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MSP tours make area a destination
Published: Friday, September 26, 2014
By: Mark Mehmert
On August 19, Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) Director Diane Gillespie was all smiles. The function was a press conference to announce the resumption of full tours of the MSP facility, and it was a day which was long in the making.
At the end of September of 2013, the CVB temporarily suspended all tours of the historic prison site due to the discovery of a significant mold problem. Later, those same mold issues forced the CVB to cancel the remainder of the 2013 tours.
"Those were difficult days, but we immediately started working with the Office of Administration to determine what could be done to get the tours back up and running safely", remembered Gillespie. "It was difficult, but it was the right thing to do."
The CVB staff worked with the Office of Administration, our local state legislative delegation of State Senator Mike Kehoe, Representative Jay Barnes, Representative Mike Bernskoetter, Mayor Eric Struemph, the City Council as well as city and Chamber staff to formulate a solution to the problem.
The result was a 15-year agreement for the CVB to operate Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP) tours, with options for two five-year extensions. The city and the Office of Administration jointly funded the hazardous materials remediation and necessary repairs, which came in under budget.
Why go to extraordinary lengths to ensure not only that the MSP endures, but also that the tours continue? The short answer is, not only has MSP has been a fixture of our area since 1836 and is a part of the fabric of our area's history—it's also an economic engine.
It's expected approximately 20,000 people will take a tour of MSP this season, and that's in a construction and repair-shortened season.
The fact the MSP is a tourism draw is evident any Saturday during the tour season. If one were to take a drive by MSP, there are many vehicles from a vast array of states. Visitors tour the Missouri State Penitentiary and while they are in Jefferson City, they eat at our restaurants, purchase fuel at our gas stations, shop at our stores, likely overnight at our hotels, and more.
The MSP tours have wide appeal, drawing visitors from 37 States in the last full season, and even drawing international interest. For example, a couple from Sweden flew into St. Louis last year--however, St. Louis was not their destination. They specifically flew from Sweden to Missouri to tour the Missouri State Penitentiary.
While they were in Jefferson City, they toured the Capitol, Governor's Mansion and Supreme Court, too. Jefferson City is not only America's Most Beautiful Small Town,


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You may think that card games and board games are just for kids, but Top Trumps is actively proving you wrong.
I was recently sent a very generous bundle of Top Trumps games, focusing mostly on their Harry Potter series. You may not have heard of Top Trumps games, but they've actually been around for 35 years and have been a best-selling game in England since the 1970s!
This blog is mostly focused on film and travel, two topics that don't always intersect easily… but Top Trumps actually bridges the gap very well. It's one of the easiest games I've learned to play, and it's the perfect game to bring along with you on travels. Whether you play it in the airport, a train, a hotel, or on a plane… its compact design and simple directions make it the ideal travel game.
I haven't played with each pack yet, but I've gone through all of them and looked at all the cards. The game is the same regardless of your pack, they just vary in theme. Aside from Harry Potter, I also received some Marvel and DC packs.
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The dealer passes out cards to every player until all cards are passed out. Each player can only look at one card at a time. The player to the dealer's left picks a category on their card. After the player calls out their character, category, and level, everyone does the same for their card. Whoever has the highest number in that category wins and takes everyone else's cards. The goal of the game is to be the one with all the cards in the end aka the Top Trump. I think of this game as the lovechild of Egyptian Ratscrew and Pokémon.
You don't have to be a hardcore Potter (or Marvel and DC) fan to play any of these games! Although, there is another facet to the game if you are because it's interesting to see all the scores of different strengths for the various characters. If you're playing with other fans, this is something that would be fun to debate and discuss.
Also as a fan, I lowkey want to just collect some of these cards and put them on display. Some of the packs have such beautiful designs! They're all wonderfully designed, but both of the Deathly Hallows packs are my personal favorites.
Another really cool thing about these games is the strength levels change throughout the packs, which is definitely notable for all the Harry Potter ones. For example, Harry's magic level is obviously much higher in the Deathly Hallows deck than in the the Prisoner of Azkaban deck. So make sure you keep your desks separate! However, I found that Dumbledore is consistently one of the strongest characters in every pack. No surprise there. He's like having a jack in Egyptian Ratscrew.
And now for the best part… I've teamed up with Top Trumps to offer you a chance to win some games of your very own. The giveaway will be held over on Twitter, and three lucky winners will be receiving a bundle of Top Trump games! Find out how to enter below, and good luck!
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Faithless and Perverse - Luke 9.37-43
When Jesus comes down from the mountain, He immediately gets hit with trouble. And so it is with us most of the time. You get blessed in your morning time of Bible study and prayer only to get walloped at work half an hour later. Or you come back from a retreat only to get slapped with strife at home. We must remember that the God we meet on the mountain will also give us victory in the valley.
Today's story is another demonstration of Jesus' compassion and power. This is the third "only child" He has healed in Luke's gospel: Jairus' daughter was first, then the son of the widow of Nain. Jesus, being an only child himself, seems to have special compassion for those families where the loss of a child is particularly devastating. The point is clear: Jesus has compassion on all who suffer - including you and me.
With regard to Jesus' power, even though the disciples and the crowd are accused of unbelief, the demon seems to understand very well what is happening when the boy is brought to Jesus, and the filthy creature goes hog wild in a last-ditch effort to destroy the young man's life. Yet with a simple, clam, unagitated word, the power of Jesus Christ over all darkness is made concrete, and the once hopeless case is now a case for the record books. The boy is restored.
Do you have a hopeless case? ARE you a hopeless case? Not with Jesus you're not! The power of Jesus Christ over all your sin and all your pain is absolute. You need only to come to Him in genuine, honest faith and listen to His voice. You will be set free, and if the Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed.
So there is hope in today's story for you who encounter trouble when you come down from the mountain each day, there is compassion for your wounds and your hurts, and there is power for your need. If you hear nothing else today, rejoice in that truth!
But I want to focus our attention on this disturbing verse, right in the middle where Jesus says something very strange. In verse 41, we stumble on this shocker: "Then Jesus answered and said, 'O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you?'"
That doesn't sound very nice, Jesus! What do You mean, "faithless and perverse generation"? Well, for one, "generation" is not referring to an age group the way we do: millennials or baby boomers. Generation is used more in the sense of a "people" and is meant to refer directly to the offspring of Israel. So Jesus is talking to the people all around Him, the children of Israel he came to first. But more specifically, he is referring to his disciples, the nine who were in the valley while he was on the mountain with Peter, James, and John. Matthew and Mark tell the same story, and they make it clear that the failure to heal is directly the fault of the disciples, whose faith is weak and misplaced.
