will never leave you one. You write that you wish to arrive to me. You have documents? You have a passport? You have the visa? Tell to me. In agency to me also explained that we can issue a number of documents in your country to be together together for ever.
Gregg I looked yesterday a film under the name "Patriot" in a leading role Mell Gibson plays. Probably you looked this film? This film about your country. Know I looked a film at one breath. Independence of your country, a merit of simple people. Not the soldier and not generals.
Inhabitants of your country have huge belief and fighting spirit. You could receive independence thanks to your love. I speak about love to the people and the earth. This just fine. Having looked a film I long thought that my love has also fighting spirit and love to the country.
I am proud, that you at me are. I am proud, that I love you. You the finest, that are in my life. Yes I also wish to be with you and to do with you a family. You my patriot and you my knight. Gregg we should think of the future and it is necessary to do it now because future sooner or later to turn to the present. I love you and I very much miss. I want, that you would transfer warm wishes for yours the relative and friends. Well? I need to go. But I already wait for your letter...
I love...
I miss...
Yours and only yours Ekaterina
Letter 7
Hello My Love Gregg!!!
How there has passed your day? How is the weather at you? Gregg yesterday there was a good working day and it has passed very quickly.
I took a shower in the evening and thought of you during that moment.
I closed the eyes standing under a shower and wished to feel you.
Having taken a shower and having washed some linen I went to bed. I long could not fall asleep thinking about you.
Gregg I can meet you in Moscow. For me it will not be a problem. I also wished to ask you what is the time will occupy visa registration?
Also what to do with documents that we could fly together. We could issue them before your arrival. And when you will fly back I could to fly together with you. What do you think of that? Tell to me. For me it is very important for knowing, because I do not wish to remain one.
I wish to be together with you and only with you. Gregg I very much like your plan. I also wish to inform you my home address:
city Velsk,
street Gagarin 10,
index 165150
Gregg I wish to warn you about that that mail in my country works badly and the parcel can sometimes not reach the addressee. It is a lot of such cases. At one of my acquaintances the son is in army and she wrote to it each two days. But the son did not answer its letters and it became worries and has gone to it to army. It has appeared that it simply did not receive from it letters. You understand me? Be very cautious. I do not want that you loss for me phone. Gregg I trust that soon we will together together for ever. I will be only yours and only with you. I will never leave you one. Gregg I hope that you will answer what to do with documents which are necessary for me to fly together with you back. Without documents I cannot fly with you. You understand me?
Gregg my favourite I think every second only of you and to me that is difficult to think of whom the friend. My thoughts only about us, about ours with you the fine future. I dream of that when you will come back home also I can make a supper for you. I think that the Russian cuisine is pleasant to you. Gregg what you would want food for a supper? We will extinguish light, we will light candles, we will include a quiet melody and we will enjoy to ours with you a supper then we will fall in our embraces and passion will absorb our hearts!
Gregg I am assured that very soon it happens. My darling I very much miss. I very much wait for ours with you of a meeting and I believe, that already very soon we will together, that we will enjoy together ours with you love. I send you the passionate kisses. I very much wait for your letter to me my darling Gregg. I love you. I with impatience will wait for your answer of your thoughts. To tomorrow...
Yours and only yours Ekaterina
Letter 8
Hello My Love Gregg!!!
Gregg the life gives us love, and I value in each afternoon. I sometimes think, how it would be good if we lived with you to one country. But now I understand, that it does not matter. Our love does not have borders and ocean not a hindrance to us with you. In ours the house always there will be a solar weather. In each person there should be a belief and hope. Without it it is difficult to think of the future. Everyone is born on our earth at will of the god and at everyone the destiny. All of us creators and everyone creates on the.
Who that does harm, who that kindly. All is a life. But an essence one and it will make the business and the way end depends on the person.
Not everyone can pass the way adequately. With you names will not remember ours from generation in generations. We not great people. But at us with you great and mighty love. You with me agree?
My love Gregg cost of all documents will make 710 dollars. Into this cost enters:
The visa - 150
The passport - 60
The inquiry from militia - 20
The inquiry on incomes - 15
The medical inquiry - 50
Payment of taxes - 110
Trip to Moscow - 150
Residing at Moscow - 155
To me explained, that it is necessary to go to Moscow for reception of the visa and residing at Moscow will make 3 days. To me also spoke that we can issue a number of documents in your country to be together for ever. Term of registration of all documents makes 2-3 weeks. And as soon as we can pay cost of official registration of papers that in 2-3 weeks we will be together. You understand me? Yes, we can visit my country next year. They will is very glad to see us. When we will be together I will be very glad to prepare for you. We could make a supper together. I would prepare some Russian dishes. And we would invite your family and friends to have acquaintance. What do you think about it? Tell to me.
Gregg as there passes your day? Today on my lessons parents of children came. We name it an open lesson. They looked at children.
Certainly children wished to show all skill. It was very pleasant to me to look at my pupils. They good fellows. Parents liked a lesson and they have told, that they would like to come still when there will be a possibility. Days do not stand on a place and it is our life. Gregg days without you are not lovely to me. When I work, when I at home or with my girlfriend I always think of you. My thoughts live with you. I think, that you should that I write all my letters to you from all my heart. I very much wait our meeting. I hope, that you also think of me. I miss on you.
I love you and only you.
Yours and only yours Ekaterina


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Naturalism (literature)
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Naturalism is a literary movement that emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality. Novelists writing in the naturalist mode include Émile Zola (its founder), Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, and Frank Norris.[1]
The term was coined by Zola, after his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867) had been sharply criticized for both contents and language, in a foreword for its second edition (1868), in a mixture of pride and defiance, he wrote: "Le groupe d'écrivains naturalistes auquel j'ai l'honneur d'appartenir a assez de courage et d'activité pour produir des œuvres fortes, portant en elles leur défense".[2]
Naturalism began as a branch of literary realism, and realism had favored fact, logic, and impersonality over the imaginative, symbolic, and supernatural. Dreiser, Crane, and Norris were also journalists,[1] and thus attempted to immerse themselves in the world of fact via the reporter's assumption of detached observation, although they considered themselves realists, naturalistic authors selected particular parts of reality: misery, corruption, vice, disease, poverty, prostitution, racism, and violence. They were criticized for being pessimistic and for concentrating excessively on the darker aspects of life.
