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The 48-year-old returns to the Foxes having signed a contract that lasts until the end of the 2013/2014 season, replacing the sacked Sven-Goran Eriksson, after a compensation package was agreed with npower Championship rivals Hull.
He will be joined at the King Power Stadium by assistant managers Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh.
Sly Fox: Nigel Pearson has returned for a second spell in charge of Leicester
During his last spell, Pearson steered Leicester to the League One title in 2009 before they reached the 2010 Championship play-off semi-finals, losing to Cardiff on penalties.
But Pearson, who quit for Hull in June 2010, made it clear he wanted to return to the Foxes despite also turning around the fortunes of the Yorkshire club.
Pearson said: 'Craig, Steve and I are all extremely excited to be rejoining Leicester City, working with the players and working closely with the board of directors to achieve the club's aspirations.'
Vice-chairman Aiyawatt Raksriaksorn added: 'We are very pleased to have secured the services of Nigel, Craig and Steve and we are sure they are the men to lead this club forward.
'Nigel is very well respected within the game and he and his team have the knowledge of this division and the ability to motivate the players, staff and supporters.
Swede... turnip: Sven Goran Eriksson was sacked by the club last month
'They achieved a great deal during their last spell at the club, rescuing Leicester City from its lowest position and coming so close to a place in the Premier League.
'We are sure that this time around, with everyone's support and endeavour, they can take us one step further.'
Pearson will take charge of training for the first time on Wednesday before being introduced to the media at a press conference at the King Power Stadium.
Hull moved swiftly to confirm the appointment of Nick Barmby as caretaker manager. The Hull-born 37-year-old agreed to take over after former Tigers boss Warren Joyce opted to stay as reserve-team manager at Manchester United.
A club statement read: 'Following the departure of Nigel Pearson to Leicester City, the club is delighted to announce that Nick Barmby has agreed to take on the role of caretaker manager for the foreseeable future.
Stepping up: Nick Barmby has been named as Hull's caretaker boss
'We would like to thank Nigel Pearson, as well as his assistants Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh, for their hard work during their time at the club and wish them all the best for the future.
'Having overseen training over the course of the last week, Nick's first game in charge will be this Saturday's trip to Derby County. The club would like to stress that there is no present interest in pursuing alternative managerial candidates at this time.
'Nick will be assisted by Stuart Watkiss as first-team coach, Seamus McDonagh as goalkeeper coach and a new addition, Darren Robinson joining us from Nottingham Forest.
'Nick will also be joined by a new assistant manager in the near future.'
?Barmby jumps to head of queue for Hull job after United's Joyce rejects chanceScholes set for United elevation if Hull appoint Joyce as Pearson replacementLeicester offer ?2m deal to lure Pearson back from Hull as Sven's replacement
Source: Daily Mail
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Adherence to treatment: what is done in Sweden? Practice, education and research
Objective: The objective of this review was to identify the practice, education and research of pharmacists in Sweden in regard to adherence to treatment.
Methods: Medline was searched up to the end of February 2008. In addition to the Medline search performed, other available sources were also used to identify relevant articles.
Results: No adherence-specific programs have been implemented in Swedish pharmacies. No adherence-specific courses are provided in Swedish Universities educating pharmacists. The adherence-related research has so far mainly focused on refill non-adherence, primary non-adherence and patient reported non-adherence and readiness to treatment.
Conclusions: Adherence-related practice and education of pharmacists will probably change due to the deregulation of the pharmacy market that will take place in the near future in Sweden. Research on adherence will need to be strengthened in the sense that it has so far not been guided by adherence-related theoretical frameworks, despite the fact that there are several theories to hand that try to explain adherence.
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MIT's efforts to track down Aaron Swartz, while under intense pressure from JSTOR, the not-for-profit that ran the journal database [he was accused of downloading millions of articles from], eventually would lead to felony computer crimes charges that might have brought years in jail. Swartz, 26, was under indictment when he committed suicide in January 2013.
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The last to enter Judge William J. Pendergast's courtroom, Tiquon Ramon Hicks Jr., 22, was found guilty on Feb. 8 of second-degree murder, guilty of street terrorism, both felonies, and a panel of six men and six women found a gang enhancement related to the charges to be true.
Hicks, dressed in a striped jail jumpsuit, was scheduled to be sentenced, but his attorney, D. Glenn Brown, did not appear in court, so Pendergast rescheduled the proceeding for 8:30 a.m. June 6 in Department 11 in the Justice Center in Fairfield.
Hicks — convicted of the Sept. 21, 2017, fatal shooting of another Vallejo man, one of three men connected to the crime — may spend 20 years behind bars for the crime when sentenced: 15 years to life on the murder charge and three to five more years for the gang enhancement.
Deputy District Attorney Eric Charm led the prosecution during 18 days of witness testimony and the presentation of evidence and is the lead prosecutor in the other four pending trials.
In an interview with The Reporter after the jury's decision, Brown called it "a compromise verdict," one short of premeditated murder, saying there was no solid evidence to put his client at the scene of the shooting and no evidence that he aided and abetted the actions of two other men — Nickolas J. Howland and Steven T. Sanderson — also charged with the killing of DeMario Williams in the 100 block of Westwood in east Vallejo. Brown said he would appeal the verdict.
At issue before and since Hicks' conviction was whether Pendergast would "sever," or separate, the trials of each defendant. After speaking with attorneys, he agreed to sever all but one of the remaining pending trials.
During the brief morning proceedings, Pendergast ordered Howland, 21, and Sanderson, 18, and their attorneys, Curtis Boyd and John Coffer, respectively, to return at 8:30 a.m. July 22 for more proceedings. Sanderson, who also is charged with another murder, faces a readiness conference and trial setting. Howland also faces the same proceedings but Boyd has also filed a motion to dismiss a charge or charges against his client.