In Mark's account of this same story, he adds a few more details. Mark records that Jesus tells His disciples afterward that, "This kind can come out by nothing but prayer." (Mk 9.29) Basically, he is telling His disciples, "You forgot to pray." Think of that! Jesus, who is always sneaking off to pray when he can get a few minutes, is telling His ambassadors that they fail because they do not pray. And they do not pray because they do not have faith. A person who has faith brings everything to God in prayer. A person who does not have faith tries to do everything on their own, without asking for help. In that sense, faith is simply asking God for help!
Do you make it a habit to pray? When you encounter a challenge that is too hard for you or when you realize that all hope seems lost, do you have faith as a child that asks your Abba father, your daddy, for help? Or do you curse under your breath and keep trying to fix it yourself? That is what happened with the disciples here -- Jesus calls such behavior "faithless" and rightly so. We must learn to bring everything to God in prayer. When we do God's work in our own power, we will fail. When you bring it to Him, every valley shall be as exalted as the mountain where His glory shone.
Next Jesus uses this even more troubling word to describe His disciples: "perverse" which also means "misguided" or "twisted." This seems a very harsh thing to say. The father says, "I implored Your disciples to cast it out, but they could not." (Luke 9.40)
Of course they could not, because they were trying to do it themselves. No disciple has any power except that which God allows them to have.
The moment you believe there is something special about you that enables you to make God's glory manifest, you have altogether perverted the way of Christ. Instead of simply believing that God can do it, we resort to foaming at the mouth, getting whipped up by raising our voices, praying extra fancy, extra loud prayers, prescribing all sorts of religious shenanigans that only make things worse. One can only imagine what sorts of things this disciples were doing to try to conjure up the power of God on their own -- I picture a sideshow-style preacher slapping people on the forehead while he sweats like a pig on stage under tv lights. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but I know very well the attraction and the danger of getting in God's way when you are up front.
Jesus calls this perverse. Why couldn't you drive it out? You forgot to get out of God's way. You were supposed to be running the spotlight, shining it on Him, but you got greedy and wanted the spotlight for yourself. That is what false religion is all about -- stealing the spotlight from God. It has a sense of the truth, but it is twisted, misplaced, perverted. Religion is powerless to save. God alone can heal.
"How long...?"
Finally, Jesus utters those hard but honest words, "How long shall I be with you?"
Do you get the sense that He is somewhat exasperated with the disciples? Yet, even though He is frustrated with their lack of faith and their twisting of the truth, He doesn't leave them. He could have ended it all right then, if He had wanted to. But His time had not yet come.
And that is something we need to be reminded of. Have you ever wanted to escape from your trouble? Just close the doors, draw the curtains, lock yourself away in a happy place? Or maybe you dream about taking a permanent vacation from your troubles -- skipping town without leaving a forwarding address. From this verse, I sense that Jesus himself knew that temptation. But He did not yield to it. You see, the truth is, God's desire is not that we should be taken out of the world, but that we should be in it, changing it, the way salt enlivens an ear of corn and the way a porch light changes a dark street.
Jesus said: "I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one." (John 17.15)
We may feel what Jesus felt from time to time -- "Lord, take me home now!" But we have no right to abandon the mission he has called us to. Throughout the centuries, Christians have always come up with creative ways to escape the valleys and hide away in the mountains. They used to literally hide away in caves as hermits. Then they built monasteries where they could wall-off the outside world. Nowadays we are more clever, but we commit the same sin: hiding behind political walls and closed circles of people who think and feel just like us. All of it done in the name of "shunning the world," but all of it -- every last bit -- is just as much a sin as cloistering yourself away in the false security of escapism. Jesus did not desert his post and run back to the mountain when the valley became too tough. He brought the power from the mountain with Him down into the valley. He did not hide the light behind a wall, but carried it into every dark corner of the world.
It will be time to go home soon, but it isn't time to go home today. We still have work to do. "But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." (Hebrews 13.13, KJV)
Echoes of the Exodus
There is one more thing you should know about these hard words from Jesus. He didn't speak them first. He was quoting Moses. In Deuteronomy 32.5, Moses says this in his farewell speech to the children of Israel:
"They have corrupted themselves;
They are not His children,
Because of their blemish:
A perverse and crooked generation."
(Deuteronomy 32.5)
Moses knew that the chosen generation of God were always drawn back to the the slavery of stubborn selfishness. What Jesus experienced with the disciples, and what He still groans at with us today, is nothing new! The people of God have always been faithless and perverse: forgetful to pray and obstructing the light of God with the veil of religion. When Moses came down from his mountain, the people were worshiping a baby cow. Perverse indeed! Were the disciples doing anything less when Jesus came down from the mountain by attempting to drive the demon out on their own strength, playing to the will of the crowd, just like Aaron did?
The good news is this: that in spite of our stubbornness, in spite of our lack of faith, in spite of our twisting what is good into what is corrupt, God's mercy is great. Even when we are steeped in our sin, God himself has compassion on us. He doesn't walk away from you, even though He has every right.
Let's resolve here and now to set aside our faithless, perverse ways. Let's not be found foolish by trying to do things on our own, and instead ask our Heavenly Father, who loves us very much, for His help in our valleys. And for those here who serve the Lord, let us beware the miry clay of religion, and instead simply live lives of trust and obedience. That is where His power is revealed: in quietness and trust -- not in a show.
The rest of luke 9 reads like a laundry list of disciple fails. If someone really wanted to portray the disciples in a good light, they would have edited the whole rest of Luke 9 out. They really look bad. And yet, in spite of themselves, Jesus doesn't give up on them. Even when hey seem to give up on Him, He doesn't turn His back. He is there, forgiving and restoring. Not excusing their foolishness, mind you, but calling it for what it is, then forgiving it. God doesn't excuse our sins, He identifies and forgives them. There is a big difference between saying "Go and you never sinned at all" and "Go and sin no more." Jesus acknowledges our sin, then tells us we are forgiven. Won't you ask him to show you where you are faithless and twisted today? And then hear him say those marvelous words: "Where are your accusers?..." "Go and sin no more."


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Milestone Wyndham launch
Wyndham has always had a strong community connection and local support and the new building will continue that legacy.
This week, the existing 30 residents will move into their new home, including, Joyce Perry. Joyce's great grandparents were the Hopper family of Hoppers Crossing fame, and the extended family has had a long association with the area. Joyce has been a resident of Wyndham Lodge for almost nine years, its longest residing resident.