The novel would be an experiment where the author could discover and analyze the forces, or scientific laws, that influenced behavior, and these included emotion, heredity, and environment.[3]
Other characteristics of literary naturalism include: detachment, in which the author maintains an impersonal tone and disinterested point of view; determinism, the opposite of free will, in which a character's fate has been decided, even predetermined, by impersonal forces of nature beyond human control; and a sense that the universe itself is indifferent to human life.
See also[edit]
- Naturalism (visual art)
- Naturalism (theatre)
- Philosophical naturalism
- Sociological naturalism
- Naturalism in 19th-century French literature
- Realism in the visual arts
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ a b Brooks, Cleanth; Lewis, R.W.B.; Warren, Robert Penn (1973). American literature; the makers and the making. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 1215.
- ^ http://www.youscribe.com/BookReader/Index/356249?documentId=327875. Retrieved April 16, 2017
- ^ Campbell, Donna. "Naturalism in American Literature". public.wsu.edu. Retrieved 19 June 2016.


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New drug driving legislation came into force on 2 March 2015. The Drug Driving (Specified Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014 introduce a new offence of driving, attempting to drive or be in charge of a motor vehicle on a road or other public place with amounts of 16 controlled drugs above specified limits in the driver's blood.
What is changing?
Previous "drug driving" legislation makes it an offence for a person to drive or attempt to drive a vehicle if they are unfit to drive through drugs. For a successful prosecution, it needs to be proved that the driver's impairment was caused by the drugs in their system. There have been no objective standards by which to determine this, which has attracted criticism due to the relatively low number of prosecutions for this offence to date.
This law will remain in force, but the key impact of the new legislation is that if a driver is found to have amounts of one of the specified drugs above the prescribed limits, they can be convicted on that basis, without any evidence of impairment and without there needing to be a link between any impairment and drug use.
As might be expected, the drugs listed in the legislation include illegal drugs such as cocaine. However, they also include drugs included in medicines which are either legally prescribed or available over the counter such as lorazepam:
- Benzoylecgonine
- Clonazepam
- Cocaine
- Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol
- Diazepam
- Flunitrazepam
- Ketamine
- Lorazepam
- Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
- Methadone
- Methylamphetamine
- Methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- 6-Monoacetylmorphine
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What is the potential impact of the new offence?
The Department of Transport (DfT) estimates that around 19 million prescriptions a year are issued for drugs which are included in the scope of this offence. This means that drivers are at risk of inadvertently breaking the new law when taking certain commonly used medicines.
Police forces have been issued with mobile screening devices, and any roadside testing would be followed up by blood and urine tests at a police station. However, these screening devices can only detect cannabis and cocaine, and concerns have been raised about their accuracy.
The DfT has reassured drivers that people who use the drugs listed legitimately, following the advice of a healthcare professional will be able to drive without fear of being prosecuted. There will be a defence for drivers who were prescribed the specific drug for medical or dental purposes and took it as directed in accordance with the instructions (insofar as consistent with the directions from the healthcare professional). However, this defence will not apply if the driver ignored any advice given when prescribing or in the instructions about the amount of time that should lapse between taking the drug and driving.
Despite the DfT's assurances, this has raised concerns about whether the defence would apply in circumstances where a patient is prescribed an off-label or an unlicensed medicine. Drivers have been advised to keep evidence of any legally prescribed medicines with them to speed up the investigation process should they be stopped, but this will be particularly important for off-label or unlicensed use. The consequences of getting this wrong can be stark, involving up to six months' imprisonment, a fine of up to £5,000 and a minimum of 12 months' disqualification.
What should employers be doing?
According to press reports, almost half of UK drivers are unaware that the new legislation is coming into force. This means that employers play a key role in helping to ensure that their workforce is up to speed with the coming changes.
This is particularly important where driving forms an integral part of an employee's role, but given the number of people who drive to work on a regular basis it is relevant on a wider scale.
Employers should therefore find that the legislation serves as a useful prompt to revisit existing drug and alcohol policies (and indeed to consider introducing these if not already in place) and look again at what steps they can take to promote awareness of the risks associated with drug and alcohol use and to promote a safe and healthy workplace culture. This could include consideration of any existing drug testing procedures, identifying any groups or individuals in the workforce who might be particularly affected and considering whether any awareness training should be put in place.


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With a stay at Best Western Wainwright Inn & Suites in Wainwright, you'll be convenient to Wainwright Golf Club and Memorial Clocktower. This hotel is within close proximity of Wainwright Rail Park and Wainwright Museum.
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For example, by the time ill effects from smoking are apparent it may be too late to avoid ill health.
For plant operations where there is potential for disastrous outcomes but the likelihood of such events is extremely low, the absence of these events (lagging performance indicators) may not be a true indicator that the potential dangers are being proactively managed.
The outcomes are so severe that one can't wait for it to happen to find out that the implementation of the HSEMS has been effective or not.
Lagging indicators may fail to reveal latent hazards that have a significant potential to result in a disaster.
The fact that a car's engine is running doesn't mean that it is not loosing oil and will not breakdown before the next service. Regular checking of the oil level is a sensible precaution and a leading indicator.
Comparing our weight to the healthy weight for somebody of our age and height can provide advance warning of potential future health problems such as Heart Disease.
Here body weight is the leading indicator.
Advance warning of weight increase can encourage changes in diet and life style to reduce the risks.
Lagging indicators provide information on the outcomes of our actions i.e. results from past actions.
Leading indicators measure the inputs to the process that affect future outcomes.
In many cases HSE performance is reviewed by assessing lagging indicators.
Lagging indicators like First Aid, Medical recordable, Lost time, Fatality are outcomes.
Reactions to outcomes, though important, are like reacting to a stock market change rather than predicting the change to protect investments.
Lost Time
First Aid
Near Missincident occurred
These are the outcomes we try to avoid
Lost Time
Lagging indicators
Medical Recordable
First Aid
Near Miss – incident occurred
Reading the signs of emerging risks
Leader site visits; Leader Audits
Permit to Work audits; JSA Audits; HSE Training
Leading indicators
Safety Critical Equipment PM; PM backlogs
Closure of actions - investigations; audits; HAZIDS
Safety Observations; Proactive Near-Miss reports
Reactive feedback and control
Proactive feedback and control
Accident & Incidents
Accident & Incidents
Leading Metrics
Desired Value
Desired Value
Error Detect
Error Detect
Lagging indicators monitor the outputs from the process. Corrective action is taken if the outputs deviate from the required standard. The control is reactive as corrective action cannot be initiated until the unwanted outputs have occurred.
