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It has been well documented that social anxiety is a complex psychological phenomenon, which is linked to personality traits and socio-environmental factors. In addition, acculturation processes are associated with Asian Americans' experience of social anxiety. The purpose of this study was to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of social anxiety by integrating personality and cultural factors that can affect social anxiety in Asian Americans. The Five-Factor Theory of personality (FFT; McCrae & Costa, 1996, 2008) served as the basis for a comprehensive model, which included the Big Five traits as basic tendencies and bicultural identity integration and acculturation/enculturation as characteristic adaptations that impact social anxiety. Asian Americans (N = 255) from across the United States responded to an on-line survey that included: a demographic questionnaire, the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS; Mattick & Clarke, 1998), the Big Five Inventory (BFI; Benet-Martínez & John, 1998), the Asian American Multidimensional Acculturation Scale (AAMAS; Chung, Kim, & Abreu, 2004), and the Bicultural Identity Integration Scale (BIIS-1; Benet-Martínez, 2003a). Structural equations modeling and hierarchical multiple regression were used to test the study hypotheses. As hypothesized, the acculturation/enculturation (AAMAS) and bicultural identity integration (BII) constructs were fairly independent. Contrary to expectations, acculturation (AAMAS-EA) was as good a predictor of social anxiety as perceptions of conflict between one's two cultures (BII-C). BII Conflict, but not BII Distance (BII-D) or acculturation/enculturation, contributed incremental prediction of social anxiety beyond the Big Five traits. An integrated model, in which selected Big Five traits predicted acculturation/enculturation and bicultural identity integration, which, in turn, predicted social anxiety, fit the data well. For example, Neuroticism had both direct and indirect effects on social anxiety via BII Conflict. The findings showed the importance of taking into account both personality traits and cultural factors when predicting social anxiety in Asian American populations. In addition, the findings indicated that the concept of bicultural identity may provide incremental value in understanding social anxiety beyond traditional acculturation concepts. Clinical implications and limitations of the study were discussed. Consideration of an integrated approach in social anxiety research was advocated.


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The U.S. Department of Labor is likely to get plenty of input from employers and their representatives in response to its request for public comment on the Family and Medical Leave Act and its regulations.
Observers say employers have long complained that the current regulations are unclear, particularly those involving serious medical conditions; unscheduled, intermittent leave; and medical certification procedures.
Conflicting federal court decisions have further exacerbated the situation, they say. But many observers say they remain pessimistic about the likelihood of any substantive changes in the regulations (see story, page 6).
Noting that it has been more than a decade since the DOL first published regulations to help employers comply with the FMLA, the DOL said it is seeking comments on numerous technical as well as general issues related to the FMLA.
Under the FMLA, an employee at an organization with at least 50 workers can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid job-protected leave annually to care for a newborn, a newly adopted child or a seriously ill family member, or to recover from a medical condition. Employers are required to maintain group health benefits during the leave, and, once the leave ends, to restore the employee to the same or an equivalent job.
According to the DOL, an estimated 6.1 million workers took FMLA leave in 2005.
"I think the original intent of it is something that we as employers all agree with," said Debbie Robbins, human resources director for the city of Gillette, Wyo. "But there's always that 5% of your employee base that wants to push the limits."
Employers have few concerns about the "family" part of the FMLA, which lets workers take time to care for a newborn or adopted child, say observers. Their problems instead lie with the ambiguity--and abuse--of provisions involving medical leave.
"A lot of employees work the system," and in instances where there are absenteeism issues, they "wave the FMLA flag," rather than risk disciplinary action or termination, said David S. Mohl, an Atlanta-based senior consultant with Willis National Employee Benefits Practice.
"We've had people go out on extended (FMLA) leave" when they are working unsuccessfully under performance plans to correct problems with their work, said Linda Lulli, associate vp for human resources at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. "We're starting to see that happen more frequently," she said.
Clarity for those administering the leave would be useful, she said.
A particular sore point with employers is the use of unscheduled and frequent intermittent leave. Observers note that under current regulations, employers must permit employees to take intermittent FMLA leave in increments that are as small as the smallest time period their employer's payroll system uses to account for absences, which in some cases can be as small as six minutes.
Permitting employees to take time off in such small increments "creates an incredible burden from an administrative standpoint as well as just from a business operational standpoint," said Shelly Wolff, Stamford, Conn.-based North American practice leader for health and productivity at Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
"It takes quite a bit of effort" on the part of supervisors to make sure intermittent leave is not being abused, said Gary Bushman, assistant human resources director for the city of Provo, Utah, where employees can take intermittent leave in 15-minute increments.
"I think our biggest issue with the FMLA is that it doesn't allow us to get our arms around employees who abuse it"--particularly intermittent FMLA, where it can be easily granted--"and then we can't control it," said Ms. Robbins. "I'd like to see the ability to tighten it up a little bit more," she said.
