 management and supervisory boards and ranked among the foremost organisers of economic life in Slovakia in the interwar period.
From 5 September 1944 to the dissolution of rebel bodies at the end of October 1944 he was the first commissioner of finance of the Slovak National Council. After the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising, he was arrested and taken to Germany where he died in unknown circumstances.Description (provided by applicant): Parental smoking behavior and a number of general parenting practices have been associated with the probability that an adolescent will become a.smoker. Early adolescence appears to be an optimal developmental time for targeting parental practices to reduce adolescent problem behavior. The proposed study is a randomized, controlled trial of a telephone counseling intervention designed to affect parenting practices previously demonstrated to influence a dolescent smoking. Working with 2000 families with 12-14 year old adolescents, this intervention seeks to adapt an effective school-based program (The Adolescent Transition Program--ATP) into a community setting, using a computer assisted telephone counseling structured protocol. We have previously demonstrated that this type of telephone counseling is an effective way to influence other types of health behavior. Both the ATP and our other telephone counseling programs are based on the principles of cognitive social learning theory and motivational interviewing. We will enroll households from a population-based representative survey of Californians. Intervention goals are that parents will maintain general protective parenting practices, such as monitoring and setting limits to autonomy within a responsive relationship with the adolescent through at least age 16 years. Further, the intervention will encourage parents actively partner with the California Tobacco Control Program in promoting nonsmoking norms and nonsmoking environment, and in increasing the rate of adoption of tobacco control related practices including, a) communicating strong parental expectations against smoking behavior, b) establishing a smoke-free home, c) monitoring and intervening when peers use or promote the use of tobacco, and d) promoting demand reduction strategies to reduce adolescent receptivity to tobacco industry promotional activity. The primary assessment of adherence to the intervention in both study groups as well as the effectiveness in changing smoking behavior will come from annual surveys of adolescents. Using these data, we will identify whether the intervention is associated with a significant reduction in the proportion of 15-16 year old adolescents who have experimented with smoking, as well as a reduction in the probability that they will be future dependent smokers. We will use surveys of both adolescents and parents to describe the natural history of protective parenting during the adolescent years. We will identify factors associated with these general protective parenting practices and barriers to implementing these practices. The surveys will also allow us to describe the natural history of how parents implement optimal tobacco control parenting practices, identify potential barriers to such practices, and develop potentially effective ways for overcoming these barriers.After three days of hiking (Saturday, Sunday, and Monday) we took the kids to do “kids stuff” which included an aquarium in town, a ropes course and some really expensive but dumb candy (that candy that you could buy at the store for $1, but is $7 when you get it out of a tub and they charge by the pound). Most importantly, the kids had fun; however, they did ask when can we get back to the place we’re staying and get on their Kindle Fires (yeah, we’re cheap, but we know they’re going to break them). I had to tell them the story about how I never got to go on summer vacation and I’m pretty sure that they don’t remember it at all.
Have fun today and see you tomorrow.
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“Our 5G future is about connecting everything, moving to a new network world that will open up possibilities for communications that we cannot even fully imagine today,” said FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel during the FCC’s August Meeting.
“By exponentially increasing the connections between people and things around us, this technology could become an input in everything we do, improving agriculture, education, health care, energy, transportation, and more. In the United States, if we want to reap the full benefits of this 5G future, it is essential we take action to advance our wireless leadership,” she announced.
The Boston Innovation Zone will be located at the Northeastern University and will cover 4.4 square kilometres (1.69 square miles), split into two areas. It will support the transition of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Colosseum network emulator to a shared platform usable by the academic community to accelerate research in wireless networked systems.
Among its functionalities, the Colosseum allows researchers to emulate full-stack communications and support artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.
The first area is located at Northeastern University’s main campus in Boston, MA, and will cover approximately 2.07 square kilometres (0.8 square miles).
The second area is located at Northeastern University’s satellite campus in Burlington, MA, and will cover around 2.33 square kilometres (0.9 square miles).
On the other hand, the Raleigh Innovation Zone, at North Carolina State University, will host the Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW). This initiative will create a city-scale platform to focus on new use cases for wireless technologies supported by unmanned aerial systems, including telecommunications, transportation, infrastructure monitoring, agriculture, and public safety.
According to the FCC, the AERPAW testbed will be the first platform to allow testing at scale of open beyond-5G solutions in unmanned aerial systems.
The first area of this Innovation Zone encompasses approximately 27.1 square kilometres (10.5 square miles) for testing over the NC State University campus, a suburban residential area, and a rural research farm.
The second area will extend into the town of Cary, NC, and cover approximately 7.76 square kilometres (3 square miles). The FCC anticipates this region will support four fixed towers with permanent wireless transceivers.
“Experimentation and innovation are critical to advancing the development of our communication networks. The FCC has a responsibility to encourage such efforts because they will hopefully lead to more benefits that will expand and enhance connectivity and promote US leadership and economic competitiveness around the world,” added FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks about the innovation zones.
The FCC also expanded the New York City Innovation Zone (known as COSMOS). It will now also cover the three Columbia University and City College of New York campus areas with a technical focus on ultra-high-bandwidth and low-latency wireless communications with tightly coupled edge computing.Home Entertainment Afro-soul singer SPHEMusic faces her fears with the release of her debut...
Having been in the music industry for 16 years, soulful songstress SPHEMusic is establishing herself as an artist with the release of her debut album “Beautiful”.
Born Siphelele Sokhela, the musician has had a passion for music from a young age and would bug her elder brother DJ Sox, (Mbusi Sokhela) who is one of the founding members of Durban’s Finest, to put her on a song.
She eventually got her bigger brother to give her an opportunity to record a demo and her voice was heard by fellow Durbanite DJ Bongz, who featured her on his smash hit “As long as you love me”.
This happened all while Sphe was still in high school, igniting her career in the musical space. Having been a part of a choir, the musician got to tour internationally to places like Germany, Russia and Estonia before heading into university.
Now SPHE is ready for South Africans to get to know her as more than just a feature collaborator with her debut offering.
IOL Entertainment caught up with the 33-year-old to find out about her comeback into the music scene, the making of “Beautiful” and all that is SPHEMusic.
Her debut album could be described as long overdue, considering how long she has been making music, however, life is known to take its own course – and that was the case with her.
The marketing graduate worked her way up the corporate ladder as a brand manager at one of the leading insurance companies in the country.
She has been doing music for a long time but is a rising/upcoming artist. One would think she takes offence at being put in that box, having done so many features in the past.
“I think I don’t mind people treating me as an upcoming artist because essentially I am.
“This is the first time I’m branching out on my own and instead