Sanderson and Howland, who, with Desean L. Johnson, are also charged with the January 2018 murder of Coy Lacy Jr., 30, will face a single trial as co-defendants in one of the murders, Pendergast said.
Johnson, 23, will face a single trial on the charges and was ordered to return at 8:30 a.m. July 22 for a readiness conference and trial setting. He is represented by Fairfield criminal defense attorney Tim A. Pori.
A fifth man, Damaria T. Haskins, 21, was indicted in November 2018 by a Solano County grand jury for the 2017 murder of Erik Green and the attempted murder of his brother, Eian. Pendergast ordered him and his attorney, Carol Long, to return at 8:30 a.m. July 22 for a readiness conference and trial setting. By severing his trial, Pendergast noted Haskins was "alleged to have acted without the others present."
Vallejo police investigators believe all the accused are members of the 200 Westwood criminal street gang.


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ST. LOUIS, MO – A solemn goodbye to two U.S. Army Reservists from the St. Louis area who were laid to rest Thursday. Both soldiers are being remembered as heroes who had caring hearts and put others first.
Sergeant Holli Bolinski and Specialist Jackson Johnson died March 5, 2019, in a non-combat related incident in Kuwait. They were on a routine mission when a civilian water truck ran a stop sign and t-boned the side of the SUV the soldiers were riding in.
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A similar scene for 20-year-old Specialist Johnson of Hillsboro, MO. Funeral services were held at the Kutis South Country Chapel on Lemay Ferry. The Patriot Guard was also on hand. Fellow military members along with friends and family saluted as the flag-draped casket was carried to the hearse.
Johnson's mother told our partner at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that her son had the biggest most loving heart. Her son enlisted in the Army because he wanted to make a difference in the world.
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|The Vietcong Logo
|Unconventional Warfare
|Faction Colour
|Red and Blue
|Paradox Minor-Faction
|Dev. Status
|Mostly in-game
"Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye."
- - "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
An irregular military force supplied by North Vietnam (and indirectly by the Soviet Union), the Vietcong are a stubborn resistance force putting up a surprising resistance to the far more technically-advanced Allied forces. They will be your opponent in the first Allied mission, and serve as a tutorial for fighting irregular forces.
Background Edit
The man named Victor Charlie
When Allied Forces first moved into combat in Vietnam, they were surprised by the tenacity and innovation of their enemies. According to Allied general William B. Rosson, "It's like we're the Soviets this time around." After the initial 33,000 Peacekeepers proved insufficient, and with a great many Peacekeeper divisions tied up around the world, the order was given to dispatch Allied Reservists to the country. Now, six months later, nearly three hundred thousand Allied soldiers are fighting in support of the ARVN Rangers, with two hundred thousand more slated for the end of the year, yet there seems no end to the Vietcong forces.
Small Beginnings
After the peace accord that split Vietnam in two, small cadres of communist sympathizers were ordered to remain in the south, with orders to continue resistance and attempts to install communist leadership. Cover organizations like the Saigon-Cholon Peace Committee, the Executive Committee of the Fatherland Front, and the Vietnam-Cambodian Buddhist Association all kept ACIN and the South Vietnamese guessing as to who was really in command of the Vietcong guerrillas.
In the early months of the war, the Vietcong were easily pushed into the wilds by the VNA. But in 1956, the French fully pulled out of Vietnam, leaving only a token force of reservists and other Allied personnel in-country. During this time efforts were made to try and revive the insurgency with support from other communist nations. Both Mao Zedong and Premier Cherdenko were adamantly opposed to this plan due to the possible economic implications, and chose to hold off on arming a new insurgency. However, relations between the Chinese and Soviets were distancing, and the NVA was beginning a massive arms buildup.
In the meantime, the Vietcong waged a silent war to undermine the South Vietnamese government. Village officials known to be sympathetic to Saigon were assassinated and removed; people were quietly converted to the Vietcong cause, convinced to lend their support to the overthrow of the puppet government. Soviet support continued to build after the launch of Mir. According to French scholar Bernard Fall, another war had started.
Black shirts and Paddy hats
Shortly before the beginning of World War III, the Vietcong were hard working on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a network of dirt roads, underground tunnels, and small rest areas that the insurgency could use to funnel supplies into the South. At the same time, North Vietnam started to put more and more pressure on South Vietnam. Troops on the border continued to wait for orders, drilling and marching well in the view of South Vietnamese positions. However, greater actions were being taken in Laos to try and set up another Communist buffer state to prevent Allied Cambodia from trying anything. Vietcong attacks continued, and claimed their first Allied casualties in the form of two American Peacekeepers in July 1960. Hanoi publicly distanced itself from the Vietcong, claiming they were independent guerrillas.
It was also by 1960 that Mao Zedong was also fully aboard with supporting North Vietnam, hoping to find support wherever he could get it at this point. Though practically unable to truly support North Vietnam, the support of fellow communists gave the Vietcong a large morale boost, and rapidly escalated their guerrilla campaign. Supporters of the government were killed off, even after the deposition of Ngô Đình Diệm, but the ARVN Rangers proved to be adept at fighting the methods of the Vietcong so well that the guerrillas went to ground for years, making only token attacks and assassinations.
Red Tide
Almost immediately after the end of World War III, the NVA launched the massive Tet Offensive in January 1968. Hoping the Allies were too war weary to even send a token force, the NVA and Vietcong supporters broke through the border and tore through the countryside, destroying villages and forcing the people to submit to communist rule. Isolated pockets of ARVN forces were left stranded, and a massive armored push to Saigon signaled the end of the South Vietnamese. Only the sudden intervention of the Allied carrier group was enough to stave off defeat, though both Hanoi and the Vietcong are still left puzzling; how did a carrier battle group assemble so rapidly, group up, and manage to reach South Vietnam in time?