Business groups would like the DOL to allow employers "to charge a minimum of a few hours for each instance of intermittent leave," as well as instituting a requirement that employees give advance notice, unless there is an emergency, said Geoffrey Manville, a principal in Mercer Human Resource Consulting's Washington office.
Another problem is the definition of a "serious" medical condition. Observers say the regulations, which indicate that employees are eligible for leave if they are incapacitated for more than three days and are under continuing medical care, has been abused to cover minor conditions such as coughs, colds and headaches.
Contributing to the confusion is that federal courts have differed on the issue of whether a particular condition should be considered serious, said Arthur Silbergeld, a partner with Proskauer Rose L.L.P. in Los Angeles.
The procedures in certifying an employee's eligibility for FMLA leave have been an issue as well.
"An employer can require medical certification for an employee or a family member's serious health condition, but the rules prohibit direct contact between an employer and the employee's or family members' health care provider without the employee's consent. So when a certification is incomplete...the employer has to send the employee back to the provider," said Mr. Manville.
"You'd be shocked at the forms that employers get" from physicians, said Victoria J. Schweitzer, senior vp in Aon Consulting's health and productivity practice in San Francisco. She said she has seen certification forms that say that an employee gets tired and should be allowed "as much FMLA as she needs. How can an employer plan or schedule with that? It's impossible."
"Business groups would like the DOL to allow employers to contact the provider to confirm the authenticity of certification and legitimacy of the employee's claims," said Mr. Manville.
Observers say if the employer decides to dispute the request, it must obtain an opinion from its own doctor. And if there is a disagreement between the employee and the employer's physician, a third, neutral doctor must be agreed upon to issue an opinion as well--with both the employer's doctor and the neutral physician compensated by the employer, say observers.
This "can be too costly...and not worth the effort," said Jason Straczewski, director, human resources policy at the National Assn. of Manufacturers in Washington.
In fact, "many times when you get to the third opinion, the employee's already back at work," said Matt Morris, an employment law consultant with Lincolnshire, Ill.-based Hewitt Associates Inc.
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Sal "The Voice" Valentinetti …Friday, Sept 15, 2017 @ Stadium Theatre Woonsocket RI
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With sixteen hours of daylight during the summer months up here at 53&geg;N latitude my wife Liz and I take full advantage of the long days to explore further afield around Wales than we can manage during the cold, dark, winter.
With so many beautiful and dramatic locations to choose from in this part of the world we really are spoilt for choice, but one location we make a point of visiting at least once a summer are the wonderful Cregennan Lakes.
Nestled high in the Snowdonia mountains above the Mawddach estuary, the Cregennan Lakes are an outdoor enthusiasts delight, with fresh, clean air to breathe and unspoilt natural scenery to hike through, with hardly anybody else in view.
Of course, I can't just look at the views without unlimbering my camera to try to justice in a photograph to the mountains and lakes laid out so tantalisingly in front of me.
In this case, 'doing justice' meant shooting hundreds of still images in order to create my Cregennan Lakes Timelapse #7 video, of which this image is one of the frames, featuring fluffy cumulus clouds blowing over the surface of the lake with Cader Idris in the background.
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Lens - 17-40mm zoom @ 17mm
Exposure - 1/500 sec @ f4, ISO100
Filters - 2 stop neutral density graduated filter used to reduce the brightness of the sky relative to the landscape.
Location - Cregennan Lakes, Snowdonia, Wales
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Comments - This image is one of hundreds taken in order to create my Cregennan Lakes Timelapse #7 video.
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Drugs thought to be reason behind petty thefts as two are denied bail
Two men have been denied bail after pleading not guilty to a number of minor thefts
Two men, who are thought to have serious substance abuse problems, have been denied bail after pleading not guilty to a number of minor thefts.
Paul Gauci Borda, 23, and Omar Bekbak, 30, both from Gzira were arraigned before magistrate Rachel Montebello this afternoon, accused of having stolen tools from a parked vehicle yesterday, which charge was aggravated by the value of the objects stolen.
Gauci Borda alone was also accused of stealing deodorants, two charity donation boxes and a number of bottles of alcohol from several shops. Bekbak was separately charged with breaching bail and a probation order.
Lawyer Martin Fenech entered not guilty pleas for the accused arguing that the crimes were not serious, but prosecuting inspector Jonathan Ransley retorted, saying "the fact that they are stealing stupid things means that their problem is very serious indeed."
The court heard how the men, who appeared drowsy and rested their heads on the desk in front of them, were heavy drug users.
Family members wept as a request for bail was denied, after the court took a look at the accused's criminal records and said it was "entirely unconvinced" that the accused could be trusted to observe their bail conditions. The court, however, recommended that the director of prisons to make necessary arrangements to give the accused the medical assistance they needed.


