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Medical universities in Ukraine, checking their and contractors
The most popular specialty for which foreigners are trained in Ukarin is medical specialties.
There are a lot of such universities in Ukraine and all of them differ from the location (the country is large), the quality of the teaching staff and the material base.
We can advise you and provide you with true information on any of the above universities.
Even if you have already decided to enter a specific university, we advise you to order a paid consultation with a long-distance university description, where you are going to take part.
Remember that in Ukrin and other countries there are many contractors who attract foreigners to the universities with which they work.
They will not tell you the truth and you will know it already when you pay for tuition or training at the first session after 3 months of study. You can face with swindlers and corruption, with problems of registration of documents and problems of legalization of your diplomas.
According to your individual order, we can also check the contractor – the firm that offers you intermediary services in the field of education.
We do not recommend believing them for a word.
We are the only company in Ukarin, which is based on the law firm. We have the knowledge and authority. We also act on the basis of the rules of a lawyer of ethics and provide only correct information.
Yes, we take money for it. But you pay for not losing your time in the future (7 years of life in a medical college), money and the right to stay in Ukraine.
Be careful and check your partners.
Universities that teach foreigners medicine in Ukraine.
Bogomolets National Medical University
Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
Bukovinian State Medical University
Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
Donetsk National Medical University
Higher Educational Institution "The Kiev Medical College"
Higher State Educational Establishment of Ukraine "Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy"
I.Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University
International Humanitarian University
Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education
Kharkiv National Medical University
Luhansk State Medical University
Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology named after S.Z. Gzhytsky
Lviv State University of Physical Culture
MHEI "Zhytomyr Nursing Institute"
Mariupol State University
Municipal Health Care Facility "Kharkiv Medical College №1"
Municipal Health Care Facility "Kharkiv Medical College №2"
National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia
National University of Pharmacy
Odessa National Medical University
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine"
Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University
Private Higher Educational Establishment "Kyiv Medical University"
Private Higher Educational Institution "International University of Economics and Humanities named after Stepan Demianchuk"
Private Higher Educational Institution "Kyiv International University"
Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education
State Establishment "Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy of Health Ministry of Ukraine"
State Higher Educational institution "Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University"
State Institution "Zaporizhzhia Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education Ministry of Health of Ukraine"
Sumy Makarenko State Pedagogical University
The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of The National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
The South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky
The State Institution "Institute of Neurosurgery named after acad. A.P.Romodanov of NAMS of Ukraine"
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University
Zaporizhzhia State Medical University


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Where to Find Puffins Around The World
If you live anywhere along a North Atlantic coastline, whether on the American or European side, you probably think a puffin is a black and white bird with an orange beak that looks like this:
The Atlantic Puffin
If on the other hand, you live anywhere along a North Pacific coastline, you probably think a puffin is a black and white bird with a yellow and orange beak that looks like this:
Horned Puffin
Or maybe you think it looks like this:
Tufted Puffin
Which puffin is cutest? Take the poll.
Which looks the cutest?
Which puffin looks the most comical?
Which do you think is the funniest?
Four types of puffin
All puffins are members of the Auk group of birds. Other members of this group are the guillemot and the razorbill. All auks have round bodies, short tails and small wings. They are generally better at swimming than they are at flying. The three generally recognised types of puffin are:
The Atlantic Puffin
The Horned Puffin
The Tufted Puffin
There is also a fourth bird that many ornithologists now consider to be a puffin, although it does not have the name. This is the:
Rhinoceros Auklet.
Life at Sea
All puffins live most of their lives far out at sea, only coming ashore during the breeding season. For most colonies this begins in mid April and ends in mid August, but some birds may arrive as early as March or as late as May and some leave earlier or later in August. To have the best chance of seeing puffins visit their colonies from late May until early August. You are unlikely to see baby puffins, known as pufflings, because in most colonies they will be tucked away in nests. The Tufted Puffins and most Atlantic Puffins build their nests in burrows on cliff tops, and the Horned Puffins nest in caves or crevices in rocks. In some places where the terrain is too rocky for burrows, Atlantic Puffins also use rock crevices. In particular the Atlantic Puffins that breed on rocky islands off the coast of Maine, in north-eastern USA, make their nests in this way.
Atlantic Puffins
The puffin in the first photo, and in the one on the right, used to be called the Common Puffin, but now it's more often known as the Atlantic Puffin. (Both those names took a lot of imagination didn't they?) Atlantic Puffins do stray a little from the Atlantic, but only as far as the North Sea, which is the sea between the UK and Europe.
Nobody knows exactly how many Atlantic puffins there are in the world, but most estimates are over 12 million. It can get confusing trying to work this out as sometimes puffins are counted in pairs, and sometimes not.
These are the top countries to see Atlantic puffins:
Over half the world's Atlantic Puffins have breeding grounds on Iceland. The largest colonies on Iceland are on the Westman Islands a small group of islands off the south west coast of Iceland. Because people on the Westman Islands have hunted puffins until very recently the puffins there are wary, but the puffins at the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve in the northwest of Iceland are very tame and it's possible to get close to them.
Norway has the next largest Atlantic Puffin population, with several large colonies. Some estimates suggest Norway has around 30% of the world's Atlantic Puffins. The largest colonies are on islands of Northern Norway. Western Spitsbergen, Lovund Island and Anda Island all have large puffin colonies.
The United Kingdom
Scotland has the largest proportion of the UK's puffin population and again the puffins prefer to nest on islands. My article Where to Find Puffins in Scotland gives more details on the most accessible puffin grounds in Scotland. The Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast have the largest puffin population in England, and there are smaller colonies on the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel and the of Skomer Island and Puffin Island off the coast of Wales.
The Faroe Isles
The Faroe Isles has a sizeable population of puffins.
Canada and The United States
The vast majority of North America's Atlantic Puffins have their breeding grounds along the eastern coast of Canada. The largest colony, Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, has over 500,000 adult puffins.
A few have colonies on rocky islands of the coast of Maine, with Machias Seal Island in the Gulf of Maine having the largest population of between 6000 – 7000 puffins.
A Horned Puffin swimming
The Horned Puffin
The Horned puffin gets its name because it appears to have a little horn above its eyes. 85% of Horned Puffins have breeding grounds along western coasts of North America with the largest concentration in Alaska. The next highest population of Horned Puffins breed in Eastern Siberia and smaller numbers have breeding grounds in British Columbia. Occasionally some are found as far south as Washington and more rarely in Oregon.