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Tommy Bowe has signed a new three-year deal to keep him at Ulster until June 2018.
The 30-year-old wing has signed a joint contract with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), just two days after in-demand full-back Rob Kearney committed his long-term future to Leinster.
Johnny Sexton's decision to return to Leinster next summer after two years in France was the first big victory in Ireland's battle to keep top stars on home soil.
Kearney and now Bowe completing quickfire new deals without fuss further boosts boss Joe Schmidt's long-range preparations for Rugby World Cup 2015.
"I am delighted to have signed a new contract with the IRFU and Ulster," said Bowe, who has won 55 caps.
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Last season the likes of Sean O'Brien and Jamie Heaslip came extremely close to shipping out to France, only to sign new Leinster and IRFU deals at the 11th hour.
Since former Wallabies front-rower Nucifora's arrival however, the IRFU has resolved to take a new approach to keeping top stars in the provincial system.
Sexton's impending return from Racing Metro underscored that shift, with Kearney and Bowe quickly following suit in tying up new deals.
"We are delighted that Tommy has committed his future to Ulster and Ireland for the next three years," said Nucifora.
"Tommy has proven his value to Irish rugby over the years with stand-out performances for both Ulster and Ireland."
Ulster underwent widespread off-field changes in the summer, with coaches David Humphreys and Mark Anscombe both departing Ravenhill.
British and Irish Lions wing Bowe committing to a long-term new deal proves a welcome endorsement for head coach Neil Doak's reign, with Les Kiss poised to become Ulster's full-time rugby director after next year's World Cup.
"It is a great boost to the province that Tommy has signed a new IRFU contract which keeps him at Ulster," said Ulster CEO Shane Logan.
"We have seen what he brings to the squad both on and off the pitch and he is one of the players that makes Ulster Rugby such an exciting place to be."
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Planet G Hotel, Standard Double Room is the same as ZEN Rooms G Hotel La Union USD 42.99 per night San Juan, La Union 2514, Philippines San Juan, La Union 2514, Philippines
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- Cable TV Channel
- Designated Smoking Area
- Fan
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- Hotel Bar
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- Non Smoking Room
- Parking
- Private Bathroom
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Located at La Union, known as the Surfing Capital of the Philippines and the "Garden Coast" due to its bountiful botanical gardens, Planet G Hotel is perfect for business & leisure travelers. This hotel features 24 hour Security,a Hotel Bar & Restaurant and a Free Parking space. The hotel staff are kind and efficient making the stay in this hotel more pleasing and attractive.
There is no shortage of things to do or food to try within the vicinity of Planet G Hotel. Within short distance from the property are attractions and restaurants travelers can enjoy.
Surf Shack La Union (11 m)
Cube-O-Grill Resto Bar (36 m)
Urbiztondo Grill House (56 m)
Tagpuan sa San Juan (77 m)
Elyu Hideout (170 m)
El Union Coffee (500 m)
San Juan Beach (200 m)
Urbiztondo Beach (350 m)
People's Park (2.9 km)
San Juan La Union WATCHTOWER (3.2 km)
Ma-Cho Temple (Taoist Temple) (5.0 km)
BDO (4 m)
Surftown Lifestyle (22 m)
7 Eleven San Juan 2 (59 m)
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Planet G Hotel is close to major transportation hubs. It is 20 - minute drive to Rapid Kl Bus Station 1.
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- One child, 6 years old below, can stay for free using existing beds.
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- Free private parking is available on the site! Subject to availability at the time of check in.
- Only cash payment available if you choose to pay at the hotel.
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It's recipe time! Today I am very excited to welcome the first food contributor to Hanna's Places: Meet Belle! I found her blog, Cakelets and Doilies when I was falling down the rabbit hole of yummy recipes on Pinterest one day late at night. I'm so happy that she agreed to join Hanna's Places and contribute one of her brilliant recipes, a tomato quinoa risotto. As I told you yesterday, it took me quite some time to finally try out quinoa, so Belle's suggestion to make tomato quinoa risotto fitted perfectly! It's a flavoursome and hearty meal, especially good on a cold night.
Serves 2
250 grams cherry tomatoes, halved
Good drizzle of olive oil
Sprinkle of sugar and salt
1 tablespoon olive oil
20 grams butter
1 onion, finely chopped
600ml-800ml homemade or good quality vegetable stock
1 garlic cloves, crushed
Season with salt and pepper to taste
1 cup white quinoa
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1/4 cup white wine
1 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/4 cup basil leaves
Preheat oven to 160 degrees celsius. Place tomatoes, cut-side up, on a baking tray and drizzle with oil. Sprinkle with sugar and salt. Bake for 25 minutes or until softened.
Bring vegetable stock to the boil, reduce heat, and keep at a gentle simmer.
Rinse quinoa by placing the quinoa in a fine-mesh strainer, rinse thoroughly with water, drain and set aside.
Heat 1 tablespoon oil and butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and garlic, cook until it's soft without colouring. Add quinoa, stirring to coat the grains, then stir in tomato paste and wine. Simmer for 1 minute or until wine has evaporated. Add a ladleful of hot stock, stirring until most of the liquid has been obsorbed. Keep adding ladlefuls of stock, stirring, allowing each ladleful to be absorbed before adding the next. Turn the heat down if required. The quinoa is cook when the grains look almost translucent and the germ separates from the seed. I like the quinoa with a slight bite to it (al dente) and find that it needs only about 600ml of stock. Add more stock and cook for a bit longer if you prefer the quinoa less al dente.
When quinoa is cook to your liking, stir in roasted tomatoes and grated parmesan cheese. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Scatter with basil leaves and shaved parmesan cheese to garnish.
There you have it, a yummy tomato quinoa risotto. Let me know if you tried it!
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An Exploratory Trial of Ketamine for the Treatment of Rett Syndrome
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02562820
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Funding withdrawn)
First Posted : September 29, 2015
Last Update Posted : August 30, 2017
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Rett Syndrome (RTT) is a complex disorder resulting from mutations in a gene encoding the MeCP2 protein. Currently, there are no methods to fix the abnormal gene, however, animal studies suggest that the symptoms of RTT can be treated.
Ketamine is a sedative or anesthetic, depending on the dose. The drug is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is commonly used in children and adults. Animal studies and case reports in humans suggest that ketamine may reduce the symptoms of Rett syndrome. The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of ketamine for treating breathing and behavioral symptoms of RTT.
|Condition or disease
|Rett Syndrome
|Procedure: Intravenous infusion
|Phase 1
Families will be asked to maintain current prescription medications during the expected three-month duration of the study. However, clinically indicated medication alterations will naturally be permitted and recorded.