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San Diego County was the "meth capital of the world" in the '90s, but the problem hasn't quite disappeared over the years. While the majority of the methamphetamine found in the area is manufactured in Mexico and smuggled into the U.S., plenty of labs still crop up all over the county. These…Read More


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Brachial Artery Peak Velocity Variation to Predict Fluid Responsiveness
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00890071
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First Posted : April 29, 2009
Last Update Posted : April 29, 2009
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|Condition or disease
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|Other: Fluid administration
Predicting the hemodynamic response to fluid administration (or fluid responsiveness) in critical ill patients is still a matter of concern, since fluid overload could worse the clinical situation of these patients. Parameters of fluid responsiveness usually require an invasive monitoring (like arterial pulse pressure variation).
We hypothesize that noninvasive evaluation of respiratory variation of peak velocity in brachial artery using Doppler ultrasound could provide a feasible estimation on fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients with acute circulatory failure.
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|Brachial Artery Peak Velocity Variation to Predict Fluid Responsiveness in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
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Acute circulatory failure
Patients for whom the decision to give fluids was taken because the presence of one or more clinical signs of acute circulatory failure.
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500 ml of synthetic colloid (Voluven®, hydroxyethylstarch 6%; Fresenius, Bad Homburg, Germany) infused over 30 minutes
- Predictive value of respiratory variation in brachial artery peak velocity before volume expansion assessed by ROC curve. We defined responser as patients that increased stroke volume index equal or more than 15% after fluid administration. [ Time Frame: immediately after volume expansion ]
- Evaluate the predictive value of pulse pressure variation for predicting hemodynamic response to fluid administration, comparing with the predictive value of respiratory variation of brachial artery peak velocity. [ Time Frame: immediately after fluid administration ]
- Evaluate the predictive value of stroke volume variation for predicting hemodynamic response to fluid administration, comparing with the predictive value of respiratory variation of brachial artery peak velocity. [ Time Frame: immediately after volume expansion ]
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Patients with controlled mechanical ventilation, equipped with an indwelling radial artery catheter and for whom the decision to give fluids will be taken because the presence of one or more clinical signs of acute circulatory failure:
- systolic blood pressure <90 mmHg (or a decrease >50 mmHg in previously hypertensive patients)
- the need of vasopressor drugs
- oliguria (urine output <0.5 ml/kg/min for at least 2 h)
- tachycardia
- delayed capillary refilling
- the presence of skin mottling
Exclusion Criteria:
- Contraindication for the volume administration: evidence of fluid overload and/or of hydrostatic pulmonary edema
- Patients with instable cardiac rhythm
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00890071
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|Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain, 11407
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|M. Ignacio Monge García
|Hospital del SAS de Jerez
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|Manuel Ignacio Monge García, Hospital del SAS de Jerez
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What's the Difference Between a Radler and a Shandy?
Now you never have to choose between beer and a cocktail.
Living in Boston, you desperately look for the first trace of spring as soon as the snow begins to dwindle and muddy drifts only cling to patches of your morning commute. I moved to New England from Texas in 2011, and during my tenure, experienced two of the worst winters in its long, frigid history. But the dramatic changing of the seasons made me appreciate two things: the start of Red Sox season (if only to soak up some vitamin D along Yawkey Way) and the first crack of many Steigl Radlers—a blend of grapefruit soda and the Austrian brewery's own Goldbrau lager. Away went the heavier brown spirits (minus a splash of bourbon for a Boulevardier or two), in favor of low ABV beer cocktails, perfect for swilling on patios.
Another choice quaff for al fresco days? Narragansett's Del's Shandy. The Rhode Island standout combines its flagship lager with lemon concentrate from another Rhody favorite, Del's Frozen Lemonade. So, is there a difference between a shandy and a radler, despite their very similar sweet-tart flavor profiles? The short answer: not really.
A radler—which means "cyclist" in German—is a beer mixed with lemonade or citrus soda. The beer-loving culture that they are, the Germans essentially view a radler like Gatorade or any other post-workout sports drink. A shandy is a British term for the same kind of beer concoction, albeit with more variations. In addition to lemonade and lemon-lime soda, shandies may also include ginger beer, ginger ale, or fruit juice.
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Whether you prefer to call them radlers or shandies, a number of great canned varieties abound. But you can also make souped-up versions at home using your favorite summertime fruits, herbs, brews, and bitters. For example, salty gose beers (or other sours) muddled with basil and lemonade in our Lemon-Basil Sour Shandy. Or a better craft pilsner (such as Mikkeller Brewing's California Dream) blended with San Pellegrino Pompelmo and grapefruit bitters in our Grapefruit Radler—grapefruit garnish not optional. Like a Pimm's Cup or G&T, these beer-based creations are a cinch to make, and ideal for lounging outdoors.


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Violent Homophobe? Inside 'Duck Dynasty' Star Phil Robertson's Bloody Bar Fight
Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson is a God-fearing — if homophobic — family patriarch and reality star. But before he found Jesus, he was a hard-partying bar owner who left two people bloodied in a bar fight! His wife Miss Kay opens up for the first time about the legendary brawl in her new book The Women of Duck Commander, and RadarOnline.com has all of the shocking details.