Most Horned Puffins do not nest in burrows, but in crevices in rocks.
Of the three types of puffin, Horned Puffins have the smallest population, with only an estimated 800,000 – 1 million worldwide. The numbers have fallen dramatically since the 1970s, possibly by as much as 80%.
During the late 20th century many Horned Puffins were accidentally caught in large fishing nets and died. Changes to fishing practices means fewer puffins now die in this way. The main predators of the Horned Puffin are the Arctic fox, the red fox and some rats.
In some areas of Alaska people still eat puffins and their eggs, but this practice is now uncommon.
Tufted Puffin
Tufted Puffins
The worldwide population of Tufted Puffins in is around 2.5 million.
They are the biggest of the puffins, being about 15 inches tall and weighing around 1.7 pounds. The most striking difference between Tufted Puffins and the other species is that their bodies are completely black, with the only white area being on the face. They also have long sandy coloured tufts that stretch back on either side of their heads, giving the appearance of having hair and adding to their comical look.
Tufted Puffins share habitat with the Horned Puffin, but do not go as far north and go further south. As with the Horned Puffins, they mainly breed on islands off the coast; for instance, Tatoosh Island off Washington and Haystack Rock off Cannon Beach in Oregon both have large Tufted Puffin colonies. Some have breeding grounds as far south as the Farallon Islands in San Francisco Bay. Many companies offer trips to the islands to see these birds.
Rhinoceros Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
The Rhinoceros Auklet is also sometimes known as the Horn-billed Puffin or the Unicorn Puffin.
Its breeding grounds are in the same range as the Tufted Puffin. The two bird types are closely related, although the Rhinoceros Auklet is less striking in appearance. Like the Atlantic and Tufted Puffins, it makes its nest in a burrow.
There are estimated to be around 1 million - 1.25 million Rhinoceros Auklets in the world.
Maps showing major breeding grounds for puffins around the world
Below are 2 maps showing breeding grounds for puffins, the first for the Atlantic Puffin and the second for all 3 of the others. The maps give an idea of the range of each puffin, and show where the largest concentration of birds can be found. There are also smaller Atlantic Puffin breeding grounds in Brittany in France and of the West Coast of Ireland. For a more extensive list of breeding grounds in Scotland see my article Where To Find Puffins In Scotland.
Ten of the Atlantic Puffins' Largest Accessible Breeding Grounds
Top Breeding Grounds for Tufted and Horned Puffins and Rhinoceros Auklet
References and further reading
Alaska Seabird Information Series
Witless Bay Ecological Reserve
The Scottish Seabird Centre has boat trips to islands to see puffins, and is working to preserve puffin habitat
Good article! I like this bird.
Great hub, Melovy. I was lucky enough to see puffins on the Atlantic coast at the Witless Bay breeding grounds when I visited Newfoundland a few years ago. Unfortunately I didn't have my new 30x zoom camera at the time so my photos are not as good as yours (https://geoffclarke.hubpages.com/hub/Canadian-Bird...
It was a fascinating experience to watch these unique birds flying around. Thanks for sharing and congrats on 100 hubs!
An extremely well-written hub on cute birds! Your description of 4 species of puffins are detailed and precise! Your daughter did a great job with taking some pics of puffins. You spoke like a real bird expert! Congrats on achieving an incredible feat of 100 hubs and completing one year. Wishing u all the best and more success in your HubPages journey! Well-done!
Thanks for SHARING. Useful & Interesting. Voted up and Socially Shared.
Wow, and I thought the Atlantic Puffin looked weird, the Tufted Puffin is definitely the most weird looking out of the lot. I was very fortunate to see Puffins, when I took a trip to the Farne Islands several years ago, it was absolutely magical. Thanks for writing this.
Very informative hub and the bird is simply cute. Very useful hub.
I haven't ever lived where I can see Puffins, but they are adorable. This is an awesome hub and very interesting. I am always awed at the vast number of unique birds and animals in this world.
What a brilliant discourse on the cute creatures. Puffins became familiar to me as a child as Penguin books ran a children s imprint called 'Puffin books' and used the bird as the logo. I have learnt so much here, Melovy. this is a really well constructed, written and formatted hub with great pics. Well done on your hundredth hub and a successful year in hubland! voted up and across!

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e.learning age in association with Unicorn Training presents 'E-Learning 2020 - The future of eLearning with Craig Weiss'. Event: One day seminar Date: Wednesday 27 November, 2013 Location: The Kia Oval, Kennington, London, SE11 5SS, UK Price: £195 + VAT (includes full access to the seminar, beverage breaks and lunch) In the first of a programme of activities to mark the E-Learning Awards 10th Year, e.learning age teams up with Unicorn Training to present this unique one day seminar. The world of online learning is going through a period of rapid and unprecedented change. We are assaulted from all sides by the new vocabulary of MOOCS, mLearning, SoMe, Tin Can, XAPI, LRS, HTML5, and gamification. But which of these will make a real difference to your business over the next five years? For the first time ever in the UK, inspirational eLearning guru Craig Weiss will be flying in from LA to provide his unique insights on the evolution of eLearning and what's next for the industry. Founder and CEO of E-Learning 24/7, Craig was named the fourth most influential person in the world for eLearning in 2013. His blog is read in 133 countries and his eLearning forecasts have been over 90% accurate. That's why he's the ideal person to discuss the future of eLearning and reveal what you can expect to see over the next five years. You won't want to miss this unique opportunity to join Craig to discuss and debate the key trends in online learning. Seminar schedule Often controversial but never dull, Craig will deliver the keynote address and then join group round table discussions and debates. You'll also get the chance to exchange ideas and experiences with your peers and industry experts on a range of key themes including:
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I believe that all of creation, no matter what it is, is not inherently good or holy like God is. If an angel is left to itself, without the sustaining power of Christ (Heb. 1:3), it will become corrupted and evil. If a human is left to himself, he will sin and thus destroy himself. But if God sustains that person with God's own holiness and power, that person can live a perfect life. This is what will happen to us in Heaven. We will continually be perfect because God's debt against us was wiped away by the life, death and resurrection of Christ; but also because God will forever be sustaining us within His righteousness.