Each participant will experience four study days, separated by about a month. On three of the study days participants will be given Ketamine, and on the other day they will be given saline placebo.
Studies will be conducted in the Cleveland Clinic's General Clinical Research Unit which is an NIH-sponsored unit designed for studies such as this. Subjects will be admitted on the first day of each study sequence, and discharged the subsequent day. Study subjects will arrive at approximately 8:00 AM. Age, weight and height will be determined and prescription medications will be recorded. Subjects will be fitted with sensors for recording respiration, heart rate and brain electrical activity (electroencephalogram, or EEG). Treatment administration will start at noon. To avoid potential effects of circadian variation, treatment administration will start at the same time for each study day in each subject. Because the half-life of Ketamine is short (t1/2 = 10-15 minutes for sedation/anesthesia), we expect participating patients to be fully recovered from any potential sedating effects of Ketamine within an hour or two.
Each subject will be randomized to receive 3 of the 5 doses of Ketamine 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 or 4.5 mg/kg] plus placebo, for a total of 4 periods (visits). Ordering of the treatments will be randomized, with patients earlier in the study to receive lower doses of Ketamine.
The study drug will be given as a constant infusion at 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 or 4.5 mg/kg over the course of 40 minutes.
Apnea/breath-hold index, hyperventilation and cardio-respiratory coupling indices will be measured by polysomnography (PSG) before, during and after each treatment.
EEG will be recorded before, during and after each treatment.
Auditory evoked potentials (AEP) will be recorded on the day after each treatment.
Rett Syndrome Behavior Questionnaire (RSBQ) will be administered multiple times after each treatment, first in the hospital and then at home.
Repetitive Behavior Scale-Revised (RBSR) will be administered on the day after each treatment.
Before infusion and one hour after infusion, a few mL of peripheral blood will be sampled to measure bio-markers. Blood will be centrifuged and plasma will be frozen for subsequent analysis.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|4 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Ketamine for the Treatment of Rett Syndrome: An Exploratory Trial
|Study Start Date :
|November 2015
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2017
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2017
Experimental: Ketamine
Subjects will receive intravenous infusion of a 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 or 4.5 mg/kg dose over the course of 40 minutes
Procedure: Intravenous infusion
Intravenous infusion of Ketamine
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Subjects will receive an intravenous infusion of normal saline over the course of 40 minutes
Procedure: Intravenous infusion
Intravenous infusion of Normal Saline
- Behavioral phenomena requiring intervention [ Time Frame: From time of admission until time of discharge during any particular study visit, typically within 36 hours of admission. ]Occurrence of agitation, irritability, or worsening of pre-existing symptoms.
- Exploratory - Rett Syndrome Behavior Questionnaire (RSBQ) [ Time Frame: On the day following study drug infusion at each visit (30 - 36 hours after admission for each visit). ]A formal score obtained by administering the RSBQ to the subject's parent/guardian before and after every study visit.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|5 Years to 25 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Rett syndrome diagnosis based on the 2010 RTT diagnostic criteria, as determined by review of clinical records, and
- Pathogenic mutation in the MECP2 gene, and
- Breathing score of 3 or greater on RSBQ, and
- Age 5-25 years.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Ongoing clinical regression as determined by review of clinical records and consultation with parents, or
- Seizure within one week of study session, or
- Unstable systemic illness other than Rett syndrome, or
- Clinically important variations in medication use.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02562820
|United States, Ohio
|Cleveland Clinic
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
|Principal Investigator:
|Daniel Sessler, MD
|The Cleveland Clinic
|Responsible Party:
|The Cleveland Clinic
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|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|September 29, 2015 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|August 30, 2017
|Last Verified:
|August 2017
Rett Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Mental Retardation, X-Linked
Intellectual Disability
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Genetic Diseases, X-Linked
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Buskers to bring festive cheer to MRT stations, bus interchanges
There will be live music and other performances at selected MRT stations and bus interchanges from now till Christmas Eve.
Rail operator SMRT has scheduled performances at major bus interchanges and stations across the East-West, North-South and Circle Lines to spread the festive cheer.
The performances started on Monday at Orchard and Jurong East MRT stations.
Buskers entertained a lunchtime crowd outside Bugis MRT station's East-West Line exit yesterday, performing festive songs such as Silver Bells, Let It Snow and some Mandopop and Malay tunes.
It is the first time that SMRT has scheduled performances at MRT stations and bus interchanges in the lead-up to Christmas.
"It's much more lively with the music and performances. It's quiet on most days," said Miss Fateha Yunos, 27, an assistant station manager at Bugis MRT station.
Besides the performances, Christmas-themed stickers will be given out by 4,500 frontline SMRT staff and over 200 staff volunteers. To add to the festive mood, all SMRT passenger service centres have been decorated with special Christmas decals as well.
Ms Dawn Low, project chair of the SMRT festive cheer committee and managing director (commercial), said: "This festive cheer initiative is a joint effort across all our staff from trains, buses, taxis to come out and greet commuters at various MRT stations and bus interchanges."
At Bugis MRT yesterday, people stopped to enjoy the music or take videos of the buskers.
Ms Cheri Wu, 37, a banker, said: "It's a good initiative, it really brightens up the station. They should do this more."
She stopped to watch busking duo Ang Cheng Wei and Er Young Yee, both 25, who call themselves The Unemployed. The duo, who have been friends since junior college, performed English, Mandarin and Malay tunes.
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SEATON Tennis Club has launched a Saturday afternoon drop-in session for adult non-members, beginners and rusty players.
It's aimed at those who are new to the game or who enjoy tennis but haven't played for a while. No need for a racquet if you don't have one, just turn up with trainers and some comfortable sports kit, ready to have a go.
Club member Jo Wright was instrumental in getting things started with the full support of chairman Simon Prior.
Simon commented: "Jo's enthusiasm is infectious. The whole idea is to give anyone the chance to try out tennis for a couple of hours each week, in a relaxed atmosphere, with no need to join the club or worry about thinking they might not be good enough."
Rusty Racquets takes place every Saturday from 2pm to 5pm at Seaton Tennis Club in Court Lane, Seaton (behind the cricket ground). The cost is just £3 for non-members, including tea/coffee and biscuits, use of balls and a racquet if you need one. Open to all from 18 to 80!