Leading indicators monitor inputs to the process at stages before any adverse outcomes have occurred. Leading indicators provide feedback earlier in the process and enable proactive corrections to be made before any adverse outputs have resulted.
The effectiveness of leading performance indicators can be improved by better understanding the contributions that different inputs make to the desired output performance;
When using leading performance indicators, it is important to periodically analyze the relationships between the leading and lagging indicators that are being used and measure effectiveness.
Monitoring the petrol level without responding when the gauge shows near empty or relying on a faulty gauge that always shows more than half full will not prevent the car stopping when it runs out of fuel.
Leading performance indicators should be seen as a part of a process to guide actions that will improve future performance.
Identify where there are potential weakness or opportunities for improvement;
Identify what can be done to counter a weakness or deliver on improvement opportunities;
Set SMART performance standards for the actions identified;
Monitor performance against the standards;
Take corrective actions to improve performance;
Repeat the process, using the continual improvement model.
Actif the outcome deviates from the plan correct it
PlanThe activity of improvement
DoExecute the plan
CheckMeasure the Outcomes
Effective use of leading performance indicators can help to take the "luck" out of managing health, safety and environmental performance.
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By measuring the input to a process, leading performance indicators can complement the use of lagging indicators and compensate for some of their short coming.
Leading indicators can monitor the effectiveness of the control systems and give advance warning of any developing weaknesses i.e. show the condition of systems before failure occurs. In this way, they help to control risks and prevent accidents.
Leading performance indicators can also measure the inputs that people are making to the management process. Used in this way they have a role in promoting and monitoring a positive culture towards improving HSE performance.
Leading performance indicators provide information that helps the user to respond to changing circumstances and take actions to achieve desired outcomes or avoid unwanted outcomes.
Leading Indicators should be objective and measurable; and provide information that guides action to improve performance.
Leading performance indicators can be used for industry benchmarking;
This can be done using a set of leading performance indicators that are based on the actions that are considered to be of most importance for improving the performance of the Industry as a whole;
Performance standards can be developed based around the desired level of Industry Performance;
The benchmarking process can help to identify areas of weakness compared to other organizations and opportunities for improvement. These can provide a fruitful source of data that can be developed further for the organization's own leading performance indicators.


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Booooooo! Take your kittens and get outta here. This is about DOGS!
Here's a thought… the sane people in Texas who aren't whiny little bitches get to move out, while all the people demanding secession move to Texas. They get a nice big area (fully fenced in, of course, we don't want people getting in or out) to be bigoted assholes. Kinda like the UK did by shipping all their criminals to Australia :)
1. No, it's actually you who doesn't understand. Children won't be given the same rights as adults (like to enter intoalegal contract) because they're too young to fully understand what they're getting into. Where there are some 8-year-olds who could understand the most complicated legalese and some 40-year-olds don't understand the Miranda rights, there has to be an age set somewhere to strikeabalance. Hence the age of majority.
2. Homosexuals just want the same rights any other person does: to marry the person they love. "All men are created equal…" AmIright? No? So the founding fathers are wrong too,Isuppose.
3. …Yeah, because my name is Simone Roberts. What "cope"? Are you really so hard done by? And where did you get 96% from? Studies have suggested that between 10-20% of the population is gay, or at the very least, has homosexual tendencies. Andawhole lot more of us who are heterosexual want this for our friends. So really, it's only the bigots like you who would have to "cope", even though it would have zero impact on your daily life.
4. You're the one who brought up surrogates. Infertile people often use surrogates. Often, so do gay couples. It'savery similar circumstance, since the surrogate is used becauseacouple can't conceiveachild together, regardless of physiological reason.
5. You really havealack of faith in the species, don't you?7billion people,amajority of which is living in what could be considered polite society, and we're doomed? To what? Extinction? Anarchy? Living lives you don't approve of?Ihave little faith in humanity, but more because of people like you.
You're the one who said "At least orphans or children born out of wedlock were produced by people who actually felt some passion for eachother." Yet, conveniently for you, you exclude rape. And no, one-night stands don't always have two-way passion. Maybe you should stop watching movies. "If your kid does have your genes, it's not yours."
SomehowIthink there'satypo there…
Ijust love the fact you completely ignored the factIcalled you out on your grievous insult to adoptees/adopters.Iguess you are absolutely fucking ashamed of yourself for that load of bullshit. As you should be. What assumptions haveImade about you that are wrong? Enlighten me, please. Because the only assumptions I've made are that you'readisgusting, narrow-minded, selfish bigot. Seems pretty spot-on to me. Nature wins in the end?Iagree. Which is why the species and civilized society will continue to thrive once gay marriage is legal. It already is in some European countries and Canada, and they seem to be doing just fine. Go figure.
Hm. You're an even bigger idiot thanIthought. But, these will be my last thoughts on the matter, becauseIdon't feel like wasting my time much more withacomplete waste of skin like you, so don't bother responding. 1. Ever hear of the concept of consenting adults?Idon't even givearat's ass about polygamy, as long as it's with consenting ADULTS. Get it? IfIhave 10 menIwant to marry, or hell, even 10 women, if we're all consenting adultsIdon't seeaproblem.
2. Figures you would use the word "communist" to insult someone who disagrees with you. Needs trump wants, fine. You don't need to get married any more thanagay person does. Also, I'd be surprised if your children aren't confused, but maybe they spew the same vitriolic nonsense you do. God help them if they turn out to be gay.
3. Funny that it seems you assume I'magay man. I'm actuallyabisexual woman (married toaman, though), so yeah,Ican already say "my husband". Yes, gay men should also have that right. Gay women should have the right to say "my wife". They should have the right toamarriage certificate, just as my husband andI(both atheists, in case you wanted to bring god into it) do. Why? Because this is the last accepted form of discrimination, and technically, discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal.
4. "Veiled child thievery"? That's about the dumbest thing I've heard one of you say. Yes, they need surrogates of one form or another. So doawhooooooole lot of people who deal with infertility.
5. Homosexuality goes against nature? Tell that to the 1500 species that have been observed to exhibit homosexual activity. Besides, homosexuality has existed in humans since we began, yet civilized society not only was established, but thrives.
"That'sabit like havingachild with someone who's not your wife and then taking that child as your own, it hasahollow, shallow, empty, unpassionate feeling."