This leaves us with the fact that God can actively move away from somebody, thus leaving them to their own sinful destruction. I believe this is considered the hardening of the heart. So God actively keeps people from believing in Him and they ultimately go to Hell while being completely responsible for their own sin and judgment, and God being the One who hardens their hearts for His own purposes and glory.
"What shall we say then? IS there injustice on God's part? By no means! For He says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.' So then it (salvation) depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, 'For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.' So then He has mercy on whomever He will, and He hardens whomever He wills. You will say to me then, 'Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?' But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, 'Why have you made me like this?' Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show His wrath and to make known His power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of His glory for vessels of mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory – even us whom He has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?" (Romans 9:14-24).
It's pretty straightforward to me. As much as I don't understand it at times, and sometimes I'm guilty of not wanting this plan, God's will stands and it is perfect.
Evangelism and Missions
Because of the evidence of Scripture, we have to conclude that:
1. There are elect individuals destined for Heaven.
2. There are individuals hardened and destined for Hell.
3. We do not know who these elect individuals are.
Therefore the Gospel call must go out to everybody of the world (2 Tim. 2:10). The only way for those elect to come to Christ is through the plan of God found in evangelism and missions. God's purpose is that we, as the elect, go out to the ends of the earth to make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything in the Word of God (Matthew 28:18-20). Because there are an elect and there are "vessels of wrath", we cannot presume upon God's will and stop evangelizing. This is one of the biggest mistakes of people who hold these truths. We are called to go out to the ends of the earth proclaiming Christ. And we shall.
I believe the difference between evangelism and missions is the evangelism is proclaiming the Gospel to lost individuals whereas missions is proclaiming the Gospel to people groups and tribes; to whole groups of individuals without the Word. And we must do both.
Charles Spurgeon once said something along these lines: "if a stripe were painted down the backs of the elect, then I'd go around lifting up coat-tails."
We do not know who are those that God has chosen, so we must preach to everybody, pleading with them to repent and believe upon the finished work of Christ. And those who do, and finish the race, prove that they were chosen before the foundations of the world.
I, therefore, must believe in double predestination in the sense that God actively does something to allow people to go to Hell. Romans 9, and the many examples throughout the Bible (Matthew 13:12-16 is just another one; there are tons!) that teach about God's electing and God's hardening. I mean, even if God left somebody in there sin and didn't do anything is still doing something. If I was witnessing a murder, but didn't do anything, I still made that choice to do nothing, which is doing something; it's neglecting to help. But God actively hardens hearts and Jesus spoke in parables to keep people from knowing the truth.
Ask yourself, if God wants all to be saved, and He knows who will not choose Him, then why continue to create those humans that will not choose Him? Why go through all the trouble of being patient with their disobedience and then they end up going to Hell? I think vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of His glory for vessels of mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory" sums it up pretty well. Let's hold true to what the Bible teaches, no matte what.
Verses to Dig Deeper
Acts 13:48
Romans 8:28-30
Romans 9:11-13
Romans 11:7
Ephesians 1:4-6
Ephesians 1:11-12
1 Thess. 1:2-5
2 Thess. 2:13
2 Timothy 1:9
1 Peter 1:1-2
1 Peter 2:9
Acts 18:9-10
Lamentations 3:37-38
Amos 3:6
Job 2:10
Acts 2:23
Acts 4:27-28
Rev. 17:17
Proverbs 21:1
Romans 11:25
Prov. 16:33
Matt. 10:29
Romans 8:7-8
1 Cor. 1:23-24
Acts 11:18
Acts 5:31
Acts 14:27
Acts 16:14
Deuteronomy 30:6
Jer. 24:7
Ezekiel 11:19-20
Ez. 36:24-26
2 Timothy 2:24-26
Romans 9:16
1 Peter 2:8
John 6:37
John 10:26-30
John 11:51-52
John 8:47
John 6:44; 65
Luke 9:44-45
Luke 18:34
Luke 19:42
Luke 24:45
Matt. 26:27-28
Philippians 1:6
Phil. 2:12-13
Matthew 15:13
John 17:9
Isaiah 10:5-1
Those are just a few of the many verses that I have time to write down. Know God. More importantly, be known by Him. Pray. And study His Word. The truths are beautiful.


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5 of the best 'Fallout 4' mods, one week after the game's release
Fans of Bethesda Softworks' mammoth role-playing games know this already, but: Fallout 4 is going to change a lot in the hands of tech-savvy fans. Hell, it already has.
Just a week after the game's release, PC players already have tons of mods — custom-made alterations built by fans — to choose from. And Bethesda hasn't even released the "official" mod tools that will make bringing Fallout 4 alterations to consoles a possibility for the first time ever.
There are some good ones out there, but these five are our favorites. Some "fix" the game in unexpected ways, some are just fun to play and one in particular is so hilariously dark it had to be included.
We've linked each mod to its Fallout 4 Nexus download page, and we've written out (very easy) instructions at the bottom of this post to make your game — PC version only — mod-ready.
Start the game in a same-sex marriage
Fallout 4's story actually opens before nuclear bombs destroy the entire planet, with you and your marital partner sharing a few quiet, happy moments with your infant child. Players can play as either a man or a woman, but the game always opens with the traditional man-woman marriage pairing.
This simple tweak — it isn't even a mod, but rather a pair of save files — allows you to start things off in either a man-man or woman-woman pairing. This may not seem like much to those that subscribe to a heteronormative world view, but it's everything to gay players who just want to immerse themselves completely in Fallout 4's fiction.
Download either save and find installation instructions right here.
Face the post-apocalypse with a dog army at your side
You know you're really winning at life when you can turn to someone and say, "Sure, but is it cooler than my army of dogs?" It never is.
You can have a dog companion in Fallout 4, singular — but this mod lets you add more. As many as you want, really, until the game crashes. All you need is a simple text command (and the file that makes the magic happen).
Only Dogmeat, your main canine companion, accepts orders and acts like Fallout 4's other party members. But the dog army you build using this cheat is faithful and fearsome; they may not listen, but they'll fight by your side at every opportunity.
Download the mod and find instructions for using it right here.