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Bouchard: "The jersey is almost won"
September 12 th 2019 - 18:09
Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R La Mondiale) : "I took as many points as I could today. We knew it would be hard to resist Astana in the finale so we had to score as much as possible before the favorites came back. It's done, and I also finish up there, so it's not bad. I've never done a third week of racing so I'm going without too much pressure. I can't say if it will work or not. It's very much a mental thing. You need to be fresh in the morning in the bus. It's not always easy, but I want to ride my bike and I enjoy it. I'me super motivated for this kind of stages. The jersey is almost won. I managed to put some distance between me and my main rivals so it's a good thing."


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Arjay Miller, who as Ford Motor Company president modernized the company's management and marketed the original Mustangs, and who then switched to academia and elevated Stanford to the top ranks of America's graduate business schools, died on Friday at his home in Woodside, Calif. He was 101.
The cause was a stroke, his son, Kenneth, said.
Raised as a Nebraska farm boy, Mr. Miller was one of the so-called whiz kids who persuaded Ford to hire them in the late 1940s from Harvard, where they had perfected statistical management techniques for the Army Air Forces.
Originally called the "quiz kids" because they peppered their Ford colleagues with probing questions, the team included Robert S. McNamara, who would also become a Ford president and later secretary of defense in the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
During Mr. Miller's presidency, Ford reported record sales and earnings, introduced the Mustang and other slick-back models and revolutionized its stodgy management and financial practices.
When Congress demanded that Detroit do more to prevent accidents, Ford responded proactively by acknowledging that the industry had been slow to embrace auto safety and pledging to support whatever federal researchers recommended.
As the dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford, in Palo Alto, Calif., for a decade, Mr. Miller expanded the curriculum to include public policy, social issues and ethics; hired the first women onto the faculty; recruited more minority students; increased the endowment; and upgraded the school into a worthy challenger to the business schools of Harvard and the University of Chicago.
Mr. Miller was no ivory-tower dreamer or Detroit desk jockey, though.
After riots devastated the slums of Detroit and other cities in the summer of 1967, he was named by President Johnson to a board that helped found the Urban Institute to address the underlying causes of the unrest. He also founded the Economic Development Corporation of Greater Detroit to support black-owned and black-operated businesses.
Mr. Miller was the first major business executive to advocate a negative income tax to alleviate poverty — that is, giving a family with no income a basic grant and reducing but not eliminating it as the family gained income from other sources.
His political philosophy combined social conscience with self-interest.
"All we need to stay in business and grow," he once said, "is to have more people and higher incomes."
He was credited with having an encyclopedic arsenal of facts and figures and an insatiable curiosity, which he had evidenced since childhood, when he completely dismantled a vintage Model T that he bought for $10 to understand how it worked.
"The rescue of Ford from a morass of internecine chicanery and chaos cannot be laid at a single person's feet," Hemmings Classic Car magazine said in 2007, "but Miller unquestionably did a great deal of the heavy lifting to save the company.
"Unlike most heroes of the car business, he was not an engineer, stylist or designated product planner," the magazine continued. "Miller was, instead, a person who could reconcile the realities of interpreting reams of data and inspiring others to apply it logically. His talent allowed him, in turn, to manage an unprecedented war, to help remake a troubled manufacturing giant, and to realize his ultimate legacy by grooming a new generation of top executives."
Arjay Ray Miller was born on March 4, 1916, in Shelby, Neb., a village west of Omaha. The youngest of eight children, he was named for the first initials of his father, Rawley John Miller, a farmer. His mother was the former Mary Schade.
"I always thought it was some help coming from a rural situation," Mr. Miller told The New York Times in 1966. "You aren't so perplexed about the world: Milk came from a cow, not from the grocery store. Eggs came from a chicken."
After the family moved west, he earned a bachelor of science degree in finance and banking from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1937. As a teaching fellow and graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, he completed all the requirements for a doctorate except for his dissertation, then worked as an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Once the United States entered World War II, he tried to enlist in the military but was initially rejected because of poor eyesight. He was later drafted into the Army Air Forces, where he taught prospective pilots on a flight simulator and then was enrolled in a statistical regime for officers at Harvard.
When the war ended and he was discharged as a captain, Mr. Miller and the other nine members of his Harvard statistics group pitched themselves as a package deal to 100 companies. Only one, the Alleghany Corporation, responded.
Before they could be interviewed there, Mr. Miller saw a cover article in Life magazine about Henry Ford II's search for executive talent to revive the company, which had been losing money for 15 consecutive years, and retool it to a civilian economy.
After they sent a telegram to Ford requesting a meeting about "a matter of management importance," the company hired all 10.
Mr. Miller started in the finance department's analysis unit. Focusing on marketing and engineering, he was promoted to a vice presidency in 1957 and was named Ford's seventh president in 1963.
"We're lucky in the auto business," he told The Boston Globe in 1966. "So many businesses have to work hard to create a demand. But for us, the minute a kid hits 16 he automatically wants a car."
Yet he resented the notion that he was just an astute bean counter.
"We weren't a bunch of accountants," he told Automotive News in 2003. "We knew the importance of people."
Mr. Miller married Frances Fearing, an economist, in 1940; she died in 2010. They lived in Ann Arbor, Mich., a university town, rather than in Grosse Pointe or Bloomfield Hills, which were hubs for wealthy automobile executives.
In addition to their son, Mr. Miller is survived by their daughter, Ann Elizabeth Olstad; three granddaughters; and seven great-grandchildren.
In 1968, policy differences prompted Mr. Ford to name a new president. Mr. Miller became vice chairman of the company and dean at Stanford. He left as vice chairman a year later but stayed on the board until 1986.
While his salary dropped to about $40,000 a year from more than $400,000, he had always preferred academia — and besides, he still held Ford stock. He remained as dean at Stanford until 1979.
Mr. Miller was a leading proponent of incorporating ethics and social responsibility into the curriculum to lay the groundwork for cooperation between government and business.
"Moral judgment transcends legalities," he told The Times in 1979. In an article the next year, he made a similar point more bluntly.
"There are plenty of people in jail today," he said, "who passed college ethics courses."