Wow. Way to completely insult everyone who's ever adopted or been adopted. If you're not absolutely fucking ashamed of yourself for that load of bullshit, you should be. Or does that only apply to homosexuals in your sick, twisted mind?
"At least orphans or children born out of wedlock were produced by people who actually felt some passion for eachother."
And that'sapretty stupid thing to say too. Ever hear ofaone-night stand? Stupid things tend to happen at parties with booze… Or how about rape? Oh, right. You're probably one of the people who agrees with Todd Akin and thinks women can't get pregnant from rape.
Ihate to tell you this… no actually,Ilove it, becauseIknow it upsets you… Despite all the screaming and moaning and crying you and your ilk love to do onamatter that does not concern you, gay marriage is happening. Times are changing for the better. Don't like it? Then move toacountry that doesn't pride itself on its freedoms, becauseIcan tell you this much: you're losing this battle.
You're an idiot.
1- People will never be able to marry what they want, because animals/children/inanimate objects can not legally enter intoacontract, and that's all marriage is.
2- Your children may be confused, but mine damn well know who they are and what they want, and they happen to want equality. Maybe yours are confused because they don't understand why you're being so mean to people who are of no consequence to you.
3- Marriage grants rights that people otherwise would not have. And don't harp on about civil unions. If it has the same rights, then the people in that union should have the right to call itamarriage, otherwise you're just arguing against the right to useaword.
4- Gay people can and do have kids all the time. They just tend to have them forabetter reason than that the condom broke.
5- I've never heardabunch of losers cry so hard about something that has ZERO to do with them. So you know what? You grow up and mind your own damn business.
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Lives at risk: 214 GOSH consultants pen open letter to Jeremy Hunt in Junior Doctors fight
MORE than 200 of Britain's top consultants at Great Ormond Street Hospital have today signed an open letter to Jeremy Hunt saying lives will be put at risk unless he scraps plans to impose a new contract on Britain's junior doctors.
Great Ormond Street consultants have written to Jeremy Hunt to campaign for the Junior Doctors
The strongly-worded missive from leading doctors at the world renowned London children's hospital has been published on Express.co.uk and urges the Health Secretary to return to negotiations with the British Medical Association (BMA) over the contract.
The open letter is headed by key signatories Dr Ella Aidoo of the hospital's Paediatric Palliative Medicine team, Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Gastroenterology Dr Intan Yeop and Dr Hoong-Wei Gan, Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Endocrinology.
It tells Mr Hunt: "We are deeply concerned and disappointed that you wish to impose a contract that will threaten the safety of our patients and the wellbeing, motivation and morale of the junior doctor team across the country."
It continues: "The new contract will significantly impact on recruitment and retention in many specialities, including paediatrics, which will ultimately harm our patients and the quality of care we provide them.
Between 2,500 and 3,000 doctors and their supporters turned-out for the protest over contracts
"We urge you to reconsider your proposal, return to the negotiation table with the BMA with no preconditions, to be honest with the public and to support us in caring for the sick children who are dependent on our services."
The NHS Junior Doctor Crisis crusade has already received the backing of 10,000 signatories via our website and today Daily Express readers can join the cause by filling out the petition online or by a postal coupon.
The 214 doctors backing the Express' crusade are demanding Health Secretary Mr Hunt revise proposals which they say will force Junior Doctors - any doctor below consultant level - to work more hours for less pay.
The letter warns the changes, due to be implemented next August, will "ultimately harm our patients and the quality of care we provide them".
Signatory Dr Lee Hudson, a general paediatrician, said: "By cutting overtime pay for junior doctors I think it seriously threatens recruitment and retention of junior doctors in the NHS at a time when it's already challenging to fill posts in key frontline services such as emergency medicine.
214 Great Ormond Street consultants have signed the open letter
"I fear this may have implications for patient safety, and will likely impact on the very people who will be essential to developments around seven-day services."
The Government has said it plans to impose a new contract on junior doctors up to consultant level next summer.
The medics would have their contracts changed so their normal working hours, currently 7am to 7pm, will be extended to instead end at 10pm every day of the week except Sunday.
They argue they will lose out financially as evenings and Saturdays will be paid at the standard rate rather than a higher rate previously for anti-social hours, amounting to pay cuts of up to 30 per cent.
And they have raised patient safety concerns over doctor tiredness due to the longer working day.
Junior Doctors face changes to their contracts which will see them work longer hours for less money
Since Health Secretary Mr Hunt announced the planned changes for England, junior doctors, supported by consultants and patients, have taken to the streets in protest.
Mr Hunt has accused the British Medical Association of misleading doctors and says the proposals would in fact reduce their maximum weekly working hours.
Campaigners say Mr Hunt's plans will also remove financial penalties for NHS Trusts breaching safeguards designed to prevent junior doctors working excessively long hours.
The world's leading children's hospital's consultants have told the health secretary this "will be dangerous for both patients and doctors".
A consultant for four-years, Dr Hudson, 39, added: "Plans to remove obligatory monitoring of junior doctor hours by NHS employers is also a real concern, as this has been important in the past for ensuring and maintaining safe hours.
"I also think the new contract is likely to worsen workforce morale, which I perceive to be currently flagging in the NHS."
Jeremy Hunt's plans will remove financial penalties for NHS Trusts
The health secretary's plans also remove the current annual pay progression for junior doctors, replacing it with pay increases only at points of responsibility which the consultants worry will discriminate against trainee medics.
As junior doctors are training until they become consultants, they can quite easily be 35-years-old with children.
The consultants fear the removal of the pay progression will discriminate against junior doctors taking parental leave as well as those who take time out to study more to ensure patients have the best care possible.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "Junior doctors work incredibly hard and, as we have consistently said, we want to reward them fairly while ensuring that patients get proper 7 day care.
"We have already given absolute assurances that we are not going to save a penny from the junior doctors' pay bill, and will reduce the number of hours doctors are asked to work.
The BMA continues to mislead its members and refuses to negotiate on a new contract. As many Royal Colleges have urged, the best way forward is for the BMA to come back to the table."