Banish the bugs
Good news, fellow entemophobics: The Radroach-B-Gone mod replaces all Radroach models in the game with Mole Rats. Both can damage your wasteland-dweller, but only the former threatens to trigger feelings associated with an innate fear of insects.
The mod is a work in progress. In addition to Radroaches, it also swaps Eyebots in for Bloatflies and Yao Guai in for Radscorpions. You're on your own for now with Bloodbugs — shudder — but this is an important first step toward eradicating all Fallout 4 insects for those that can't handle it.
Download the mod and find instructions for installing it right here. Note that if you follow the mod prep steps at the bottom of this post, you can safely skip the first part of Radroach-B-Gone's instructions (the bit that involves modifying an .INI file).
Fallout 4-loving Swifties unite
The Fallout series establishes an alternate timeline for recent human history — but we'd like to think that Taylor Swift is a hit in any and every possible timeline, darkest or otherwise. With this mod, you can really let your fandom flag fly.
The standard Pip-Boy is boring, but you can punch it up with a pink color scheme and a TSwift wallpaper on the wrist-mounted computer's screen. Now, whenever you jump into the menus to equip your snazzy, new shotgun, your lord and master Tay looks back at you.
Download the mod and find installation instructions right here. Once again, you can ignore the .INI file editing if you follow the instructions at the bottom of this post.
Turn your infant son into a Mini Nuke
The creator of this mod wrote a description that's far better than anything we can say here:
Have you ever sat and thought, "man, I want to launch my baby out of a catapult?". I know I have. In retrospect, this is why my wife left me.
Atom Bomb Baby replaces all of Fallout 4's Mini Nukes, which are ammo for the "Fat Man" nuke-launcher, with the character model for your wasteland survivor's infant son. Whenever you collect a Mini Nuke or fire one out of the shoulder-mounted weapon, it looks like a tiny baby.
Too dark? Perhaps. Hilarious every damn time you use it? Most definitely.
Download and installation instructions are found right here. Ignore the .INI editing portion and follow the setup steps below.
How to make Fallout 4 mod-ready
To make Fallout 4 ready for mods that rely on more than just console commands (covered below), you've got to make two very small edits to two files. First, find your game's data folder. The one with the "fallout4.exe" file in it. If you got the game through Steam, it should be in "[your Steam installation folder]/steamapps/common/Fallout 4."
First look for the file "Fallout4Prefs.ini" and open it with Notepad. Use the Find command to search for "[Launcher]" (minus the quotes). Insert the following text on its own line just below that header: bEnableFileSelection=1
If you see a line like that already, but it ends in "=0," just change the 0 to 1.
After you add the text and save the file (under the same name), find Fallout4.ini and open that in Notepad. Now you're searching for the text "sResourceDataDirsFinal." There should be only one instance of it, probably with the text "=STRINGS\" right after it.
Once you find that line, replace the entire thing with this text (again, minus the quotes): "sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\"
That's all. Once you've made the tweaks to those two files and saved them, Fallout 4 is ready for mods.
One last tip: You'll notice that some of the mods listed above refer to something called "console commands." The "console" is a common feature in Bethesda's big RPGs (and in many other games). Pressing "~" at any time during the game brings up a text parser where you can input a variety of commands.
The console is there so that developers can mess around with different elements of the game, which is why some of the above mods rely on it. Just bring up the console when you're supposed to and input the commands listed in each set of instructions.


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I'm in the process of editing my first novel. It's proving to be a painful process, akin to having teeth pulled. Wherever possible, I pretend that the novel is 'resting', not to be disturbed, like a sleeping baby. I pick up my new(ish) novel, which is far more exciting, because I'm still in the glorious process of creating words, not fiddling with them. At some stage, though, I'll have to get back to that first novel. The sleeping baby will need to be awoken.
I'd like to say that I'm at the final edit stage, better known as proof reading, when all I have to do is spot a few misspelled words and make sure the commas are in the right place. Life would be plain sailing.
I'm actually right at the beginning, at the structural edit stage – and therein lies the rub. A structural edit is the most time-consuming and complex stage of the writing process. It's about looking at the bigger picture to make sure, for example, the plot makes sense, the characters are well developed, point of view is consistent and the story flows well. Scratching your head over whether the third chapter should actually be your first chapter is all part of the process. So too is deciding whether your main character catches the ferry from Dover instead of Portsmouth.
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I have previous experience working in cultural resource management (CRM) in the Southwest and Great Plains regions, and I regularly teach two of the core courses (ANTH 540 and 542) for the Graduate Certificate in Cultural Resource Management. The fall course (ANTH 540) focuses on CRM law, while the spring semester introduces students to the practice of CRM by involving them in active research projects relating to the Camino Real. Undergraduate students who are interested in taking these classes may register for ANTH 497 (but please contact me first).
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Vietnam War Overview Part 3: 1955-1963
Ngo Dinh Diem and his family
Ngo Dinh Diem
The South Vietnamese government championed and defended by the United States was corrupt and oppressive. Diem's most trusted official was his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, an opium addict and admirer of Adolf Hitler who modeled the marching style and torture techniques of his secret police on the Nazis. Diem's younger brother Ngo Dinh Can was put in charge of the former Imperial City of Hue. These two brothers ruled their regions of South Vietnam with private armies and secret police, and used the regular army as manual labor on the family's private timber and rubber plantations. Other brothers and family members were installed in high places. The family is widely believed to have been involved in illegal smuggling of rice to North Vietnam; they were involved in the opium trade, and they
monopolized the cinnamon trade. Diem's family used the power of the Catholic Church to acquire farms, businesses, real estate, and rubber plantations. Meanwhile, Madame Nhu, the wife of Diem's brother Nhu, was South Vietnam's First Lady (Diem was a bachelor), and she spearheaded social reforms in
, South Vietnam's capital, in accordance with their Catholic values. Brothels and opium dens were closed; divorce and abortion made illegal, and adultery laws were strengthened. The Eisenhower administration privately admitted Diem's corruption and tried to influence him by attaching financial aid to positive social reforms. But no real change occurred, and the aid kept rolling in. Why? The administration was reluctant to withdraw support from such an aggressive anti-communist. But they also believed that Diem's oppressiveness was necessary for his survival.