Phil "was cold and harsh during those days," Miss Kay remembers of the early 1970s. "He was mean and threatening to me, and I was terrified of what would happen to my boys and me."
After his drinking forced him to leave his position as a schoolteacher, he leased bar, and just over a year into his tenancy, the owners of the building decided to check in — and things got ugly.
"The landlords showed up one day and cussed out Phil," Miss Kay writes, "saying they did not like the way he was running the place and were raising his rent. They were rough people…"
"Those people were not smart," she continues. "They had no idea that trying to push Phil Robertson around and cuss him out would lead to disaster. He got so angry with them that he beat them up — both of them."
She recalls, "By the time I got to the bar to try to figure out what was happening, all I saw were people being loaded into an ambulance."
Duck Dynasty: Family Stands Behind Phil, Gingrich Gripes & More
Phil, meanwhile, "slipped out a back door," Miss Kay writes. "I knew he would be in trouble with the law and the only way to avoid that would be for him to hide out [in the woods]." He left no word where he'd be staying, and his wife was forced to clean up his mess on her own.
But it wasn't over yet. When Phil's victims got out of the hospital, "they put up a barricade around my trailer," Miss Kay claims. "The boys and I were trapped! I couldn't move the trailer and I couldn't leave."
Eventually, "They offered to drop the charges against Phil if I would pay them a certain amount of money. It was extortion, but I paid them because it was the only way I knew to clear Phil's name and get the boys and myself away from them. I gave them almost all the money we had except a little bit that was in a lockbox, and they gave me the trailer."
Not long after, she reunited with Phil, and not long after that, he found God, beginning his path to the man he is today.
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Hobgood lights up for a cause
More stories from Haley James
April 23, 2020
Christmas time has come once more, and everyone is preparing; lights are coming out of their boxes, wreathes have reappeared, and ugly Christmas sweaters are back in season. Hobgood is no exception to these holiday antics.
"It's very beautiful to see all of the different lights from various organizations that support great causes. It's nice to be with your family and friends and have a good time," Emily Smith, sophomore, said.
At the park, decorations have been strung, trees have been adorned with ornaments, and the annual Holiday Lights of Hope display has come together once again. Volunteers from a variety of programs gathered on the 26th of November to help set up and bring the Christmas magic back to life once more.
Every year during the first few weeks of December, Hobgood park creates this display. The whole exhibit has more than 2,000,000 lights for viewers, along with concessions and vendors participating and a Santa for children. The tickets are only ten dollars, and children under 14 get in for free. Some people may argue that it's overpriced, but all the money raised through the program go straight to benefit the Anna Crawford Children's Center.
"The whole thing is for a great cause and it's so fun. It makes you happy that you donated, and you get to see the lights at the same time," Bella McCollum, freshman, said.
Holiday Lights of Hope also includes different activities apart from the lights for people who buy tickets. Chick-fil-A hosts the Cherokee County Christmas Maze, and the Tunnel of Hope is another option for kids of all ages. Live carolers and musicians also lend participants their time and perform on stage near the center of the four baseball fields.
"I thought all of the decoration that came from the groups and organizations was magical, because whenever you see children walk into the exhibits they're all super excited. It shows you what the holidays are all about," Ezra Robles, senior, said.
Whether you are looking for something fun to do with our friends on a Friday night or searching for the perfect opportunity for a date, Holiday Lights of Hope has you covered.
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Parents' Interest Class On 30th October,19
Dancing is a great way for people of all ages to get and stay in shape and it has many positive health benefits. It can improve muscle tone and strength and lead to weight management. stronger bones and reduced risk of osteoporosis. Surely, exercising regularly, every day if possible, is the single most important thing you can do for your health.
Do you want to learn to this fitness dancing? Our parent, Ms Jim, will share with us how to dance. If you have already signed up for this workshop, please come at 1:30 p.m. at the Dancing Room (4/F) and wear sports wear.


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An honest dishonest mistake
The BBC cenotaph cock-up was clearly an accident but it highlights a real problem
Phil McDuff 13th November 2019
One of the worst things about "The Discourse" is the way people will respond to a structural or systemic criticism by appealing to individual behaviour and intent. The archetype of this is the banal racism argument: "People of colour make less money and have worse access to services than those racialised as white" vs "but I'm not a racist!" But it crops up everywhere, and the news media is a particular hotbed.
This week the BBC found itself embroiled in another internet scandal over biased reporting after running footage of the 2016 remembrance service at the cenotaph rather than the recently shot footage. This seems as if it was simply an honest mistake – the wrong video file was loaded off the content manager and nobody noticed until it was pointed out. This happens. An initial suggestion that a specific shot had been edited in to a new report now looks as if it wasn't accurate. There were simply two different files which got mixed up.