Unforeseen Consequences
Though the NVA was pushed back across the border and left weakened, the Allies had not expected the Vietcong to rapidly rise in their place. Not only was the DMZ and back country littered with war refuse, the Vietcong had taken the unexpected and disturbing step of repairing and rearming these old vehicles to at least partially operational conditions. Stories circulate through ARVN camps of massive tunnel networks, and there is still a single JS-1 unaccounted for. The Vietcong are everywhere, waiting. Watching. The Allies never expected the Vietcong to rearm so rapidly and so effectively. The Soviets are pouring millions into arming them, and the Allies are struggling to actually reach out to the Vietcong leadership (If there is any; some rumors claim the VC have no central leadership period). As South Vietnam and the Allies struggle to bring North Vietnam to the bargaining table, the Vietcong keep fighting.
|Vietcong Minor Diplomatic Relations
|Army of the Republic of Vietnam
|Allied Reservists
|National Revolutionary Army
|Communist China
|Global Liberation Army
|International Inc
Army Edit
"They take out the second man a lot of the time. They leave you alive because they want to scare you. And it works. You see posts on the DMZ, and they're all strung out zombies shaking at the slightest noise. They never go for the ranking men either, they go for the support staff. Radiomen, medics, the ones who really know what they're doing. When you're faced with the prospect of standing alone, against a hostile jungle, that's when you know fear."
- - Col. Walter E. Kurtz, from his field journal found in a burned Hmong village
Units Edit
|Victor Charlie
|The iconic Vietcong resistance fighter, Victor Charlie is the military call sign, and catch-all name, for Vietcong infantry. Armed with submachine guns and disposable RPGL-6 rocket launchers, they fight a running battle against the better equipped Allied forces using their knowledge of the region and stealthy abilities.
|These specialised soldiers have been planting mines and digging punji stick traps everywhere, and it's impossible to move safety through the jungle as a result.
|Krait Sniper
|Named for the stealthy poisonous snakes of North Vietnam, these silent killers use SKAS Sniper rifles to pick off ARVN targets. In times of need, it can fire nets from a small net gun to entangle targets as the Vietcong retreat. Unlike the SKAS, these do not make any noise whilst firing, allowing for the Krait to stay stealthed!
|Supply Truck
|These trucks are used by the Vietcong to transport supplies and collect ore. They are unarmed and defenceless, but they can drop their ore and stealth if threatened.
|Pincer ICV
|These obsolete light Soviet tanks serve as support for the Vietcong, their machine guns and rockets chewing through forested terrain and ARVN troopers alike. They don't stand much of a chance against modern tanks, however.
|Mortar Truck
|These aging pickup trucks are outfitted with homemade mortars and use their inherent speed to serve as high speed hit-and-run artillery platforms against ARVN troop emplacements. However, they lack the punch that more modern ammunitions provide. They can also fire lingering smoke rounds to provide cover.
|Bulldog Tank Destroyer
|Hundreds of these vehicles went missing from the stocks of the colonial French in the 1950s, only to turn up now in Vietcong colours. Rumour has it that some of them have been painted in imitation of those used by Allied forces.
|Chameleon ZSU
|How these effective anti-air vehicles ended up in Vietcong hands is anyone's guess, but the important thing is that they have them and they are using them against Allied aircraft with devastating effects. Effective against both helicopters and light vehicles, it can turn off its safeties to temporarily double its fire rate.
|Mammoth Tank
|Rumour has it that the Vietcong somehow managed to acquire a few JS-2 Mammoth Tanks and that they've hidden them in their tunnels somewhere. The iconic Mammoth is slow, but will crush anything in its path. Because of its heavy armour, it can withstand quite some punishment, but it is very vulnerable to fast enemies attacking it from the rear. Their best use is in 1 on 1 anti-tank combat and versus defence structures.
|Motor Boat
|Civilian boats manned (and armed) by brave Vietcong Soldiers. These troops within it fire rockets at enemy aircraft and use a machine gun to cut down enemy infantry. They can also disguise the ship as a regular civilian boat that fill the rivers of Vietnam, and more than one ship was accidently blown up due to ARVN suspicions.
Teching System Edit
|Sniper Doctrine
|Unlocks the Krait Sniper. $1000, 10 seconds.
|Amphibious Assault Doctrine
|Unlocks the Pincer ICV. $1500, 15 seconds.
|Artillery Doctrine
|Unlocks Mortar Truck. $1200, 12 seconds.
|Ambush Doctrine
|Unlocks Bulldog. $2000, 20 seconds.
|Air Defense Doctrine
|Unlocks ZSU. $1200, 12 seconds.
|Heavy Assault Doctrine
|Unlocks Mammoth Tank. $5000, 60 seconds.
|Tunnel Doctrine
|Unlocks Tunnel Ambush protocol. $1500, 30 seconds.
|Bombardment Doctrine
|Unlocks Artillery Barrage protocol. $2500, 45 seconds.
|Mass Attack Doctrine
|Unlocks NVA Rush reinforcement protocol, which calls in 15 NVA Regulars, costs $1000, and recharges in 20 seconds. $1000, 15 seconds.
|Combined Arms Doctrine
|Unlocks NVA Battle Force reinforcement protocol, which calls in 2 full Pincer IFVs and 1 Rhino tank for $3000 and recharges in 45 seconds. $3000, 45 seconds.
|Interceptor Doctrine
|Unlocks NVA Squadron reinforcement protocol, which calls in 2 MiG-Nines for $2000 and recharges in 30 seconds. $1500, 30 seconds.
Structures Edit
|Tunnel Complex
|Vast tunnel networks hold all the personnel and vehicles the Vietcong can grab and hide under the jungle. Mined with booby traps, those tunnels are dangerous to explore for any unexperienced soldiers. Gaining access to the units inside gives an army a significant advantage in the jungles of Vietnam.
|Disappearing Gun
|An old Soviet ZU-333 Triple Cannon mounted on a hydraulic lift, the Disappearing Gun pops up in response to enemy units and guns them down in a hail of autocannon fire. Though good against light vehicles and aircraft, it does little more than suppress infantry and annoy heavily armoured vehicles.