But even as the very first American boots stepped onto Vietnamese soil, no one in the Eisenhower administration bothered to reflect on how a peasant army had been able to defeat a major Western power, and they attacked anyone who raised the question as being soft on communism. Vietnam, they said, was part of the larger struggle with China. Two months later, in the same
magazine interview mentioned in part 2, Secretary Dulles argued that the Indochina war was over, that Vietnamese nationalism was on Diem's side, and that the American presence in South Vietnam was free from the taint of colonialism. He could not have been more wrong on all three counts. The Viet Minh emerged from the First Indochina War as a modern, confident force. It was commanded by men who had been promoted up through the ranks based on ability, regardless of their origins (Unlike the South Vietnamese military being built by the Americans, which reflected class and privilege), and who viewed the nationalist struggle as only half over. The North Vietnamese were fueled by nationalism and had earned the reputation of a nationalist army. The
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
was nationalist only because the Americans said they were.
When Vietnam was partitioned by the Geneva accords, the Vietnamese people had been encouraged to migrate either north or south, to the side of their preference. Some did (many Catholics moved from the north to the south), but Vietnamese communists had been urged by their northern comrades to remain in the South to vote in the unification election. To eliminate them as a threat, Diem instituted the Denunciation of Communists campaign in which thousands of these "stay behinds" were executed or sent to concentration camps. In response, South Vietnamese communists began a low-level
against the Diem regime. Although it is unclear how much these South Vietnamese communists were directed from North Vietnam, evidence indicated they acted on their own, but with the approval of North Vietnam, which was using the time to rebuild its military forces after the long war with the French. They began a land reform program based on the Chinese model, but it went too far and resulted in the execution of some 50,000 small-scale "landlords".
The goal of the insurgency was twofold. First, they wanted to completely destroy Diem's influence in the countryside and to replace it with a shadow government. Second, they wanted to win the hearts and minds of the rural peasant population in South Vietnam by offering a contrast to the Diem regime. To that end, insurgents were instructed to not take land from peasants, to emphasize nationalism rather than communism, and to use selective violence. Peasants should know why a political assassination had been necessary. Four hundred government officials were assassinated in 1957 alone, and the terror campaign soon escalated to include other symbols of the status quo, such as schoolteachers, health workers, and agricultural officials.
Village chiefs, corrupt outsiders (often Catholic) appointed by Diem (at the urging of U.S. officials), were favorite targets. Seventeen civilians were killed by machine gun fire at a bar in Chau Doc in July 1957, and in September a district chief was killed with his entire family on a main highway in broad daylight. In October a series of bombs exploded in Saigon and left 13 Americans wounded.
Despite these conditions, Diem was warmly received during a state visit to the United States in May 1957. He was met personally at Washington National Airport by President Eisenhower. Diem's motorcade was greeted by 50,000 well-wishers and his address to the U.S. Congress and his policies were heartily endorsed by both political parties. During his time in the U.S. capital, Diem also attended receptions, and had private meetings with both Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. Diem was trumpeted as a champion of democracy and anything controversial about his regime was avoided.
Diem is met at the airport by President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles, 5/8/57
Sometime in late 1957 or 1958, North Vietnam began organizing to support the communist struggle against Diem being waged by Southern communists. Economic improvements in North Vietnam allowed Ho to begin focusing more attention on the South. By 1959, the time was ripe for Hanoi to take the military offensive. In May 1959 a resolution was adopted in North Vietnam
identifying the United States as the main obstacle to Vietnamese nationalism and as an enemy of peace. The resolution called for a strong North Vietnam as a base for helping the South Vietnamese to overthrow Diem and eject the United States. From here on out North Vietnam assumed ownership of the revolution in the South, and they escalated both military and political activity.
To facilitate movement of men and materials from north to south, a specialized North Vietnamese Army unit, Group 559, was formed to create a supply route from North Vietnam to insurgent forces in South Vietnam. With the approval of Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia, Group 559 developed a primitive route along the Vietnamese/Cambodian border, with offshoots into Vietnam along its entire length. This eventually became known as the
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Map: The Ho Chi Minh Trail
The first American deaths at the hands of the enemy occurred on July 8 1959. Two military advisors, Army Master Sergeant Chester M. Ovnand and Major Dale R. Buis, were killed at Bien Hoa, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, when the Viet Minh attacked a mess hall where a movie was being shown. Despite these deaths the Eisenhower administration continuously underestimated the seriousness of the threat against Diem. Evidence shows that it wasn't until March 1960 when they realized that despite the impressive outpouring of treasure, material, and advice, South Vietnamese communists were making significant headway against Diem. The Defense and State Departments disagreed on to what extent Diem was to blame. They felt the need to both reassure Diem of continued U.S. support and to put pressure on him to reform. Military advisor strategy was changed to increase the use of Special Forces trained in counter-insurgency tactics.
The Viet Cong
But even as U.S. strategy was adapting, North Vietnamese strategy took another key step. On December 20, 1960, a month before John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, North Vietnam reorganized communists in South Vietnam into the
National Liberation Front
, a political organization. The military wing of the NLF was called the People's Liberation Army. Americans called them the
Viet Cong (VC)
. The existence of this organized, South Vietnamese enemy eventually caused much political strife in the United States. Throughout the Vietnam War, U.S. officials would insist that the Viet Cong were controlled exclusively by North Vietnam; while anti-war activists insisted they were an insurgency indigenous to the South (and thus were evidence of the fruitlessness of U.S. policy there). In reality, Viet Cong membership was more complex. Some were native to the North. Some came down from the North but had originally been from the South, having relocated after the partitioning. Many were indigenous to the South. The Viet Cong formed both regular army and guerilla units and were supplied via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Not all of them were communists, but they were all nationalists.
President Kennedy discusses Vietnam at a press conference
President Kennedy's Decision
Within days of taking office in January 1961, President Kennedy agreed to the new counter-insurgency strategy that had been in the works for months, authorizing funds to increase the ARVN from 150,000 to 170,000 troops. In exchange the president called for modest, common-sense political reforms. But although President Diem indicated he would cooperate with the new military strategy, he balked at reform. Diem would not change. And yet once again the aid rolled in. On December 22, 1961, Army Specialist 4 James T. Davis became the first U.S. battlefield fatality. As a member of the 3rd Radio Research Unit, Davis provided technical advice to ARVN units on locating enemy signals, and provided valuable training and guidance on ways to get a "fix" on the insurgents' locations. While en
route to a suspected VC area of operations, he was killed in a firefight when his vehicle was forced off the road from striking a land mine.