The mixup itself is small beans, but the background explains why it became a big issue. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, looking dishevelled and possibly hungover, had laid the wreath upside down this year. Again, a small mistake which, let's face it, does not matter. However it is impossible for anyone with a working knowledge of the British press to imagine a world in which the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, could have made such a small error without setting off giant klaxons in every newsroom in the country.
We have chosen to obsess furiously about the poppy pin and the cenotaph ceremony, which we have transformed from emblems of personal remembrance to mandatory performances of devotion to the state
Hammering left or liberal politicians for infractions against the codes of patriotism is a well-worn tabloid tactic. Often these codes are either newly made up specifically to be broken, or the kind of thing more often honoured in breach than observance. For instance, in the USA, many cable news segments were devoted to Barack Obama's precise level of patriotic observance during the many national anthems he attended while president, or the orientation of flag pins on his lapels – concerns which absolutely nobody genuinely held, but which were useful Trojan horses for the right's attack line of "black president bad and illegitimate".
In the UK we have chosen to obsess furiously about the poppy pin and the cenotaph ceremony, which we have transformed from emblems of personal remembrance to mandatory performances of devotion to the state. We can probably trace the origins of this transformation to Michael Foot and the infamous "Donkey Jacket" episode. Foot, then Labour leader, wore the wrong kind of coat to the remembrance day ceremony at the Cenotaph in 1981. Widely decried as scruffy and therefore unpatriotic, the media scrutiny of the donkey jacket incident was one more nail in Foot's substantial political coffin, and a contributory factor to his disastrous defeat at the 1983 general election.
Having settled on an attack line that worked, the British establishment has gleefully tried to repeat itself ever since. Any deviation from whatever arbitrary standard of behaviour Paul Dacre has decided applies this year is turned into a scandal and a series of questions about the politician's fealty to the crown, the troops, the state and the country. In general, although not exclusively, such attacks are targeted at the left, because, like Obama's detractors obsessing over flag pins, nobody actually gives a crap about the issues they're screaming about, but they do want an excuse to repeat "left wing bad traitor bad" as much as possible in the media.
A Conservative Prime Minister could fall over and shit himself on the Cenotaph and merit only 'minor gaffe' headlines
Possibly the greatest example of the genre was an article by Charles Moore in the Telegraph in 2015. After reminiscing over his own contribution to Michael Foot's downfall, he starts off by recognising that Corbyn has given him no crack into which to insert a knife. He dressed well, wore the poppy, knew the words to the hymns. But then Moore suggests, on the basis of absolutely no evidence whatsoever, "a more worrying interpretation" of Corbyn's performance.
"Could it be," Moore asks conspiratorially, "that Mr Corbyn, or those advising him, are wilier than they have been given credit for?" How can we be sure, in other words, that Corbyn isn't faking it? Because he's on the left and the left are basically all traitors, so you know, being too good at this stuff is also suspicious. We're onto you, Comrade Corbyn Stalin Hitler, if that's even your real name!
The contrast between the way Corbyn and Johnson are judged at the Cenotaph is informative because it demonstrates how concerns about adherence to arbitrary norms were never about those norms in the first place. Just as everyone has gone very, very quiet about flag pins now that President Donald Trump has slouched into the White House, a Conservative Prime Minister could fall over and shit himself on the Cenotaph and merit only "minor gaffe" headlines, while people still scrutinise the precise angle of Corbyn's head-nod to criticise him for insufficiently respectful bowing.
A shabby Corbyn putting a poppy wreath upside down would have been the only news story of the day
This is why the coverage being accidentally switched raised so many hackles. A shabby Corbyn putting a poppy wreath upside down would have been the only news story of the day. It would have been almost impossible for the footage to be accidentally mixed up because rather than a simple report about the uneventful remembrance ceremony, the BBC would have been elbow deep into its 15th hour of "wreathgate" coverage.
The small mistake the BBC producer made did not matter by itself, but it was reflective of a difference in coverage that's structural in nature. The absence of outraged coverage of Johnson's gaffe is a simple indicator that all those other times a left winger has been "exposed" as a secret traitor for only wearing two poppies have been basically fake. If people cared about it as a matter of principle, they would always care about it. They don't care about flag pins now that Boss Daddy Trump lets them be racist, and they don't really care about putting poppies upside down if it might paint Johnson in a bad light for the election campaign.
That's the real scandal here: the way that private remembrance and collective mourning has been debased so often by journalists who see it merely as a means of smearing politicians they dislike. The date of 11 November is chosen for our official remembrance services because it commemorates the end of hostilities in one of the most brutal and pointless wars ever fought on the continent; a war of such unrelenting horror that it shattered the nation. A country that had marched off in 1914, chipper and upbeat, was now nursing its shell-shocked soldiers and mourning the hundreds of thousands who hadn't made it back. The mythology of glorious patriotic war had run into the reality of gas attacks and trench foot. To take this tragedy, or the horrors that would follow in the 1940s, and use it to goad anyone for not being blindly devoted to the state is to miss the point entirely. But we have decided that this tasteless routine is normal now. No longer about remembering those who died choking in trenches far from home, instead we take the opportunity to scrutinise those we dislike and scream "traitor."