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From the bestselling author of THE LIONS OF LUCERNE and PATH OF THE ASSASSIN comes another electrifying international thriller featuring all-American hero Scot Harvath, as he plunges into the frigid heart of the Russian tundra to save the fragile state of the union. On a cold January morning, the United States awakes to discover that an old enemy, one long believed dead and buried, has crawled out of its grave to lay siege to the world's only superpower. With the stunning discovery that enhanced Soviet-made suitcase nukes have been secreted in America's major cities, President Jack Rutledge gathers his National Security Council to weigh the feasibility of a first strike against the Russian Federation. There's only one problem. For over two decades, the Russians have been funnelling international aid money into a top secret air defence system, which has just been brought on-line and which will render any conventional attack upon their country utterly ineffective. After exhausting all of his other options, and with Soviet sleeper agents preparing to detonate their deadly payloads across the United States, the president turns to the nation's final hope, ex-Navy SEAL and Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath. As high-voltage and timely as they come, STATE OF THE UNION is a frighteningly real, headline-ripping tale of espionage and intrigue that will keep readers guessing until the last tantalizing piece of the puzzle locks into place.
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The Publishers Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan's that Institute of Indian Culture in Bombay-needed a Book University, a series of books which, if read, would serve the purpose of providing higher education. Particular emphasis, however, was to be put on such literature as revealed the deeper impulsions of India.
The Introduction of the author of the book Shri N. Ramesan, M.A, I.A.S (born December 1921 at Tiruchirapalli, Madras State) has had a distinguished acadernic career, passing with First Class in English, Sanskrit and Mathematics from St. Joseph's College. He was recruited to the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (Class I) in 1945.
Aryavarta is a land of holy temples and shrines and sacred rivers and mountains. The temples from ancient days are places where every Hindu has to do his puja and worship to the divine.
Srisailam is situated in the thick and inaccessible forests of the Nallamalai hills, in the north eastern portion of the Nandikotkur taluk of Kurnool District. It is 73 miles north of Nandyal Railway Station.
Ahobalam is a religious centre of very great antiquity. It is situated at a distance of thirty miles from Nandyal Railway station of Kurnool District. The Ahobalam is a plateau 2,800 above sea level.
The Alampur temples are situated on the western bank of the Tungabhadra river. Alampur can be reached from Hyderabad by railway on Hyderabad Bangalore route.
Lepakshi is a small village which lies nine miles east of Hindupur in Anantapur District of Andhra. Hindupur is a railway station on the main metre-gauge line between Hyderabad and Bangalore, and from Hindupur.
Tadpatri of Anantapur District, is a railway station on the miles from Guntakal, which is an important junction on it. One can reach Tadpatri from Guntakal either by road or by train.
Across the Kurnool district the ghats run in two parallel anges. The range that lies towards the east is called the Nallamalai, and Mahanandi is situated in one of these hills.
Tirupati is the most sacred Vaishnavite temple, of Andhra Desa. Tirupati lies in the midst of the Seshachalam Hills at a distance of seven miles from the Tirupati East Railway Station.
Kalahasti is a town in the Chittoor District of Andhra, and it is a Railway Station on the Renigunta-Gudur section. The temple and the town are situated in beautiful natural surroundings.
The village Chezerla is situated at a distance of miles west of Narasaraopet in the Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh. The Temple here is dedicated to Lord Siva.
Amaravati has made Andhra sculpture a byword among the plastic arts of the world. This place, which is situated in Sattenapalli Taluk of Guntur District, is also famous as the seat of a temple to Lord Siva worshipped here as Lord Amareswara.
Mangalagiri is situated on the Bezwa miles by road from Vijayawada. The nearest railway station is Mangalgiri on the Guntur-Vijayawada line but to visit the temple, the better course would be to get down either at Vijayawada or at Guntur and take bus comfortable stay here.
Vijayawada is practically the centre of Andhra in all its aspects.It is an important junction in the Madras - Calcutta, Madras-Delhi routes, and probably the foremost town of Andhra.
Akiripalli which is in Nuzvid of Krishna District is the seat of an important and sacred temple dedicated to Lord Sobhananchala Swami. The deity is Vyaghra Narasimha, who was incarnated in a cave on the top of the hill.
Draksharama is situated at a distance four miles from Ramachandrapuram which is a taluk headquarters of East Godavari District of Andhra. The name Draksharama is said to be a corrupted form of 'Daksha' 'arama' or the garden of Dakshaprajapathi.
Kotipalli which is in Rama-Chandrapuram taluk of East Godavari Distriti is famous as the seat of an ancient temple where Lord Siva is worshipped as Sri Someswaraswamy. It can be reached from Kakinada or from Rajahmundry which are important stations on the Madras Calcutta line.
Annavaram can be reached by the Southern Railway and the Grand Northern Trunk Road. The nearest railway station is Annavaram which is two miles from the temple.
Simhachalam, also called Simhagiri, is about ten miles to the north of Visakha- patnam, which is a District Headquarters of Andhra.
At Arasavalli, which is practically the same as Sri- kakulam, th headquarters of the northernmost district of Andhra Pradesh, there is a temple of Lord Surya.Temples dedicated to the worship of Lord Surya are rare in our country.
Srikurmam is a famous temple situated at a distance about twelve miles east of Srikakulam at the extreme south of the taluk and very near the coast. The temple which dedicated to Lord Vishnu in the Avathara of the Avathara of tortoise.
Bhadrachalam is a famous temple dedicated to Lord Sri Ramachandra and situated on the banks of the sacred river Godavari.Sri Ramachandra himself lived for some time, before Seeta wass carried away by Ravana.
Yadagiri or, as it is popularly known, "Yadagiri-Gutta", is one of the important and holy places of Nalgonda District. The temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu as Narasimha andthe God here is known as Laxminarasimhaswamy.
Vemulavada is in karimnagar District of Andhra Pradesh. Vemulavada is famous as the seat of a Western chalukya temple known as the Rajeswar swami temple.
Dharmapuri is one of the oldest villages in Andhra Pradesh situated in karim- nagar District of the Telengana region.The village is a famous and renowned one,as a centre for Vedic studies.
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The inheritance of genetic disease depends on ancestry that must be considered when interpreting genetic association studies and can provide insights when comparing traits in a population. We compared the genetic profiles of African Americans with sickle cell disease to those of Black Africans and Caucasian populations of European descent and found that they are less genetically admixed than other African Americans and have an ancestry similar to Yorubans, Mandenkas and Bantu.
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is caused by a point mutation in the β-hemoglobin gene (HBB glu6val) leading to the synthesis of sickle hemoglobin (HbS), which polymerizes when deoxygenated, distorting and injuring the red blood cell. Patients with sickle cell anemia are homozygous for this mutation and suffer from acute vasoocclusive events, hemolytic anemia, organ damage and failure, and an average lifespan reduction in developed countries of more than three decades [1]. The sickle hemoglobin mutation reached polymorphic frequency in areas of Africa—other origins of the HbS gene were in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent—where malaria was prevalent, as carriers have a survival advantage and are more likely to survive to reproduce. In the United States, sickle cell anemia is most common among African Americans [1].