Throughout much of 1961, Kennedy was preoccupied with the Berlin crisis and the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Vietnam only came up during a crisis over neighboring Laos. He finally turned his attention to Vietnam in the fall of 1961, after increased Viet Cong operations caused the situation there to deteriorate dramatically. As evidence of the seriousness of the situation, President Diem proposed a treaty with the U.S. to guarantee South Vietnam's existence (meaning the U.S. would have to send in troops). Kennedy declined the treaty and put off the issue of direct military involvement, but he did make more changes. Along with another increase in funding, 3,000 more U.S. "military advisors" were sent. And in a new development, American military helicopters flown by U.S. pilots were shipped over. Although U.S. troops were not technically engaged in warfare, now they transported South Vietnamese troops to the battlefield. The first such mission, Operation Chopper, began on January 12, 1962. U.S. pilots transported 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers to sweep a Viet Cong stronghold near Saigon. American pilots also conducted
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American C-123 aircraft spray Agent Orange, 9/30/62
Operation Ranchhand, designed to clear vegetation alongside highways to make it more difficult for the Viet Cong to set up ambushes. As the operation expanded, vast tracts of forest were sprayed with
Agent Orange
, an herbicide produced by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical that contained the deadly chemical Dioxin. Guerrilla trails and base areas were exposed, and civilian crops that could potentially be used to feed Viet Cong units were destroyed. Agent Orange had long-term negative health consequences for both Americans and Vietnamese. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children have been born with birth defects. Studies showed that veterans who served in the South during the war have increased rates of nerve, digestive, skin and respiratory disorders, and well as higher rates of various cancers, including throat cancer, acute/chronic leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, soft tissue sarcoma and liver cancer.
The Strategic Hamlet Program
To isolate the Vietnamese peasants from contact with the Viet Cong, the Kennedy administration supported the Strategic Hamlet Program, where villages were consolidated and reshaped into a networked perimeter defended by trained, armed peasants. To win the hearts and minds of the peasants, reforms were supposed to improve their lives—economically, politically, socially, and culturally. Unfortunately the program was implemented at an unsustainable speed. The government of South Vietnam was unable to fully support or protect the hamlets or their residents, especially at night. The Viet Cong easily sabotaged and overran the poorly defended communities. Those villagers who
Strategic Hamlet Program
supported Diem dared not inform the authorities about Viet Cong infiltration for fear of reprisal. The program had many other difficulties. U.S. officials did not understand the role of the village in the very identity of the Vietnamese peasant. Some villagers were forced to relocate in order to create a defensible perimeter, and their old homes were often burned right in front of them. Villagers were expected to pay their own relocation costs, and financial compensation for burned homes often was siphoned off by corruption. The government refused to undertake land reform, which left farmers paying high rents to a few wealthy landlords. And well-intentioned U.S. shipments of food aid to South Vietnam only served to impoverish the peasants, whose livelihood depended on stable rice prices, further alienating them from Diem. The policy failed.
President Kennedy interviewed by Walter Cronkite, 9/2/62
A Buddhist monk commits self-immolation, 10/5/63 (2 views)
Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu on Meet the Press, 10/13/63
Buddhist Protests, 1963
Diem's policies in the cities favored Catholics over Buddhists (the majority in Vietnam), further alienating the South Vietnamese people. Eventually, Diem began to persecute Buddhists. On May 8, 1963 in the City of Hue, nine unarmed Buddhists peacefully protesting a ban on the Buddhist flag were shot and killed by Diem security forces. Diem refused to make concessions to the Buddhist majority or take responsibility for the deaths. In the summer and fall, several Buddhist monks committed suicide by self-immolation in protest of Diem's regime. One of the more controversial figures during the Buddhist crisis was President Diem's sister-in-law, the First Lady of Vietnam,
Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu
. She accused the Buddhists of being communists, called the self-immolation of one monk a "barbecue," and stated, "Let them burn and we shall clap our hands." On August 21, 1963, ARVN Special Forces raided pagodas across
Vietnam, causing widespread damage and destruction and leaving a death toll estimated in the hundreds. A few days later, Madame Nhu described the attacks as "the happiest day in my life." She called on government troops to invade the American embassy and capture Thích Trí Quang, a Buddhist monk who had been given asylum, saying that the government must arrest "all key Buddhists."
Fearing that the U.S. would cut off economic aid to South Vietnam, Diem and Nhu sent Madame Nhu to the United States on a goodwill tour. She arrived on October 7, 1963, where she refused all pleas from U.S. officials, including one from Vice President Johnson, to tone down her rhetoric. She accused the Americans of undermining South Vietnam through "briberies, threats and other means," and of trying to destroy her family. She mocked Kennedy's staff, denounced American liberals as "worse than communists," and Buddhists as "hooligans in robes."
She publicly claimed that the United States was responsible for the coup, saying, "Whoever has the
Herblock was extremely critical of the Diem regime over the Buddhist crisis (5 images)
Republic of Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem murdered, 11/2/63
Americans as allies does not need enemies."U.S. officials secretly discussed the possibility of a regime change, and a proposal was conveyed to the U.S. embassy in Saigon. As it turned out the CIA was already in contact with ARVN generals who were planning a coup against Diem. A CIA agent told these generals the United States would not oppose a coup nor punish the generals by cutting off aid. When rebels surrounded the presidential palace, Diem phoned U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and requested help. Lodge declined, but offered Diem asylum at the U.S. Embassy. Diem refused and instead fled with his brother Nhu to a church in a nearby suburb. They were caught the next morning and executed in the back of a personnel carrier that was supposed to bring them to Saigon. President Kennedy was shocked at the murder of Diem, but accepted that a change in leadership had been necessary. Madame Nhu was still in the United States when news broke of the murders of her
husband and Diem. She went on to predict a bleak future for Vietnam and said that by being involved in the coup the troubles of the United States in Vietnam were just beginning. After Diem's assassination, a series of coups brought rapid changes in leadership in South Vietnam, with one general or politician after another quickly replaced by the next in line. Finally in mid-1965, Prime Minister Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky and figurehead Chief of State General Nguyen Van Thieu came to power at the head of a military junta. They consolidated power in 1967 via rigged elections, but eventually Thieu outmaneuvered Ky and became the sole South Vietnamese leader, a position he maintained until 1975.