This episode gives us an opportunity to face up to the way we've been led along by a mendacious group of press barons
Johnson, like Trump, lacks the basic self-awareness to remember to play the game properly, and thus exposes it as having been a game all along. Rather than resorting to defences of individuals who may have made honest mistakes, the media in general – which includes the BBC – should look at the structural critique exposed by the way their coverage has differed. This episode gives us an opportunity to face up to the way we've been led along by a mendacious group of press barons and say "yeah that was shit, let's not do that any more." If you were so unconcerned about Johnson putting the wreath upside down that you didn't even notice that you ran the wrong footage, then you shouldn't be concerned about the next time someone at the Mail declares official open season on the Labour leader for some arbitrary "gaffe."
Even better, perhaps we can take this opportunity for a period of self reflection about how we got here and allowed our remembrance services to turn into these gauntlets of scrutiny rather than opportunities to reflect on the war dead. Perhaps we can turn a lens inwards and ask if we should have gone along with the screaming hysteria so often in the past. Perhaps we could even look at those who have been responsible for it and ask them why they did it, what they thought they got out of it, whether they're sorry.
I won't hold out much hope, but perhaps if we're only going to take one lesson from the BBC's gaffe, it should be that small mistakes by people who are trying their best should not be turned into national scandals.
Phil McDuff 13th November 2019


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New Urban Park Offers Engaging Public Open Space
Baltimore County Executive Don Mohler and a crowd of Towson supporters braved the wintry weather this morning to celebrate the completion of renovations to Patriot Plaza, which created a new urban park that brings more green space to downtown Towson. The plaza is located between the Historic Courthouse and Circuit Courthouse buildings.
The $5.5 million renovation project removed nearly two acres of impervious concrete and an inoperable fountain from the existing plaza, replacing it with 1.8 acres of attractive green space with new pavers, sidewalks, seating walls, lighting and furnishings. The new park better showcases the existing memorials dedicated to fallen Baltimore County police officers and fire fighters.
"Towson is evolving into a vibrant 21st century urban center and this transformed Patriot Plaza brings a modern and elegant, but also warm and inviting setting to downtown Towson," Mohler said. "We thank our community and civic leaders who gave helpful feedback that contributed to this design."
The Kamenetz administration sought input on the design from representatives of the Towson Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Towson Council of Community Associations (GTCCA), the Greater Towson Committee and the fire and police unions and memorial associations. The design was developed by Rubeling & Associates, a Towson architectural firm. The general contractor is Northpoint Builders and the civil engineering firm is JMT.
"The new park looks absolutely spectacular and we're thankful that County Executive Kamenetz committed to this project and County Executive Mohler brought it to completion," said Nancy Hafford, Executive Director of the Towson Chamber of Commerce. "We're hoping that next year we'll be able to host a number of great events in and around this wonderful new public open space."
Mohler unveiled a commemorative plaque in honor of former County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, who passed away in May of this year. "County Executive Kamenetz completely reimagined this plaza to expand the welcoming green feeling from the Courthouse Gardens into the plaza and make it a place where people would want to walk and relax, rather than just hurrying through," he said.
New Urban Park Coming to Towson Courthouses Next Summer
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz smashed through the concrete surface of the existing Patriot Plaza this morning, officially starting construction of a new urban park that brings more green open space to the people who live and work in, or visit, downtown Towson.
A crowd of Towson supporters, including Councilmen Julian Jones and David Marks, Delegate Steve Lafferty, Towson Chamber of Commerce Director Nancy Hafford and County officials, looked on as the County Executive operated a hydraulic hammer on a large backhoe to take out a section of the stone fountain in the plaza's center.
The $5.5 million renovation project will remove nearly two acres of impervious concrete from the existing plaza, between the Historic Courthouse and Circuit Courthouse buildings and replace it with 1.8 acres of attractive green space with new pavers, sidewalks, seating walls, lighting and furnishings. The park will better showcase the existing memorials dedicated to fallen police and fire fighters.
"Towson is evolving into more of a 21st century vibrant urban center and beautiful public spaces are an important element in offering that lifestyle for people," said Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz. "Our courthouse gardens have long offered a convenient place to take a break and enjoy nature, right in the heart of downtown Towson, and this new green space on the opposite side of the Historic Courthouse will offer a welcoming venue for people to gather during the week and for special events. We thank our community and civic leaders who gave helpful feedback that contributed to this design."
The new green space will replace an impervious concrete and paver courtyard centered by a fountain that has not functioned for several years. Leaks in the fountain's infrastructure require immediate reconstruction of a significant portion of the plaza. Repairs must take place on a tight time frame to avoid additional costly damage to office spaces and technology systems located below the plaza.