NVA Reinforcements Edit
These forces can be called upon during Minor Faction Deathmatch. The NVA come in a massive wave of men and vehicles, a rush that can crush even a prepared defence.
|NVA Regular
|These assault-oriented troops have minimal training, but thanks to prebattle chants, songs and propaganda, fight with frenzied enthusiasm. They blow through the clips of their ADK-45 with no concern for ammunition, and follow up with a bayonet charge when they run dry. They also carry grenades, which they are known for throwing en-mass to destroy enemy positions or vehicles.
|NVA Pincer ICV
|With intact hull, considerable ammunition reserves, and space for six passengers, the NVA variation of the Pincer both carries the massive number of NVA forces to the front and supports them with bursts of machine-gun fire.
|Rhino Tank
|Soviet assault tanks from the interwar period, the Rhino's 85mm gun is more than suffient to crush any opposition it is likely to meet in the jungles. It's loudspeaker can relay orders or propaganda from North Vietnam to psych troops into a frenzy.
|MiG Nine
|The fastest, sleekest and most effective second-generation jet fighter in service, the MiG-9's triangular profile and high speed allowed it to dominate the skies of Europe in WW2. It fires large numbers of rockets from the wing pods, perfect for destroying slow-moving targets, but it has no ability to attack ground forces. When out of rockets, it must switch to its much less effective machine guns.
Deathmatch Protocols Edit
After securing positions on the field, the Vietcong find it safer to execute some of these operations.
|Deploys some camo-netting onto the field, stealthing units and structures around it, but only lasts for six minutes. Does not stealth defences, Command Bunkers or Tunnel Complexes. Recharges every two minutes.
|Tunnel Ambush
|An exit tunnel pops out of the ground, allowing you to smuggle units to any location of the map using the tunnel system. Recharges every two minutes.
|Saturation Fire
|Heavy NVA field guns over the DMZ fire a sustained barrage in the general vicinity of the target area, destroying everything in the area and leaving it a cratered ruin. Recharges every 3 minutes.
Behind the ScenesEdit
- The Vietcong is, you guessed it already, based on the RL Vietcong.
Paradox-Exclusive Mini-Faction.
|Victor Charlie • Guerrilla • Krait Sniper
|Pincer ICV • Supply Truck • Bulldog Tank Destroyer • Chameleon ZSU • Mortar Truck • Mammoth Tank
|Motor Boat
|Tunnel Complex • Disappearing Gun • NVA Smelter
|NVA Reinforcements
|NVA Regular • NVA Pincer ICV • Rhino Tank • MiG Nine
|Vietcong Protocols
Camo-Netting • Tunnel Ambush • Saturation Fire
|Detailed Information
|Vietnam War • North Vietnamese Characters
|Original Red Alert 3 Factions
|Allied Nations • Soviet Union • Empire of the Rising Sun
|Paradox Factions
|Confederate Revolutionaries • Order of the Talon • Atomic Kingdom of China • Mediterranean Syndicate • Electrical Protectorate
|Paradox Minor-Factions
| Army of the Republic of Vietnam • Allied Reservists • National Revolutionary Army • Vietcong
People's Liberation Army • Global Liberation Army • International Inc • Cult of the Black Hand


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'In answer to your question,' Tavish read when he unrolled the scrap of paper, 'my name is Levy Balquhidder and I am the son of your nephew and niece, Rary and Rilla; if you have read this so far, stick your finger into the Moth Hole,' so Tavish did, just squeezing the tip of his finger through and – it was like an electric shock when he felt the tip of a small finger touch his; he pulled his out and examined it, there was a slight redness, like a burn from a cigarette. he tried again and felt two things, the small finger and another rolled slip of paper; he eased this out and read it: 'believe me now? I didn't know if it would be a two-way channel, but it is; don't waste time with long narratives, tell me where you are, who is with you, where you are going, and something that only Tea Spoons and Jam Jar would know; they have worked out that you have a conduit and this may be the best time to give them some answers, Hasta La Vista, Baby!' and as he read this Tavish sat back and stared at the scrap, the last words of which were his twin, Pherson's standard sign-off: could this be Pherson? surely not, and he thought of Rilla and Rary: they had been expecting a baby around the time that he went into or came out of The Cavern, OMG! how old would the baby be now? 9 months? was it possible? for a baby to be so developed? never, but it might be Pherson alright! was he spavined, maybe even delirious – this emotional roller-coaster was too much for him; there was something mythopoeic going on, or he was losing his grip on reality, sitting here like a patroon back from the New World observing the archaism of the Old: and at the risk of being a platitudinarian, he wanted to roar: "humbug!" but hist! a message for Jam Jar and Tea Spoons? something they will know came from him, and something Pherson would be ignorant off: he began do delve in the gallimaufry of his past and his most secret dealings – something which, if this is Pherson at the other end of the Moth Hole, wont cause any damage: he had an image of an occasion in the nosocomial setting of an Emergency Room in a war-torn Middle Eastern city and of a woman with a cordate face, perfectly heart-shaped and that was when he remembered it all with an absolute clarity and certainty that this was what it had to be!
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Securing the Border With Smart-Aleck Semantics
11th, 2011
The Washington Times
President Obama made a run for the border yesterday to shore up his
credentials on the immigration issue. Speaking from Chamizal National Memorial
in El Paso, Mr. Obama defended his strategy as if it were working. "They'll
never be satisfied," he said, lashing out at critics. "The truth is, the
measures we've put in place are getting results."
The Obama administration has cooked up a novel way to calculate what a great
job his Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been doing in stemming
the flow of aliens flooding over the border from Mexico. In March, Ms.