African Americans have from 20% to 30% genetic admixture with Europeans [2]. Studies using very limited genetic data have suggested that the HbS gene was more prevalent in African Americans with less Caucasian genetic admixture by examining the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) genotypes in 48 subjects [3]. We used approximately 250,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) throughout the genome to examine the level of admixture and genetic ancestry of 1,810 African Americans with SCD and compared patients' genetic profiles to three groups of African Americans without SCD and several Black African and Caucasian European populations. African Americans with SCD have less Caucasian admixture than African Americans without the disease; their ancestry is most similar to the Yoruban, Mandenka and Bantu populations in Western Africa. These observations can be applied to the interpretation of genetic association studies, particularly when the trait of interest is related to the level of admixture.
Genome-wide SNP data were combined from 8 different datasets (Table 1). Patients with sickle cell disease were pooled from the Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea (MSH) [4], NIH Pulmonary Hypertension Study [5] (NIH-PH), Boston University Pulmonary Hypertension Study (BU-PH) [6], and the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease (CSSCD) [7]. For comparison, we included African Americans without sickle cell disease by pooling subjects from the Multi-Institutional Research in Alzheimer's Genetic Epidemiology (MIRAGE) study [8], randomly selected subjects from the Illumina repository and the HapMap [9] panel of subjects with African ancestry in Southwest USA (ASW). As reference populations, we included 4 additional HapMap populations and 14 African and European populations from the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) [10] including the HapMap Yoruba in Ibadan, Nigeria (YRI), Luhya in Webuye, Kenya (LWK), Maasai in Kinyawa, Kenya (MKK), the CEPH Utah residents with Northwestern European Ancestry (CEU), Bantu, Biaka, Mandenka, Mbuti pygmy, San, HGDP Yoruba, Adygei, Basque, French, Italian, Orcadian, Russian, Sardinian and Tuscan.
MSH, NIH-PH, BU-PH and MIRAGE samples were genotyped using the Illumina 370K array; CSSCD samples were genotyped on the Illumina 610K array; African Americans from the Illumina repository were genotyped on the Illumina 550K array; European and African populations from the Illumina repository were genotyped on the Illumina 650K array; HapMap populations had genotypes for approximately 1.5 million SNPs available. Autosomal SNPs appearing in all arrays were used for the ancestry analysis yielding 253,880 SNPs with a call rate greater than 95% and minor allele frequency greater than 5%. All subjects had a call rate greater than 93% and all individuals with an identity by descent estimate greater than 0.30 indicating first degree relatives were excluded from the analysis.
To examine the ancestry of these subjects, we performed a principal component analysis [11] (PCA) using the genome-wide set of SNPs, which passed quality controls for all subjects, and then applied a clustering algorithm to group individuals with similar ancestry [12]. PCA is the standard approach to detecting underlying population substructure using genome-wide SNP data and reduces the dimension of the data by summarizing the largest amount of variability in the data to the top axes of variation called principal components (PCs). The top PCs often correspond to ancestry or geographic origin. To understand the joint pattern formed by the PCs, we applied our clustering algorithm to the top PCs to form clusters grouping individuals with similar ancestry together and separating individuals with differing ancestry. We also estimated the genetic distance between the clusters using the Fst statistic to further understand the relationship among the populations. Fst is defined as the proportion of genetic diversity due to allele frequency differences among populations and can be interpreted as the distance between populations [2].
The clustering algorithm is described in detail in [12]. Briefly, it first identifies the top ancestry informative PCs by inspecting a heatmap and a scree plot of the top 20 PCs for patterns (Figure 1). Next, subjects are clustered with respect to the top PCs using k-means clustering for a range of cluster sizes (2–30). The algorithm provides a scoring index for each cluster size to automatically identify the optimal number of clusters. The scoring index averages measures of the accuracy of the subjects' cluster assignments, the stability of k-means clustering, and the ability of k-means to maximize the distance between clusters. The PCA and Fst estimates were computed using the software EIGENSOFT [11]. We used Fisher's exact test to determine whether a higher percentage of African Americans without SCD compared to African Americans with SCD was more similar to Caucasians.
The top 13 PCs were most informative (Figure 1) and the cluster algorithm created 12 distinct clusters of varying ancestry (Figure 2). Caucasian subjects (Clusters 1, 7 and 12, Table 2 and Figure 2) are clearly separated from African subjects and the first two principal components (PCs) capture the admixture among the African Americans (Figure 3). The Biaka, San, Mbuti pygmy and the majority of the MKK (Maasai in Kinyawa, Kenya) fall into separate clusters with little similarity with African Americans (Table 2, Figure 2). Cluster 8 includes the largest concentration of African Americans with and without SCD, 55% and 43% respectively, all of the Yoruban, Mandenka and part of the Bantu population (Table 2, cluster 8). The greater similarity of African Americans with these Western African groups is consistent with the historical record of the North American slave trade [13]. Clusters 2 and 5 contain most of the remaining African Americans with and without SCD, but none of the other African or Caucasian population (Table 2). These 2 groups, nevertheless, are genetically very similar to cluster 8 as measured by the Fst statistic (Fst = 0.0001) (Table 3). The remaining African Americans cluster into clusters 1, 7, and 12 all of which contain Caucasian populations indicating that these African Americans have a high level of Caucasian admixture. Cluster 1 shows admixture with Mediterranean populations (Basque, Italian, Tuscan and Sardinian), cluster 7 with Adygei subjects (southeastern Europe) and cluster 12 with northern European populations (French, Orcadian, Russian, HapMap CEU). A significantly higher percentage (p < 0.0001) of African Americans without SCD fall into these clusters (1,7,12) than African Americans with SCD, indicating that African Americans with SCD have less Caucasian admixture (Table 2). For this comparison we collapsed clusters 2–6 and 8–11, which do not contain any Caucasians from HGDP, into one cluster.