From mid-1962 until President Kennedy's death in November 1963, the administration formed a plan to disengage from direct, large-scale military involvement in Vietnam, but found it difficult to implement. U.S. funds had created a large South Vietnamese army, but despite the training provided by U.S. advisors, the ARVN remained of poor quality. On January 2, 1963, at the Battle of Ap Bac, a small band of Viet Cong beat off a much larger and better equipped South Vietnamese force. Many of the latter's officers were reluctant even to engage in combat. Almost 400 South Vietnamese were killed or wounded and three American advisors died. President Kennedy continued to increase the number of U.S. advisors. At the time of his death there were 16,000 American military personnel in South Vietnam, compared to 900 when he took office.
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Part one of this U.S. Catholic interview with Father William Meninger appeared on the Homefaith blog last week. Here is the whole interview.
Do you think contemplative prayer is more valuable than prayer for other people's needs?
Yes. In Chapter 3 The Cloud says, "This form of prayer is more pleasing to God than any other form, and it does more good for the church, for the souls in purgatory, for the missionaries than any other form of prayer." And then it says, "Although you may not understand why."
Now see, I understand why, so I tell people why. When you pray, when you reach out with all the capacity that you have for loving God without ulterior motives, you are embracing God then, who is the God of love.
As you embrace God, you are embracing everything God loves. What does God love? God loves everything God has created. Everything. Now this means that God's love extends to the utmost bounds of an infinite cosmos that we can't even fathom, and God loves every tiny atom of that because he created it.
You cannot do contemplative prayer and willingly, deliberately hold on to hatred or unforgiveness of one single being. It's a blatant contradiction. That doesn't mean you've totally forgiven every possible infraction. It does mean, though, that you are in the process of doing it.
You're willingly acting to do it because you cannot love God without loving every single human being that you've ever confronted. You don't have to pray for anybody during your contemplative prayer because you are already embracing them without limitation.
Is it more valuable to pray for Aunt Susie, or is it more valuable to pray for all that God loves—in other words, creation?
A lot of people probably say, "I could never sit still for that long."
People use a Buddhist expression, "I have a monkey mind." I get this from people who have been introduced to centering prayer but not by good teachers, because that is not the problem. I tell people at the beginning of the workshop that I will guarantee that problem will be solved with a few simple instructions.
The point is there's no such thing as a perfect meditation. I've been doing this now for what, 55 years, and am I able to do this without a monkey mind? Absolutely not. I have distracted thoughts all the time. I know how to deal with them. A successful meditation is a meditation that you don't quit. You don't have to succeed, because in fact you won't.
But if I try to love God for the 20-minute period or whatever my time limit is, I'm a total success. You don't have to succeed according to your notions of success. The Cloud of Unknowing says, "Try to love God." Then it says, "OK, if that's too difficult, pretend to try to love God." Seriously, I teach that.
If your criteria for success is "peace" or "I lose myself in a void"—none of those work. The only criteria for success is, "Did I try it or did I pretend to try?" If I did, I'm a total success.
What's special about a 20-minute time frame?
When people first start, I suggest they try it for 5 or 10 minutes. There's nothing sacred about 20 minutes. Less than that, you could be fooling around. More than that could be an undue burden. It seems to be a happy mean. If people are having extraordinary difficulties, are exhausted with their troubles, The Cloud of Unknowing says, "Give up. Lay down before God and cry out." Change your prayer word to "Help." Seriously, that's what you should do when you're exhausted from trying.
Is there a good place to do contemplative prayer? Can you do it anywhere?
I always say that you can do it anywhere, and I can say that from experience, because I've done it in bus depots, on Greyhound buses, on airplanes, at airports. Sometimes people say, "Well, you don't know my situation. I live right downtown, and the trolleys are going by, and all the noise." Those places are as good as the quiet of a monastic church. In fact, I'd say the worst place to do it is a Trappist church. The benches are made for you to suffer, not to pray.
The only physical instruction The Cloud of Unknowing gives is, "Sit comfortably." So, not uncomfortably, and not on your knees either. You can easily be taught how to absorb noises so that they do not interfere. That takes five minutes.
You reach out figuratively to embrace all that noise, and you bring it in as part of your prayer. You're not fighting it, see? It's becoming a part of you.
For example, one time in Spencer, there was a young monk who was really having difficulties. I was in charge of the young monks, and I figured, "This guy needs to get out of the walls."
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus was in Boston at the time. I went to the abbot, Father Thomas, and I said, "I want to take Brother Luke to the circus." I told him why, and—a good abbot—he said, "Yes, if you think that's what you should do."
Brother Luke and I went. We got there early. We were sitting in the middle of a row, and all the activity was going on. There were bands tuning, and there were elephants elephanting, and there were clowns blowing up balloons and people selling popcorn. We sat in the middle of the row, and we meditated for 45 minutes without any problem.
As long as you're not physically interrupted, I think any place is appropriate. Although, I must admit, if I'm traveling in a city, a big city, and I want to meditate, I'll go to the nearest Episcopal church. I won't go to a Catholic church because there's too much noise and activity. Go to an Episcopal church. Nobody's there, and they have soft benches.
What if you fall asleep?
You do what The Cloud of Unknowing says: You thank God. Because you didn't sit down to fall asleep, but you needed it, and so God gave it to you as a gift. All you do is, when you wake up, if your 20 minutes are not over, you go back to your prayer, and it's been a perfect prayer.
Some people say that contemplative prayer is only for monks and nuns, and that laypeople will rarely have time to sit and do this.
That's unfortunate. It is a fact that the monasteries are one place where contemplative prayer has been preserved. In fact, though, it has also been preserved by a countless number of laypeople who didn't write books on mystical theology.
My mother is one of them. My mother was a contemplative long before she ever heard of me, never mind me teaching contemplative prayer. And she would have died and never said a word about it to anybody. There are countless people who are doing that. It isn't limited to monasteries.
How did you find out your mother was a contemplative?
The very fact that when she died at 92, she had worn out four pairs of rosary beads. When she was 85 and she was very sick, the abbot permitted me to visit her. I decided I was going to teach my mother contemplative prayer. I sat down by the bed, and I held her hand. I very gently explained what it was all about. She looked up at me and said, "Dear, I've been doing that for years." I didn't know what to say. But she's no exception.