Napolitano stood on a bridge connecting El Paso to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and
proclaimed border security to be "better than ever." In testimony before the
Senate Homeland Security Committee last week, Ms. Napolitano claimed that the
meaning of "operational control" of the border is "archaic" and that she intends
to devise a "more quantitative and qualitative way to reflect what actually is
occurring at the border." She said she wants an index that would include a
measure of how many persons have been deterred from even attempting to jump the
By counting these theoretical illegals – as opposed to real ones – Ms.
Napolitano's border-security mission becomes much easier. While hundreds of
thousands actually cross over annually, compared to, say, Mexico's entire
population of 112 million, they represent a tiny fraction. Preventing border
crossing in a computer model or a spreadsheet allows Ms. Napolitano to proclaim
"mission accomplished" without having to actually crack down in a way that would
offend left-wing open-border advocacy groups.
Ms. Napolitano's attempt to redefine what it means to secure the U.S. border
is a brilliant example of double-speak worthy of "Big Sis." Real numbers are far
less forgiving. In February, the Government Accountability Office reported that
the Border Patrol has only 873 miles of the 2,000-mile southern border subject
to "operational control." The term means simply that the Border Patrol has the
capacity to deter illegal crossers and pursue them when they're spotted. The
remaining length is mostly open for free passage. In remote regions of Arizona,
cartels have established observation posts providing intelligence to ensure safe
border transit for drug couriers.
Mr. Obama and his economic advisers do deserve some credit for discouraging
illegals from crossing the southern border.


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Willie Nelson generally stays out of politics. When he gets involved, it usually has something to do with weed. There was that one time when he purportedly smoked weed with the Slick version of his namesake on the roof of the White House, and now this—Willie Nelson wants his own brand of weed.
. . . Willie has spent a lifetime in support of cannabis, both the industrial hemp side and the marijuana side. He wants it to be something that's reflective of his passion. Ultimately, it's his. But it was developed by his family, and their focus on environmental and social issues, and in particular this crazy war on drugs, and trying to be a bright light amongst this trail as we're trying to extract ourselves from the goo of prohibition.
Really he wants it, at the end of the day, to envelop what his personal morals and convictions are. So from the store itself to how they'll work with suppliers and how things are operated, it's going to be very reflective of Willie's life.
Apparently it's going to be called Willie's Reserve, and it will have some serious quality controls, including regulations on how much carbon the weed farms are emitting. Because we wouldn't want any smoke fumes rising into the air or anything. Anyway, beginning in pot-legal states, Willie Nelson will be creating stores with his own line of pot-smoking gear and even his own strains of weed. And I can imagine that resting on all of it will be the iconic face of the iconoclastic star.
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I imagine this is just the beginning of "star-endorsed" marijuana. It has become far more common in recent years for celebrities to own lines of liquor and beer. Justin Timberlake and George Clooney have their tequilas. Jay-Z has a cognac. Dan Akroyd has a vodka. Kenny Chesney has a rum. Now Willie Nelson wants a weed.
This is just the logical next step, and Willie wants to get in first, I guess. Who knows who else will jump on when and if pot becomes nationally legal. Seems like Snoop Dogg could definitely make something happen there.
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Dr. Asaria's Toronto Hair Transplant
Unlike hair restoration methods of the past, modern hair transplants provide patients with natural, convincing hair restoration. When patients take advantage of recent developments in the field of hair transplantation, their new hair grows and behaves just like the rest of their hair. It's almost as though hair loss never occurred in the first place. So what makes these techniques so beautiful?
Dr. Jamil Asaria is a facial cosmetic surgeon who delivers among the best hair transplant Toronto has available. As a board certified facial plastic specialist, he adheres to a strict set of hair restoration standards. While many cutting edge techniques exist in this field, they mean nothing without a dedicated and skillful surgeon. In performing hair restoration, Dr. Asaria performs no more than one procedure per day, allowing him to dedicate his total attention to giving you the natural, beautiful results you deserve.
Cutting Edge Techniques In Full Hair Restoration
In an effort to give his patients the best hair restoration Toronto has to offer, Dr. Asaria has honed his skills in a method of hair transplant surgery that is revolutionary: follicular unit extraction. A newer and often preferred method of hair transplantation, follicular unit extraction (FUE) removes individual hair follicles directly from the scalp. Because of this, patients don't experience a long scar on the back of their head that comes from the strip method of hair transplantation. Further, patients can generally wear their hair quite short after FUE, as evidence of extraction is virtually gone in a matter of weeks.
Bespoke hair restoration
For men and women who are suffering from thinning hair, restoration is not just a matter of providing a way to get thicker hair. It has to look completely natural. Nothing is more unflattering than hair restoration done using any robotic or production-line type of treatment as those results look fabricated. No one wants their family and friends to politely ignore their 'doll-like' hairline at social occasions.
Speed is not a good way of planning hair restoration, yet so many large corporate hair restoration companies do just that to bolster their bottom line. At Hair Toronto, our patients are treated only by a board certified plastic surgeon with a talent for creating beautiful, believable and carefree hair restorations. This takes many hours, but Dr. Asaria's patients are delighted with the results and grateful for the time and care he devotes to each patient.
The hairline is the test…
The hairline is particularly difficult to restore. It must look as nature intended, slightly irregular yet believable. Dr. Asaria is a consummate perfectionist who does only one hair restoration per day at his Toronto clinic. His work is painstakingly exact creating a hairline that Mother Nature would think was her own handiwork.
Dr. Asaria spends the time to tailor each hair follicle to the right location making the end result exactly as if there had never been any hair loss. There is no quick way to do this…but this hair transplant method creates the best results possible. A bespoke hair restoration is rare yet at Hair Toronto, it is the only type of hair restoration that Dr. Asaria will do.