To our knowledge, this is the first analysis of population substructure in African Americans with sickle cell disease using genome-wide data. African Americans with SCD are less admixed than the general population of African Americans and their genetic substructure is most similar to Yorubans, Mandenkas and Bantus. We speculate that African Americans with SCD are less admixed because they must inherit two copies of the sickle mutation that is more common among African populations. Subjects with higher levels of Caucasian admixture are less likely to carry the sickle mutation and thus less likely to pass it to their offspring. An important consequence of our analysis is that Yorubans would be the most appropriate reference panel of the HapMap population when imputing unknown or missing SNPs in genome-wide association studies in SCD.
Understanding genetic architecture can be vital for interpreting genetic association studies and provide new insights into phenotypic differences between populations. For example, in our studies of the modulation of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) in sickle cell anemia, we found that in the Southwestern Province of Saudi Arabia, SCD patients have HBB-gene cluster haplotypes of African origin with a distribution very similar to that of African Americans, yet have HbF levels almost twice as high [14]. When we examined the genetic population structure of these Saudi patients, it resembled Arab populations despite the presence of an "African" HbS gene [13]. In these two populations the commonality of HBB haplotypes coupled with the genetic distance between these populations suggested that the evolution of unique genetic modifiers or unknown environmental influences might account for the higher HbF in Saudi patients.
Supported by NIH grants R01 HL 87681 and R01 HL 068970 (MHS), R01 AG09029 and R01 AG025259 (LAF).
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Authorship Contributions NS, SWH, developed the database worked on bioinformatics, performed all analyses and revised the manuscript. CTB performed SNP genotyping. LAF provided phenotype and genotype data on the MIRAGE Study subjects. ESK, MG, GK and JT provided patient information and edited the manuscript. PS, LAF, CTB, and MHS conceived the study, wrote the manuscript, analyzed data and revised the manuscript.
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The cost of repairing damage wrought by superstorm Sandy will exacerbate Long Beach's considerable financial woes, city leaders say.
The city, which saw its boardwalk, sewer system and downtown business district damaged by Sandy, is looking at total costs of more than $200 million.
City Manager Jack Schnirman estimated Wednesday the city could be on the hook for about $12.5 million under Federal Emergency Management Agency cost-sharing rules. The city -- which approved 14.5 percent in tax increases this year that will allow it to pay down a $10.25 million deficit over three years -- can't afford such a bill, he said.
Schnirman and other city officials said they will scour state and federal sources for assistance to bridge the gap.
But prospects are daunting, said City Council president Len Torres, adding that the $200 million "makes the $10 million that we were in deficit look like a playground. In a lot of ways, I'm nervous."
Long Beach has an annual budget of $88 million, less than half the cost of Sandy's damage to the city.
Two-and-a-half weeks after the storm, city streets remain littered with debris and trashed household belongings. But signs of normalcy are slowly returning -- businesses have begun to reopen downtown, and a mandatory evacuation notice was rescinded Wednesday. And limited LIRR service is back.
FEMA is working with the city to help pay for the damages, said John Mills, an agency spokesman. FEMA pays for portions of work such as debris removal -- including 100 percent of associated labor costs -- and infrastructure repairs, he said.
"FEMA is committed to working with Long Beach and all other affected communities to understand what is eligible and what is not," Mills said.
Similarly, the state can try to provide relief, but Albany "can't create money," said Assemb. Harvey Weisenberg (D-Long Beach).
Despite the city's tenuous fiscal state, "we will need to address the financial challenge that this natural disaster presents to the city," said Schnirman, adding that the city is "at the beginning of this process."
He declined to speculate how much Long Beach taxpayers might eventually have to shoulder.
For now, the city needs to work closely with state and federal governments to make sure it gets every dime of aid possible, said City Councilman John McLaughlin.
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Green Up, Clean Up and Eat Up!
The Surfrider Foundation will hold its March cleanup at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront on Sunday, 3/19 at 4 pm at 33rd Street. We'll celebrate the end of St. Patrick's Day weekend by cleaning up our resort beach then heading over to Dough Boys for a pizza party. Our friends at Dough Boy's Virginia Beach on 33rd Street will be offering up some specials on pizzas and beverages after the cleanup so we hope that you'll come hang with us! Dress in your favorite GREEN attire and we'll have some prizes for best dressed!
Surfrider Foundation – Virginia Beach Chapter will supply bags, gloves, grabbers and data cards. Be sure to wear appropriate clothing for the weather and bring water and snacks if needed. Keep an eye on this event page for updates if the weather looks iffy. Hope to see you out there!
Please note: We've changed the time of our cleanup to 4 pm instead of our usual 2 pm due to Shamrock Weekend activities. Hoping that parking will be freed up by that time. Might be a good idea to carpool just in case.
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TORONTO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Brookfield Office Properties BPO.N BPO.TO said on Thursday it has acquired a 53-storey office tower in Houston for $321.5 million.
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The acquisition was financed using available liquidity and a $200 million fixed-rate 4.97 percent loan maturing in January 2023, the company said in a statement.
The building is 84-percent leased with Deloitte and EOG Resources as anchor tenants. (Reporting by Ka Yan Ng; editing by Peter Galloway)


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Navy hero remembered locally
The battle of Fort Oswego in upper New York state, was a success for the Royal Navy, thanks in part to the actions of Miller Worsley.
Miller Worsley was not some cast-off from the Royal Navy, sent off to Canada to fulfill some half-hearted commitment to the defence of British North America when the United States declared war in 1812.
No, he was part of a core of highly regarded, mostly younger, officers meant to be the backbone of the naval force on the Great Lakes.
His backstory with the Royal Navy made for impressive reading considering he was only 22 years old and first lieutenant when he joined Robert Heriot Barclay, Daniel Pring, and others in a Royal Navy deployment on Lake Ontario in 1813. By 1814 he was first lieutenant in the crew of the Princess Charlotte, a 42-gun frigate.
The Princess Charlotte was a new ship, built in Kingston. She was under the command of William Mulcaster. Barrie residents may recognize both Worsley and Mulcaster - the city's streets of the same names are in honour of the pair of naval officers from this ship.
On May 5, 1814, this new vessel accompanied a squadron sailing for Fort Oswego on the southwest shore of Lake Ontario in northern New York State. Mulcaster's mission was to lead a 200-man force to attack the fort from its western flank while the ship carried reserve troops and shelled the fort with her 24-pounder long guns. At 1 p.m. local time, the ship began bombarding the fort while Mulcaster landed his men, with Worsley among them, attacking the main shore battery. Mulcaster was wounded in the thigh but Worsley helped continue the attack, which successfully captured the battery, putting it out of action. The reserve troops from the Princess Charlotte were put on shore and the supplies and goods captured from the fort were loaded onto the squadron ships which then returned to Kingston.