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text: Gujarat approves Rs.597-cr for smart cities In its bid to fast track the smart city projects across the state, Gujarat government has allocated Rs. 597-cr under the Smart City Mission for Ahmedabad, Surat, and Vadodara cities. The government allocated Rs. 60-cr for a subordinate loan for the Metro project in Ahmedabad. Apart from flyovers, cities have got allocations to improve connectivity. The Ahmedabad-Bagodara-Rajkot six-laning project finally got an allocation of Rs. 50-cr in the budget. This will speed up transportation between Ahmedabad-Saurashtra, north Gujarat and Saurashtra. The government allocated Rs. 225-cr for automated super sucker machines and other equipment for all municipal corporations and district headquarters and also building four new shelter homes for orphans-one each in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, and Rajkot. Published: 25 February 2017 Prev Next


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Cancer and Impacts on Other Health Issues
Dealing with a cancer diagnosis impacts your life both physically and mentally. Awareness of these other possible health issues will help you best deal with your prognosis positively and address any additional concerns you may have.
Physical Impacts with Treating Cancer
Treating cancer may involve chemotherapy which has side effects to include: fatigue, nausea, and loss of appetite. These issues may result in:
- Weakened immune system.
- Higher risk to infections.
- Heart issues as the strength of the heart muscle may be reduced.
- Weight loss resulting in depletion of nutrients and needed vitamins, impacting the immune system.
- Becoming more sedentary due to weakness and fatigue that could result in hypertension.
Mental Health Factor with Treating Cancer
Treating cancer and the other health concerns can cause anxiety and depression not only for the patient but family members as well. Finding an organization that can serve as a resource in education, treatment options and, overall addressing physical and mental impacts is essential. Organizations like Choice Cancer Care Centers provide options, in particular, treating the whole person, not just the diagnosis.
Awareness and Focus on a Healthy Life
- Be aware of the impacts of chemotherapy and radiation therapy on your body.
- Get the sleep you need to give your body time to recover after therapy.
- Keep your diet in check with proper nutrients which may include a nutritionist to help you with meal planning to adjust to a new diet, based on low or increased appetite.
- Avoid being sedentary. Even if it is a small amount of physical activity such as walking your dog 5-10 minutes a day or taking a stroll with a friend at a local mall.
- Be aware of depression. Locate a support group to maintain a positive approach to treating your diagnosis and having a healthy mental outlook
Treating your cancer is manageable with the support and right resources. Being aware of other health issues that can arise will help you address and possibly avoid these issues as you focus on regaining your healthy life.


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The Chicago Cubs still have a couple of spots open on their roster after a pre-Christmas mini-shopping spree. As expected, the front office went after pitching reinforcements and so the roster is pitcher heavy as they have yet to target a backup catcher or reserve outfielders. There is plenty of money (theoretically, anyway) to make additional moves if they wanted, but if you're in the camp that says the Cubs are probably making the playoffs as is, then they're already in good shape and everything else is gravy. Of course, that's what we said when the Cubs (among other teams) lost out on Shohei Ohtani, but that was a long shot anyway.
Only 25 players can suit up for the Cubs come Opening Day, and there are still over three months until that happens, but in the absence of news, I'm bored and need to do something. So let's assume the good old Joe Maddon convention of using five starters (with the possibility of a six-man rotation ever looming), seven or eight relievers, two catchers, five or six infielders, and four or five outfielders, depending on who is versatile and what Joe wants to do.
Starters (5)
- Jon Lester
- Kyle Hendricks
- Jose Quintana
- Tyler Chatwood
- Unknown fifth starter (who slots in at #4 if they're better than Chatwood)
The fifth starter could be Mike Montgomery, who has expressed a desire to start. The Cubs are pretty sure he can start, too, but may disagree on how effective he would be as a full time starter. The more likely and probably safer bet is that they trade for or sign another starter, and they have been linked to Yu Darvish more lately.
Yu Darvish is on the #Cubs' radarhttps://t.co/C94DnEIMA6 via @MLBBruceLevine pic.twitter.com/vd7CyEXwka
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The Cubs certainly have the money to do this, and Darvish's World Series struggles aside, he has been a very good pitcher his entire career in MLB so far. I would expect this (or another) signing before spring training and shift Monty to the bullpen, where he would still be stretched enough to be the occasional sixth man.
Bullpen (8)
- Mike Montgomery
- Steve Cishek
- Carl Edwards Jr
- Justin Grimm
- Brandon Morrow
- Pedro Strop
- Justin Wilson
- As-yet-unknown eighth reliever, if needed (most likely needed)
I realize that if the eighth reliever is needed, then that means the Cubs will only have 12 position players, which they have done with great success recently given the group's versatility. The eighth reliever is probably necessary because of Monty's swingman role. This may come in the form of Dillon Maples, Rob Zastryzny, or a younger starter who just needs exposure to big league bats. The Cubs have been linked to certain relievers in trade like Zach Britton, and I say this because the bullpen is leaning righty so could probably use another lefty besides Monty and a recently shaky Wilson. So that's another move to look out for as the Cubs look to bolster their already solid (on paper) bullpen.
Catchers (2)
There's only one lock here, and that's Willson Contreras. I think Victor Caratini stays in Iowa to get work every day to develop as a legitimate backup, so the Cubs will look to sign a veteran backup. The smart money might be Rene Rivera, who already played with the team this past season and by all accounts is a good defender and clubhouse guy, and should be cheap. They could also try to bring back Alex Avila, who would be more expensive but at least give the Cubs a lefty bat for the platoon advantage against righties who would otherwise make Willson look silly.
Infielders (6)
The Cubs did tender a contract to La Stella, so he's most likely the infield backup and bench bat. The others you all know, and Ben Zobrist can shift between infield and outfield spots (although he's lost a step and would not be ideal defensively). This group is as locked in as you can get.
Outfielders (4)
By virtue of his large contract and his elite glove, Jason Heyward isn't going anywhere. The Cubs also seem reticent to trade Almora, Happ, or Schwarber for now. They also have a lot of faith in these players, so expect them to set up the starting outfield rotation. There is a possibility that the Cubs decide to bring in a backup outfielder, but they have plans for next year and probably would prefer to save that money.
Given that guys like Bryant, Zobrist, and even Willson Contreras could play in a corner outfield spot if needed, the Cubs are pretty much covered in the outfield anyway. So I think I will go with the consensus, which is that the Cubs' most likely near-term acquisitions are another starter, another reliever, and a backup catcher. The biggest splash would be the starting pitcher (maybe Darvish), but the roster seems pretty well put together and set before the turn of the calendar. I think our favorite team is in pretty good shape.
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China Semiconductor Industry Expansion Plans Analysis and Trends. The China semiconductor industry is expected to grow from USD 83.67 Billion in 2015 to USD 157.66 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 12.8% between 2016 and 2020.