Before & After Gallery
To view the results that could be in store for you, please browse our before and after gallery where you can see a sampling of Dr. Asaria's actual patients.View Gallery
The difference is in the details
Dr. Asaria delivers high volume FUE, giving his patients significant relief from hair loss. While many physicians use turnkey, automated technological solutions such as NeoGraft or the ARTAS® robotic hair transplant, Dr. Asaria uses a precision manual technique. With his painstaking, rigorous approach, he cuts no corners in restoring the crown and hairline for every single patient. The ability to create a natural appearance is an artistic skill, not provided by the use of technology. Further, by limiting himself to one hair transplant procedure per day, Dr. Asaria takes all the time necessary to ensure the results are natural and stable.
Meet Dr. Jamil Asaria
Dr. Jamil Asaria is a facial cosmetic surgeon who delivers among the best hair restoration Toronto has available. As a board certified facial plastic specialist, he adheres to a strict set of hair restoration standards.
In addition to standard male hair transplantation, Dr. Asaria goes several steps further. He offers female hair transplants, eyebrow transplants and facial hair transplants. With this broad array of cutting edge techniques, Dr. Asaria delivers among the best hair transplants Toronto has available. His unique approach has been been featured internationally on CNN and BBC.
Learn more about Dr. Asaria
Meet Dr. Ashlin Alexander
"Hair Restoration Surgery is a deeply personal, intensely delicate, highly technical and profoundly creative undertaking. Understanding the personal nature of these procedures is an integral part of building relationships with my patients, and is inherent in every aspect of my practice."
Dr. Ashlin Alexander is a board-certified Head and Neck Surgeon specializing in Facial Plastic Surgery and Hair Restoration Surgery. Hair loss is a condition that is close to Dr. Alexander's heart, as he saw one of his siblings lose his hair at a very young age. Dr. Alexander witnessed the social challenges and stigma his brother faced, and this has inspired him to want to make a difference in the lives of people with hair loss. As a Facial Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Alexander understands all aspects of facial harmony. Providing an aesthetic hairline functions to frame the face, delineate normal facial proportions and restore youthfulness. Dr. Alexander has been trained in the most technically advanced techniques of hair transplantation surgery, which look entirely natural.
Learn more about Dr. Ashlin Alexander
Facial Hair Transplant
Perhaps a lesser-known branch of hair restoration, facial hair transplantation is a very important part of Dr. Asaria's practice. For men lacking facial hair, this technique is the perfect option to restore masculinity. Just like transplanting hair on top of the head, hair is first harvested from an abundant hair source before it is precisely implanted in the beard area. Dr. Asaria's employs careful consideration during implantation, ensuring hair growth is directionally natural.Learn more
Eyebrow Transplants
As an extension of facial hair transplants, Dr. Asaria also offers eyebrow transplants. An almost startlingly important feature of the face, the eyebrows allow for a broad range of expression. When they are lost to genetics, disease or other factors, one's resulting appearance can be less than ideal. Just as with any other form of hair restoration, Dr. Asaria carefully grafts individual follicles into the eyebrow area. As a board certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, his attention to detail is relentless, always striving to provide the best hair transplant Toronto has available.Learn more
Your hair transplant Consultation With Dr. Jamil Asaria
If you are interested in what our patients call the best hair transplantation Toronto has available, your next step is a private consultation with Dr. Asaria. During this time, he will thoroughly analyze your hair pattern, allowing him to construct a custom tailored plan to deliver maximum relief from hair loss. Throughout the consultation, Dr. Asaria's purpose is giving you the information necessary to make an educated decision regarding hair transplantation. Rather than focusing on his products and procedures, he starts with your specific needs and uses those as a foundation.
Dr. Asaria is not only a facial plastic surgeon—he is also a board-certified head and neck surgeon. He has an intimate understanding of all structures on the head, giving him a keen sense of how to give each patient the best possible outcome. His facility is fully licensed for hair transplantation procedures. With the above qualities, Dr. Asaria's clinic is the perfect retreat to pursue hair restoration. To get started, please call our office and schedule a consultation.


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Here at Wild Fox Creative, we have grown a small but strong team of subject matter specialists such as web developers, web designers, copywriting and SEO experts, graphic designers and business consultants.
Our team are dedicated to helping you to grow your business and achieve your goals, whatever they may be.
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Blame It on the Rain: Why You Feel Sleepy in Stormy Weather - It can be incredibly tempting to crawl back into bed on rainy mornings like today. Maybe you don't want to brave the wet roads on your commute to work, maybe you just want to watch the storm, but one thing is for certain: you don't want to get out of bed. We wanted to know why at Mattress Warehouse, and we scoured the Internet for answers. Here's what we found out:
How to Make Your Mattress Last Longer - A good mattress is a good investment. A quality mattress will help you sleep better for years to come. You can protect your investment, plus, a longer-lasting mattress means greater comfort for as long as your mattress lasts. Awareness of how to keep your mattress in good shape for the long haul.
Get Your Kids Back on Track with a Back-to-School Sleep Schedule - The end of summer means your kids are going back to school. They're excited about seeing their friends, maybe they're excited about learning new things. Maybe you're excited to get some structure back in their lives. A structured schedule means set times for going to bed and waking up.
College Football Team Takes Sleep Game Up a Notch - Any football coach will tell you, "Championships are won in August." One college football team has realized that what goes on off the field is just as important as what goes on during practice. The University of Tennessee (UT) has started requiring that each player has a sleep tracking device and a sleep coach to help him interpret the new sleep data.
Get Rid of Your 40-Year-Old Mattress - An Old Mattress Can Wreck Havoc on Your Health A survey in the UK revealed that up to 30,000 people might be sleeping on a mattress older than 40 years. Also, 28 percent of the people surveyed were sleeping on mattresses over eight years old, and five percent have kept their mattress for 15 years. […]
Blue Light Before Bed May Be Killing You - By now we've all heard that reading on an iPad before you check out for the night makes it harder to fall asleep, but it also affects your alertness and sleepiness the next day according to research conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The study found that anyone who uses a laptop, smartphone, or certain TVs before bed could be impacted.