The County consulted with the Towson Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Towson Council of Community Associations (GTCCA) and representatives of the fire and police unions and memorial associations to gather input on the design. The design was developed by Rubeling & Associates, a Towson architectural firm. The general contractor is Northpoint Builders and the civil engineering firm is JMT.
"This will be a welcome transformation and a complement to some of the other "green" efforts in town," said Nancy Hafford, Executive Director of the Towson Chamber of Commerce. "This beautiful new space will expand the possibilities for great public events and gatherings."
"I was pleased to be asked for my input on the park design, and I think the final result will be very attractive with the dramatic shift from hardscaping to green space," said Paul Hartman, a member of the Greater Towson Council of Community Associations.
"The improvements to Patriot Plaza will make the Baltimore County Police Memorial more visible and accessible, while ensuring that the monument continues to provide a solemn tribute to officers who made the ultimate sacrifice," said retired Colonel Dennis Robinson, Chair of the Baltimore County Police Memorial Fund. "I want to thank the County Executive and his team for their thoughtful consideration of our recommendations."
Retired Fire Chief Elwood Banister added, "Anything that we can do to educate more people about our tribute to our fallen fire fighters is greatly appreciated. I find this new design very respectful of our monument."
Funds for the $5.5 million project were approved by the County Council in the FY2017 operating budget. The new green plaza is expected to be completed in June 2018.
Baltimore County has spent more than $57 million on open space and recreational projects since 2010. "We are committed to enhancing the quality of life in our County by providing attractive open space and community gathering places," concluded Kamenetz.


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Talbot had received a dentistry degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872 and a medical degree from Rush Medical School in 1880. By 1896 he had written three books:
- Irregularities of the teeth and their treatment. (1888)
- A study of the degeneracy of the jaws of the human race. (1892)
- The etiology of osseus deformities of the head, face, jaws and teeth. (1894)
Deformities and degeneracy, dental and otherwise, seemed to be of keen interest to him. He would soon branch out into being an expert in moral degeneracy and criminal behavior. In 1898 he authored, Degeneracy; its causes, signs and results, and, in 1905, Developmental pathology: a study in degenerative evolution.
The article is presented below. I have lightly annotated it to clear up errors in Holmes biography. The work is mostly dry with occasional bizarre archaic references and some lack of clarity. He describes Holmes as having the most degenerate anatomy that Talbot had ever seen over twenty years but then goes on to say "Holmes was certainly a degenerate physically, as the numerous stigmata he bore proved, but he was not more of one than many moral men and good citizens."
I have highlighted the more remarkable findings.
H.H. Holmes.
by Eugene S. Talbot, M.D., D.D.S.
Fellow of the Chicago Academy of Medicine
JAMA, August 1, 1896, Volume 25: pp. 253-7.
That Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. Holmes, was a criminal par excellence is beyond doubt, but how far and in what respects he was a degenerate, in the accepted sense of the term, is worthy of serious consideration.
Few criminals have received more public attention, but despite this, many essential details of his history are wanting. Very little has been stated as to his heredity. He claims to have come from respectable New England stock and to have been religiously and carefully brought up. As a boy he does not appear to have been a scapegrace, and no criminal charge is there on record against him. He married at 18 or 20 [Note: correctly at 17] and commenced the study of medicine at Burlington, Vt. From there he went to the University of Michigan, where he claims to have graduated in medicine in 1884.
According to his own account, after graduating he taught school and practiced medicine in New Jersey for about a year, but it would appear that before this he had already, with a confederate, conspired to defraud life insurance companies, an industry he never entirely abandoned and which finally brought him to the gallows. [Note: some newspaper accounts incorrectly place Holmes in Mooer's Fork, New Jersey shortly after graduation. Other accounts rightly point out that Mooer's Fork is located in northern New York.]
Just when he assumed the name of H.H. Holmes is not certain, but probably not long after this. He himself says it was done when he went before the Illinois Pharmacy Board in 1886. From that time he has been known by that name and under it started in business as a druggist in the outskirts of Chicago, where he went into rather extensive and complicated transaction, chiefly of a crooked character. He managed, however, to keep in fair standing with his neighbors, and at one time was actively interested in church and religious matters.
During this time he had abandoned his New Hampshire wife and child and without divorce, married in 1887 a Miss Belknap. Some years later in the same way he married a Miss Yoke in Denver under the name Henry Mansfield Howard. He is supposed also to have contracted another bigamous marriage with Minnie Williams (one of his supposed victims). Besides these he had irregular relations with other women. In 1894, shortly before his final arrest for the murder of Pitzel [Note: correctly, Pitezel], he revisited his old home and lived as husband for a few days with his first wife, to whom he told a romantic fiction anent his absence.