Do you think that's true for a lot of Catholics?
I do indeed.
Do you ever hear God at all?
I wish I could stop. Once I was giving a retreat to a Carmelite community. The nuns were coming in, one by one, to see me. At some point the door opened and in came this old woman, with a cane, bent over—she couldn't even look up. I found out she was about 95. I just patiently waited. As she was hobbling across the room, I had this sense that this woman was going to prophesy. I'd never had that before. I thought, "This woman is going to speak to me on behalf of God." I just waited. She painfully sank into the chair.
She sat there for a minute. Then she looked up and said, "Father, everything is a grace. Everything, everything, everything."
We sat there for 10 minutes just absorbing that. I've been unpacking that ever since. That was 15 years ago. That is the key to everything.
If you want to put it this way, the worst thing that ever happened was human beings killing the son of God, and that was the greatest grace of all.
This article appeared in the November 2013 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 78, No. 11, pages 18-22).
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00s - hrmm.... combination of real and electronic drums centric (ala linkin park and Hey!! maybe we could teach the drummer to use our machines!!)
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Byron Mullens has maintained he still wants to represent Great Britain despite snubbing the national team in successive years.
The Los Angeles Clippers forward was a no-show at training camp ahead of the Olympic Games with claims that he was suffering an injury cast into doubt when he was attending off-season workouts in Charlotte.
And then in EuroBasket 2013, he was once more unavailable to new coach Joe Prunty but Mullens, whose mother is from Middlesex, has indicated his willingness to join the fold.
"Yeah there are definitely plans," he confirmed. "I was planning on playing over the summer at Eurobasket, but my boy was born. I really wanted to play but I felt I had to be there for his first birthday.
"Everything just didn't pan out, I was still a free agent, and hadn't signed with the Clippers yet, so it didn't quite work out. However, I really am looking forward to playing in the near future."
Joel Freeland last week also confirmed he will return to GB for 2014 with Luol Deng also telling British Basketball of his likely availability for August's EuroBasket qualifiers.
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When Lester Krause moved with his family to Sandpoint in the 1930s, the landscape looked much different. But this child's penchant for connecting with fresh air and dirt was just as strong as it is for the youth of today.
Lester's earliest memories are of frolicking in the forest through the endless days of summer, and of sitting in his grandmother's lap on the front porch of his family home as she spun tales of days gone by.
This is how Lester forged a connection to the land that runs so deep. Eighty years later, he recalls these memories as vividly as if they were yesterday.
Even though he moved away years ago, this is the place to which his mind most often wanders. As a scrappy kid from the city, Lester never imagined that in his golden years he would go to great lengths to preserve a forested parcel in rural North Idaho. But that is exactly what he has done.
Lester's gift of his family's 20-acre parcel to Kaniksu Land Trust is a means of furthering his dream that future generations have the same opportunity to connect with the land, and with one another, that he did. Because the land is adjacent to Pine Street Woods, it also increases the size of the future community forest from 160 acres to 180. He has ensured that the legacy begun by his grandparents will live on in perpetuity. Such is KLT's commitment: permanence in our conservation work, and permanence in our dedication to the communities that we serve.
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He has urged GPs to issue "well notes" setting out what tasks a worker can perform instead of certificates automatically signing them off.
And he has encouraged employers to run health clinics in a bid to cut the estimated 175m working days lost to sickness each year, at a cost of £13bn.
But doctors' leaders said GPs should not be used to "police the system".
They said if GPs were brought in to play such a proactive role it could damage the doctor-patient relationship.
Pilot scheme
Mr Johnson, whose department is responsible for health in England, is due to give a speech to the British Heart Foundation on Wednesday.
He said firms such as British Gas and Parcelforce have seen reduced sickness rates after running advice sessions to manage back pain and mental health problems.
But it is the changes to the GP sick certificate, to be piloted in the summer, which are proving most controversial.
Along with these changes, GPs will also be expected to offer patients advice about what they can do to get fit for work.
The announcements come ahead of a publication in March of a report by Dame Carol Black, the national director for health and work, who is looking at the issue.
The "sick-note culture" is also seen as the gateway to incapacity benefit.
GPs are responsible for signing people off for the first six months, before they are formally passed on to the centrally-administered incapacity benefits system.
The UK has one of the highest proportion of people on incapacity benefit in Europe after numbers have more than trebled since the 1970s to 2.7m.
Of course GPs should take responsibility for ensuring that only people who are genuinely ill are signed off as 'sick'
The system is due to be reformed later this year when claimants will be expected to take part in programmes aimed at getting them back into work.
Mr Johnson said the evidence showed that far from being bad for health, work is generally good for people's health.
He said: "We are not asking GPs to police the benefits system and we are not suggesting that GPs shouldn't sign sick notes."
He said too many people ended up drifting on to incapacity benefit via the sick note system.
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But Dr Peter Holden, of the BMA's GPs committee, says: "GPs are often placed in a difficult position between their patients and the system when issuing sick notes in the early stages of illness.
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You all remember when your dad (grandpa) retired and got that lovely clock/watch from the company where he spent 30 years slaving away for the man. Well, companies still offer incentive programs – many of which are related to "time served." It's a great way to improve employee morale, but also a contributor to each company's carbon footprint.
One positive trend I've noticed is that these incentive programs are based on-line. Employees are directed to a website where they browse a catalog of selections and then input their choice into an online database. Despite this great improvement over paper catalogs and mailing in forms, there is still lots of room for improvement.
There is a lot that companies can do for the environment through careful consideration of gift items and methods of delivery.
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- Purchase gifts from vendors with a commitment to the environment


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Star prize in the Folk Assembly raffle last weekend was a hand-crafted chocolate bar, with the Woodcraft logo, made by friends Michael and Steve at Mondelez (better known as Cadburys). The raffle raised over £80 for Woodcraft Folk and this will be matched by Mondelez.
The prize was won by Nina and Rudy who, in the proper spirit of Woodcraft, shared it with friends at the Assembly.
The raffle contributes to a fundraising effort by Michael and Steve, who are cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats in September to raise funds for seven charities, including Woodcraft Folk.
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