Head Mounted Display (HMD) Market by Component. The head-mounted display (HMD) is a display device which provides personal information-viewing devices and the information provided is superior to the information provided by other displays.
HMDs are also used as hand-off information sources. The displayed video can be made reactive to head and body movements, replicating the way we view, navigate, and explore the world. Mostly, HMDs are developed for avionics in the defense sector that provides the pilot the required data at real-time, which is linked to the head orientation. Additionally, they offer digital prototypes with real-world environments to validate the design assumptions and/or identify potential concerns. They also help incorporate the required designs faster, reduce prototype iterations, and enable companies to get their products to reach the market sooner.
Biometric System Market by Authentication Type - 2022. Video Surveillance Market by System - 2022. The total video surveillance market is expected to reach USD 71.28 Billion by 2022, at an estimated CAGR of 16.56% between 2016 and 2022.
The base year used for this study is 2015 and the forecast period is from 2016 to 2022. This report provides a detailed analysis of the video surveillance systems and solutions based on component, system type, application, and geography. The commercial and infrastructure sectors are becoming popular due to the high demand for video surveillance systems to reduce security threats and criminal activities. 3D IC/Chip Market, TSV Interconnect Market (2011 - 2016), Global Forecasts, Industry Analysis Report: MarketsandMarkets. 3D IC/Chip & TSV Interconnects Market - Global Forecast & Trend Analysis (2011 - 2016) By Technology (Substrate, Bonding Techniques, Process Realization, Fabrication), Products (Memory, LED, Sensor, MEMS, Power & Analog Components) & Applications (Mobile Devices, Processors, ICT, Networking, Automotive, Defense) The gradual migration towards 3D ICs with TSVs happened with accelerated demand for higher bandwidths, reduced power consumption, and higher density. 3D IC technology and its integration with through silicon vias (TSVs) have been witnessing significant commercial strides in the past two years.
This is mainly attributed to the high efficiency of the solution and the guaranteed return on investment (ROI) to the investors. Improved performance, reduced timing, and form factor motivation serve as key drivers for adoption of 3D IC and TSV interconnect solutions. Europe Gesture Recognition Market (Touchless Sensing) by Types, Technology & Applications -2013-18. Table Of Contents 1 Introduction (Page No. - 25) 1.1 Key Take-Aways 1.2 Report Description 1.3 Markets Covered 1.4 Stakeholders 1.5 Research Methodology 1.5.1 Market Size 1.5.2 Key Data Points Taken From Secondary Sources 1.5.3 Key Data Points Taken From Primary Sources 1.5.4 Assumptions Made For This Report 2 Executive Summary (Page No. - 33)
Solid-State Lighting & Fluorescent Lighting Market by Technology - 2020. The global SSL & Fluorescent Lighting Market is witnessing a change; people are switching from traditional lighting technologies to energy-efficient ones such as SSL.
The Solid-State Lighting Market for traditional lighting technologies comprising incandescent bulbs, halogens, and Fluorescent Lighting Market is declining due to the consumer awareness about their drawbacks as well as benefits of solid-state lighting technologies such as LED and OLED. At present, the SSL technology is being preferred for new installations in domestic and commercial establishments, whereas the retrofit segment is expected to gradually take-off in the coming years with rising consumer awareness and falling product costs. Earlier, incandescent lamps were popular for lighting applications. These lamps converted only 10% of the electrical energy into light while the rest 90% was wasted in the form of heat. Scope of the report: Market on the basis of technology: Market based on type of installation: Microdisplays Market by Technology & Industry.
Microdisplays because of their small size help in reducing the size of a device, without compromising on the quality and output of the device, and technical performance.
Displays with less than one inch in dimension possess good technical stability and outstanding performance. Microdisplays have witnessed evolution from 14", 16", or 18" displays to a 25mm microdisplay over the years because of the technological advancements, in spite of the economic recession in 2008 and other competing technologies in the market. Different technologies such as LCoS, OLED, DLP, and LED are used in microdisplays; they cater to many application areas related to projection and NTE segments in verticals such as military, law enforcement, automotive, industrial, commercial, and others. Portable Medical Devices Market by Equipment & Component. Real time patient monitoring and care have become the crux of the healthcare industry.
Hence, more and more medical equipment is being integrated with wireless connectivity technologies to keep track of the patient's status. This also helps in maintaining patient data which can be analyzed in the future if necessary. The major wireless technologies that have seen their presence in medical equipment are WI-Fi, Bluetooth, ANT+ and ZigBee. With the integration of these technologies patient monitoring applications in healthcare has become much easier with the display or representation of the data on Smartphones and tablets. Memory and Processor are the major semiconductor components in the revenue share of mobile cardiac monitor market. Europe Gesture Recognition Market (Touchless Sensing) by Types, Technology & Applications -2013-18. Process Instrumentation Market Forecast 2020 \ MarketsandMarkets. RTLS Market for Healthcare by Product. The RTLS market for healthcare was valued at USD 580.1 Million in 2015 and is estimated to reach USD 3,123.7 Million by 2022, at a CAGR of 23.6% during the forecast period.
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Kommersant: Investors embracing global recession
Global markets opened on a negative note Monday but the declining figures were lower than early last week. Investors are concerned about the large-scale consequences of the global coronavirus quarantine but at the same time, they hope that unprecedented measures by central banks will help overcome the crisis, Kommersant writes.
The panic that reigned over the market for the past two weeks has faded but the threat of an economic downturn due to the coronavirus is steering investors away from risks.
According to Alfa Capital Analyst Maxim Biryukov, investors re-evaluate risks every day, and as long as the scope of the pandemic keeps increasing, risks will continue to grow, too, forcing the sales of various assets.
A slowdown in major economic fields will lead to a global recession, and a historic blow to economic activities will come in the second quarter of the year, Global Chief Investment Officer at Credit Suisse Michael Strobaek predicted.
The steps that central banks and governments are taking are partially helpful. The US Federal Reserve has particularly cut interest rates to zero. The European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and other regulators have also announced big quantitative easing plans.
According to Chief Analyst at BCS Premier Anton Pokatovich, Russia's Central Bank seeks to support the ruble. The regulator's daily sales did not exceed $80 mln at the beginning of last week but surged to reach $170 mln at the end of the week.
However, the global recession continues to influence the value of assets, and the risk remains high that oil prices will drop to $20-25 per barrel. "Under such circumstances, the ruble may show a tendency to weaken further," Pokatovich emphasized.