The Best Summertime Bedding - Many of us don't switch out bedding every season. But, it may be a great idea to consider changing out your sheets for a set that won't worsen a hot night. Put your flannel bedding in the closet, and read on for tips for choosing the best sheets to keep you cool and comfortable this […]
3 Healthy Bedtime Snacks to Help You Sleep - At Mattress Warehouse, we love bedtime snacks as much as the next person. Going to bed on an empty stomach can mean a restless night, which can mean that you'll be tired, cranky and irritable the next morning. That's no fun for you or anyone you have to have to interact with--or who has to interact with you. We've put together a list of great bedtime snacks that will fill you up and help you get a good night's sleep.
The Best Storm Movies to Watch in Bed - The crazy storm last night that flooded I-70 and caused chaos for drivers' evening commute got us thinking. We've covered the best horror movies and the best baseball movies to watch in bed in other posts. We can't think of any better way to spend a rainy day than watching movies about how much worse the storm could get. Storms in movies and literature have brought Dorothy to Oz and Robinson Crusoe to a deserted island. We've put together a list of our favorite storm movies to watch in bed:
Custom Foam: What You Need to Know Video - Custom Foam for Any Project Mattress Warehouse proudly offers foam in a variety of densities, firmness and cuts for any custom upholstery, mattress, or furniture project. Contact us at (913) 291-7200 for all your custom foam cutting needs.


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In the Customer Contact Centre in Birchwood, we champion the voice of the customer. With online and offline teams in one department we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. The team has responsibility for delivering a brilliant customer experience across all customer channels from voice, online, email or webchat.
Our contact centre agents answer inbound calls from our British Airways Executive Club members 365 days a year. We book amazing experiences for them and add value by promoting our partners and suggesting new products and ways of collecting and spending Avios. Our agents speak to our members over the phone, over email and webchat.
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The Contact Centre support functions consist of Planning & Operations, Integration, and Business & Online Support. All are fundamental to the mechanics of the Contact Centre. With a focus on managing staff schedules and customer and airline disruption, they are also responsible for operational budgets and planning.
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Taken by the Dark Energy Camera of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, this accidental picture of Comet Lovejoy must be one of the most beautiful comet portraits we've ever seen.
Below is the unedited composite image created by the Dark Energy Survey team, and you may want to download the glorious high-resolution version—all 50MB of it—here for all the amazing details.
Update: researcher Brian Nord joined the conversation below and gave us a nice explanation about why and how this imaging was accidental. Thanks a lot!
This was an accidental catch, because Dark Energy Camera scans the sky methodically over a very large region of the sky. Comet Lovejoy only takes up a very small part of the sky, and we didn't intend to point at it, but the camera happened to scanning that part of the sky at that time.


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Unique to the premium lumber industry in the Southeast, City Hardwoods was birthed from the idea that woodworkers, designers, makers and general consumers didn't have a place where they could personally handpick the perfect selection of top-quality lumber species for their unique projects. Some of them needed a place to simply buy their materials, while others wanted somewhere to dream up an idea and then hand it over to our team to make it a reality for them…we gave them a place to do just that.
City Hardwoods is the hub for all things wood. It's where a community of makers, craftsmen, weekend warriors and experienced tradesmen alike come for the products and even training that they need to make the things that they love.
If you don't have the tools, we offer competitive processing rates that allow you to have your lumber dressed and dimensioned for a professional, ready-to-build project.


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Historic Christmas CD comes to Itunes and Amazon.com for charity as NBC network stars, country and bluegrass Hall of Famers all joined their voices for drug abuse prevention on a project that created the first major bluegrass music collaboration featuring numerous legendary performers with a TV show cast.
"In the Heat of the Night" stars Alan Autry, "Bubba Skinner," and Randall Franks, "Officer Randy Goode," organized the effort under Autry-Franks Productions bringing together the cast and numerous stars of country, bluegrass and gospel music to assist. Autry and Franks just released Christmas Time's A Comin' CD on Itunes and Amazon.com still focusing on its original purpose.
"Last year we heard from many Heat fans who were really pleased that we once again made the actual CD available," Franks said. "Folks can still hold a piece of the show's history in their hands by getting the CD including photos of the cast and of the historic recording sessions. But now, in addition if they just want to download the music or simply hear a sample they can. Their download and CD purchases help us help others."
Franks was the studio producer on the eight-month long production that included over 60 performers, visited seven studios in four states, included 12 recording engineers and took over 175 studio hours to complete. "Whether its Carroll O'Connor's 'Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella,' Crystal Fox and her version of 'The Christmas Song' or Alan Autry's 'Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer', there are some musical tastes that fit almost every palate," Franks said.
The CD was originally released in association with Sonlite Records, Crimson Records and MGM Worldwide Television Group and debuted officially from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry with a special appearance by Franks, Autry and show co-star David Hart. It is available again in association with original partner Sonlite Records, but this time exclusively through the non-profit Share America Foundation, Inc. continuing the original purpose denoted by the cast and music stars.
Autry and Franks ("Let's Live Everyday Like It Was Christmas") joined other cast members including the late Carroll O'Connor, the late Howard Rollins ("The Night Before Christmas"), Anne-Marie Johnson ("Little Drummer Boy"), Hart (""Let It Snow), Geoffrey Thorne ("I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"), and Fox to perform a favorite Christmas song. Other cast members including Wilbur Fitzgerald, Bob Penny and Sharon Pratt joined in on group performances of "Jingle Bells" and "Christmas Time's A Comin'."