The same squadron was detailed with blockading the American main base on Lake Ontario at Sackets Harbour - at the far east edge of the lake. By now the Princess Charlotte was under command of Captain Edward Collier. (Barrie's Collier Street is named after him.) This action was not successful and the Princess Charlotte was returned to Kingston for the rest of the summer.
But Worsley's ability to lead men in action on both land and on ship led to his new posting to commanding the naval reinforcement for Fort Michilimackinac. He replaced Lieutenant Newdigate Poyntz (Barrie's Poyntz Street is named after him) who had annoyed the base commander at Fort Michilimackinac to the point where Poyntz had to go. The base commander's name at the time was Lt. Col. Robert McDouall. (McDonald Street in Barrie was originally named after McDouall.)
Worsley made his way to his new command with 20 seamen, marching north from Toronto along Yonge Street to Lake Simcoe, taking a schooner from near Bradford to Barrie and then taking the Nine Mile Portage to Willow Creek Depot in Vespra and from there travelling down Willow Creek to the Nottawasaga River to Wasaga Beach, where he arrived in July 1814. There he took command of the former North West Company's schooner, Nancy.
The Nancy was a wanted ship. The Americans wanted her sunk. The ship was the Royal Navy's main source of supply and communication for outposts on the Upper Great Lakes - most importantly, supplying and providing troop transport and communication with Fort Michilimackinac.
In fact, while Worsley was toiling over the water and forests of central Ontario to report to his new command, the Americans had assembled a force of five ships and more than 1,000 troops with the sole mission of capturing Fort Michilimackinac or, failing that, capturing or sinking the Nancy.
The first week of August saw the failure of the large American force to capture Michilimackinac. So the United States naval captain, Arthur Sinclair, went for the second option -- capturing or sinking the Nancy.
Worsley was already sailing to Michilimackinac when he was warned the fort was under siege, so he returned to Wasaga Beach, made his way up the Nottawasaga River to where the Schoonertown Bridge is today and weighed anchor. He ordered a blockhouse be constructed and armed with guns from the Nancy. Sinclair split his force, sending three ships, the Niagara, Scorpion and Tigress, with 300 troops, to find and attack the Nancy. Worsley had the job of defending the last British ship on Lake Huron, with only 50 seamen and some First Nation warriors.
On Aug. 14 the Americans found the Nancy, despite Worsley ordering her masts be cut lower and the ship camouflaged with tree limbs to blend in with the surrounding forest.
Worsley and his small force defended the ship as long as possible but finally he ordered the guns be spiked and the ship scuttled with a charge of gunpowder. An American shell struck the blockhouse, setting fire to the Nancy before the order to scuttle her could be given. So she set adrift, on fire, and slowly was drawn by the current downstream to where Nancy Island is today, where she sank. Worsley and his men withdrew up the Nottawasaga, felling a few trees to hinder any Americans trying to follow them.
The American force remained at the mouth of the Nottawasaga but was forced to leave when a fierce late-summer storm swept in.
Worsley, who'd fallen back to the depot where Willow Creek and the Nottawasaga meet, loaded two bateaux and a canoe with men and supplies and on Aug. 18, made his way the 360 miles over one of the largest freshwater bodies of water in the world in open craft, "exposed to great hardships and privations of every description having only what we could shoot or catch by fishing to subsist on."
He arrived less than a week later at St. Joseph Island. On Aug. 29, he spotted the American ships, Tigress and Scorpion, and managed to hide his bateaux and sneak by in the canoe. The next day, he reached Michilimackinac and talked McDouall into combining forces to attack the two American ships and capture them.
On Sept. 3, Worsley - with four boats and 90 men, including members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - captured the American warship Tigress. It was stationed alone, not far from the British-held fort. (The British had captured Fort Michilimackinac from the Americans early in the war.)
Using the Tigress and flying the American flag, Worsley captured the Scorpion by pretending to be Americans as they coasted up to the side of the sister ship then suddenly changing flags and declaring they would attack the off-guard Americans if they didn't surrender. The Americans quickly surrendered.
This gave the British control of Lakes Huron and Michigan as well as Superior for the rest of the war.
Worsley was praised by his superiors for his actions on the Nancy, the Nottawasaga River and Lake Huron and the capture of the American ships. He was promoted the following summer. He returned to his hometown on the Isle of Wight where he died in 1833, aged 42, after being made inspector commander of the coast guard.
He didn't get the public recognition or career rewards other officers did for such daring actions. Wasaga Beach's Nancy museum is one of the few places to recognize Worsley's contributions, as is the Barrie street named after him.
Tom Villemaire is a former editor of papers in Simcoe County, including the Orillia Packet & Times, Midland Free Press, Barrie Examiner, Innisfil Examiner and Enterprise-Bulletin, and is the author of two history books. He now runs historylab.ca, podcasts and can be reached at email@example.com.


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Basketball Wives LA star Jackie Christie, wife of former NBA player Doug Christie, is receiving a lot of social media backlash after a Gofundme page belonging to her estranged daughter went viral.
_____________________________________ It's no secret that Jackie and her oldest daughter TaKari have a very strained relationship as it is known that the reality tv star refuses to acknowledge her daughter on the show while widely celebrating her relationship with her other daughter, Chantel.
TaKari has been very vocal about the fact that she believes her mother dislikes her because of her skin color and weight. Well, now she is in need after her son suffered burns from an accident while at his daycare. TaKari decided to open up a GoFundMe account:
_____________________________________ "Jaxson is a very happy- go- lucky lil 8 month old baby who was badly burned on his head, neck, and chest while being cared for at a local daycare earlier this week," the account read. "Due to the extent of his injuries he has to go at least once a week to Harborview M.C. to meet with the children's burn unit. His mother cannot go to work and doesn't have enough vacation time to cover the extended leave she will need to provide around the clock care for Jaxson. At this point their family needs assistance to cover the financial hardships that this horrible injury will create in the near future until any legal matters are handled. This includes things such as transportation to and from Seattle each week, some bills, groceries, etc. Any little bit counts and will be greatly appreciated by Kari and her children. If you can't donate it's okay, but if you can share this page that would help greatly! Thank you very much." _____________________________________
What's infuriating to many is that all TaKari is asking for is $3,000 but why would she need to ask for such an amount when her mother is worth millions? To make things worse— read more at TheShadeRoom.com (link in bio)
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