Media: Postponement of Tokyo Olympics seems inevitable
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has stated that given the current situation, it would be impossible to hold the Olympic Games as scheduled. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), in turn, said that a decision on the dates of the Olympics would be made within the next four weeks. Meanwhile, a number of countries have announced that they would not send athletes to Japan if the Games took place on the scheduled dates, between July 24 and August 9, Izvestia reported.
According to Russian Wrestling Federation President Mikhail Mamiashvili, "given the scope of the problem, holding a comprehensive event such as the Olympic Games on the scheduled dates is out of the question." "It is not just about a two-week competition in the city of Tokyo. It is also about qualifying tournaments in many sports, which take place in different countries. And those have been cancelled. The training of athletes and their preparations for the competition have been disrupted. Besides, though the epidemic may end in Japan by the summer, thousands of athletes and sports fans from other countries will gather there, and in many countries, including Spain, Italy and the United States, the epidemic is at its peak," he pointed out.
Valery Kistanov, who heads of the Center of Japanese Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Far Eastern Studies, told Nezavisimaya Gazeta that Japan was frustrated by those developments for both image and economic reasons.
"The prime minister has bet a lot on the Olympics. It could have been the last big project during Abe's term in office. The country expected foreign sports fans to flock there in large numbers, which would have helped Japan escape an economic downturn. If the Olympic Games are cancelled, Japan may lose 3.5-4.5trillion yen [$31.7-40.8 bln]," the expert noted.
Izvestia: Why COVID-19 has little impact on Africa
In Africa, popular tourist destinations such as Egypt, Algeria and Morocco have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic the hardest, while other countries of the region have hardly been touched by it at all. The number of coronavirus cases and deaths on the African continent is a hundred times lower there than in developed European countries, Izvestia wrote.
According to experts, the reason behind Africa's low infection rates is clear: African countries' share of international passenger traffic is relatively small, which is why most coronavirus cases have been recorded in countries that are more integrated into the global economy and attract more tourists.
Technical Officer at the World Health Organization's Africa Office Dr. Mary Stephen told the newspaper that the virus had been anticipated to enter Africa from China, but in fact, it had been brought to the continent later from European countries. According to the WHO official, African countries have a chance to prevent the virus from spreading but everything will depend on the authorities' ability to identify those infected, isolate them and trace their contacts.
At the same time, it is too early to say that the continent has been spared from the COVID-19 pandemic. "According to the US-based Johns Hopkins University, African countries are the least prepared to cope with the coronavirus outbreak because healthcare coverage is limited in most of those nations and medical facilities are poorly equipped. In particular, there aren't enough coronavirus tests, so the infection may be spreading in some African countries unnoticed," said Sergei Kostelyanets, Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies at the Russian Academy of Science' Institute for African Studies.
However, there are some factors that could contain the coronavirus spread. As is well-known, COVID-19 poses the most danger to elderly people. The average age in Africa is 20 years, and only three percent of the population are older than 65. This gives reason to believe that the death rates in Africa will be lower than in other parts of the world.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Coronavirus pandemic denies Turkey leverage to pressure EU
The Erdogan regime continues to use the Syrian refugee crisis as blackmail against the European Union amid the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, the refugees are a social group particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus, which complicates attempts to capitalize on the issue, Nezavisimaya Gazeta noted.
A recent statement by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has clarified that Ankara seeks to make Brussels abide by an agreement that the parties reached in 2016, when Turkey closed its borders with the European Union to migrants, and the EU vowed to pay six bln euro to Ankara in return.
Meanwhile, the coronavirus situation has made migration from Syria impossible. The Turkish government has closed checkpoints on the Syrian border.
According to Ankara Policy Center expert Orhan Gafarli, the Turkish public fears that the migrants will bring the coronavirus with them. Apart from Syrians, it also concerns those coming from Afghanistan, who arrive in Turkey via Iran - a country deemed to be the coronavirus epicenter of the Middle East.
The Turkish expert admitted that given the unprecedented spread of COVID-19, the threat of another migration crisis was becoming less important as a tool of political pressure. "In the current situation, Europe has more reasons to keep refugees out," Gafarli emphasized. "It gives European countries a chance to stop the human inflow because now they have an official excuse to do it," he added.
Media: Coronavirus self-isolation keeps viewers glued to TV screens
Russia's TV audience grew by four percent over the past week, and the biggest new viewers recorded were among children and young people who had lost interest in watching TV in recent years. This is part of a global trend that has emerged in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Kommersant wrote.
Self-isolation and telecommuting did not lead to a surge in daily TV viewing rates in Moscow on March 16-22, but changed the audience's preferences, Director General of MediaHills TV analytics Andrei Boyarinov noted. He pointed to increased interest in content offered by most news channels, as well as channels specializing in feature films and educational shows, particularly those related to healthcare.
Online streaming services also saw a rise in views over the past week, with a two-to-four-fold increase in average traffic. Feature films about epidemics and documentaries on the coronavirus are particularly popular with viewers at the moment, said a spokesperson for the Okko multimedia service.
TelecomDaily Director General Denis Kuskov believes that online streaming services' traffic may continue to grow, especially if the quarantine lasts for a long time. The surge in their audience is temporary but some of the new users will still be there after their self-isolation is over as they will realize the advantages of using legal streaming services and by then they will have gotten used to watching movies and TV series on those platforms, TMT Consulting Managing Partner Konstantin Ankilov noted. As a result, the quarantine will boost the online movie market, the expert emphasized.
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For the 2020/21 season, the TASO Soccer Dallas Chapter has changed the Scrimmage Game payments where Scrimmage games will now be paid the same fees as regular season games and include the travel allowance for the first game fee. We are also cancelling the $40 per Referee per game set scrimmage fee assessment.
Scrimmage games will have assignments made by the Assignors with normal Assignor fees being owed. The Assignor involvement will better allow for training opportunities with newer Referees being teamed up with experienced Referees.
This change will result in an increase in game fees earned by Referees officiating Scrimmage games and eliminate the administrative work on the part of the Referees, schools and the Chapter. To replace the needed revenue to support the Chapter for Referee Assessment costs and other operating expenses, ALL games assigned to you in Arbiter by the Chapter will have a $0.50 per game Chapter Admin fee assessed.
These fees will be collected from your "Chapter Deposit funds" and are separate from the Assignor fees owed by you to the Assignors ($5 for a whistle, $4 for a flag). The per game Chapter fee of $0.50/official has all Referees contributing to the Chapter expenses on a pro-rata basis and gives the Chapter a more reliable source of income.


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Harmony Controller cannot create vthunder from image today and this process has to be manual. You have to configure management IP manually.
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