Franks and Autry brought together several music stars that donated their performances. Among them Country Music Hall of Fame members Jimmy Dickens, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, the late Kitty Wells, the late Pee Wee King, and the late Grant Turner. Other stars included Jesse McReynolds, the late Jim McReynolds, Jerry Douglas, the Whites, Mac Wiseman, the Marksmen Quartet, Ralph Stanley, the Lewis Family, the late Doug Dillard, the late Chubby Wise, Mose Davis, Bobby Wright, the late Johnnie Wright, the late Josh Graves, the late Jimmy Martin, Buddy Spicher, Jim Hoke, Abe Manuel, Jr., Ken Holloway, John Farley, Bill Everett, the late Gene Daniell and Wayne Lewis.
The project includes the sounds of bluegrass, jazz, rhythm and blues, Cajun, country and pop. Fans can also Like the project on its new Facebook page and find original cast interviews about the project at Randall Franks TV on YouTube. The CD is also available online at www.shareamericafoundation.org or via mail for a donation of $20, inside the U.S., and $25, outside the U.S., to the Share America Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 42, Tunnel Hill, Ga. 30755.
Alan Autry is currently appearing in the TV series "Hart of Dixie" while Franks is acting in films with his latest project coming to theaters in 2014.
The duo joined musical forces again in 2013 releasing the Americana CD Mississippi Moon: Country Traditions featuring 11 country, bluegrass and gospel songs, also available on Itunes and Amazon.com.
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Smart Facility Services with IoT
In September a new project started called Smart Facility Services with IoT. The project involves partners as Umeå municipality, Norsjö municipality, Umeå energi, Intensive, Umefast, Fältcom, Elsys, Vakin, the county council of Västerbotten and Umeå university. Two Ph.D. students are employed in the project, one at the Department of Informatics (Umeå) and one at Applied Physics. The aim of the project is to develop new data driven facility services. The project will run until June 2020. Katrin Jonsson is leading the project.


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Suicide Prevention: Understanding Diverse Experiences and Perspectives
2 Sep 2016 — 4 min read
Sept. 2, 2016 - In elementary school, an acquaintance died from an overdose of medication. Because of this person's background, some people believed the death was from an intentional overdose. I was saddened and confused by her death. That was my first experience with death. I had seen her that week. We, as kids, were never told whether her overdose was unintentional or intentional. But hearing people suspect that the death was intentional gave me my first exposure to suicide, as well as to people "whispering" about suicide.
Suicide is heartbreaking and can be difficult to understand. Suicide outreach can be difficult due to the silence, secrecy and labeling associated with suicide and suicidal self-harm. Many families want to keep information to themselves when a family member expresses suicidal ideation, attempts suicide, or dies by suicide. There are cultures and communities in which suicide is not considered a real problem; or is not considered a problem to be shared with people outside the community. This is why suicide outreach needs to be culturally aware of varying perspectives including environments in which suicide, suicidal self-harm, and mental health conditions tend to be ignored and shamed.
The need for cultural awareness made me interested in research and community activism for suicide and suicidal self-harm. I am a sociologist and criminologist. Sociologists and criminologists have theorized about and studied suicide for centuries. I began reading more about suicide and suicidal self-harm while in graduate school at VCU in Richmond, VA (where I am from).
In 2004, while taking a qualitative research methods course for an NCSU doctorate, I did fieldwork with Jane Ann Miller (who is now Public Health Program Consultant with N.C. Division of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services). I greatly appreciate Jane Ann Miller helping me to attend mental health and suicide presentations and panel discussions. I learned a great deal from the practitioners and researchers. However, I recall one practitioner saying suicide is the "most selfish thing." I was quite shocked by this statement. That statement highlights different perspectives and also the need to be careful when speaking about suicide to avoid labeling and stigmatizing people who have thoughts of suicide, people who have attempted suicide, people who have died by suicide and survivors of suicide. This furthered my interest in suicide outreach and suicide research. My 2010 doctoral dissertation examined the relationship between measures of Black political attainment and Black socioeconomic status on counts of Black suicide and counts of white suicide.
When I moved to Winston-Salem, NC in the summer of 2010, I became a trainee in the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training at Wake Forest University. Being trained in ASIST gave me access to outreach and research on mental health and suicide. I became a walker, donation recipient, and volunteer for the Triad Out of the Darkness Walk. Years later I became part of the NC Suicide Prevention Plan Consulting and Working Group sponsored by Injury and Violence Prevention Branch and UNC Department of Health Behavior.
Soon thereafter I joined the Board of Directors for the NC chapter of AFSP. There is tremendous value in being part of this chapter. This has taught me a lot about suicide from the standpoints of outreach, prevention, volunteerism, research, and survivors of suicide. People are working to eliminate silence and shaming; and increase understanding and outreach at the local and national levels. We welcome everyone to get involved through volunteerism and activism. Thankfully, I was the Volunteer Coordinator for the 2014 Triad OOTD Walk and am the Volunteer Coordinator for the 2016 Triad OOTD Walk. I am also the faculty advisor for the Salem College OOTD Campus Walk—we have had two Campus Walks and look forward to our 2017 Campus Walk. I am grateful for these experiences. They provide opportunities for learning and community activism for suicide, suicidal self-harm, and mental health.
Suicide awareness and suicide outreach are important and I strongly support individuals and organizations that take part in these efforts. My work also emphasizes cultural variations in suicide, suicidal self-harm, and mental health—these are not objective topics that are void of variation. I do presentations (both in the community and for professional conferences) and write guest articles to address such variance. Examples of my writings include "The Larger Implications of the Death of Darryl Hunt" in Winston-Salem Journal and "Self-Harm and Suicide among Blacks: Redefining and Re-categorizing Behaviors" on criticalmassprogress.com.
I believe people should support suicide awareness and suicide outreach. And we need to reach different, diverse audiences. All humans are culturally diverse. We are all diverse in experiences and perspectives. We all have demographics (including but not limited to gender identity, sexual identity, age, physical health, mental health and race and ethnicity) that can impact our thoughts and behaviors. I am grateful for this diversity and grateful that AFSP reaches different, diverse audiences at the local and national levels.