Between 1886 and 1894 there is no full account of his doings. They included an extensive series of swindles and forgeries. His transactions covered many parts of the country. He ranged from Canada to Texas and Colorado, often in trouble but generally managing in some way to escape the most serious consequences of his crimes. These were in their way often remarkable for their boldness and impudence. He negotiated for the sale to a gas company of a gas-making machine which was actually running on gas stolen from the company's own mains. He admits "deals of a somewhat similar nature."
While his confessions, generally, have been unreliable, it is probable that the above is safely inside the truth. He was emphatically a man of affairs, but his business transactions were so shady in their nature that the obscurity that enveloped them has been dispersed as yet only to give a glimpse such as the above.
It was during this period that he built his celebrated castle, with its secret chambers and passages, dark rooms, trapdoors, etc. Here he employed the female type-writers and other employees whose mysterious disappearance has done so much to make his popular reputation as a murderer. As far as this crime is concerned it must be admitted that the evidence against him is altogether circumstantial, his confessions and statements being notoriously and boastfully mendacious, in the main. Out of the twenty-seven murders he admitted in his latest confession shortly before his execution, the majority of the victims are still living. [Note: several, not the majority] Even his dying admission that he had been responsible for the sacrifice of two lives from criminal operations can not be accepted as perfectly reliable, considering his character for untruthfulness. He seems to have had little or no regard for human life, and as a dealer in "stiffs" and a defrauder of life insurance companies his operations were often enough suggestive of murders, even if these were not often committed.
The history of the Pitzel case, where it appears he made away with his confederate and then later three of his children, and seemed to be planning the deaths of the widow and remaining family, distributing the deaths about the country in such a way as to avoid suspicion, must be fresh in the mind of the reader.
Holmes in his personal appearance, like [English forger and swindler Thomas] Wainwright (whom he much resembled in his criminal career), presented nothing specially repulsive in his appearance. He was quiet, mild in manner and voice, fairly well educated, neat in dress and could pass anywhere for a respectable business or professional man. During his long criminal career he appears to have had no particular ambition, except to succeed in his crooked operations and to ingratiate himself with women for whom he seems to have had a more than normal inclination.
Mentally, there was no lack of acuteness. The fact that he managed to escape justice so long is an evidence of this. When he was finally arrested his behavior was peculiar and shifty. He told contradictory stories, and when his case came to trial he dismissed his lawyers and insisted on managing his own defense. Though he showed some aptness in examining witnesses, he was finally obliged to recall his counsel and give the case into his hands. The jury found him guilty almost without leaving the box. Perhaps the one witness whose testimony was the most convincing was his latest bigamous wife.
Holmes made numerous statements and confessions to detectives and others and published a book while awaiting trial which purports to give an account of his life.
The most remarkable of these confessions, however, was that published in the Philadelphia Inquirer of April 12, three or four weeks prior to his execution. In this he reports the details of twenty-seven murders and claims that he was a case of acquired moral idiocy; that he presented numerous facial stigmata of degeneracy that had grown upon him, during his criminal career. Eighteen of the twenty-seven victims in this confession are living. [Note: This tally of the living is incorrect. A better tally is difficult to undertake, several of the supposed victims had no names or else were not located.] Its author acknowledged its falsity within a day or two of its appearance.
It was not merely criminal vanity that prompted it, for he received for it a very substantial compensation of several thousand dollars. Throughout his imprisonment, his acquisitiveness was shown in this and other publications for which he received money, and in propositions of blackmail for persons he contemplated involving in these confessions.
While in Philadelphia, Jan. 30, 1896, I had the opportunity of making a careful physical examination of H.H. Holmes with the following results:
The subject was a 35 year old American, 5 feet 7 1/2 inches in height, weighing 150 pounds. The occiput was asymmetrical and prominent, the bregma sunken and the left side of the forehead was more prominent than the right which was sloping. The hair was brown, and on body and face excessive. The face was arrested in development. [?] The zygoma was arrested and hollowed on the right side.
The pictures of Holmes published in the daily papers and in his book, do not, to my mind, portray the features of the man as I saw him in his cell. Figure 1, comes the nearest as he appeared when I saw him. His face was cleanly shaven, except moustache, very thin and much emaciated, presenting the appearance of being in a decline, due perhaps to confinement and a tendency to consumption. He had a cough, and the chances are if he had been allowed to remain in confinement he would have succumbed to tuberculosis.
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Figures 2 and 3 show the antero-posterior and lateral shape of head. The right ear was lower than the left. The nose was long and very thin; stenosis of nasal bone very marked. The septum deflected to left, nose to the right. The thyroid gland was arrested. Strabismus in the left eye, inherited. The left higher than the right. Slight protruding of the upper jaw; arrest of lower. The mouth on the left side drops lower than on the right. The width, outside of first molars was 2. Width outside first bicuspids 1.62. Height of vault, 63.
Figures 4 and 5 upper and lower jaw. The alveolar process was normal with the exception of the process about the second molar on the right side which was hypertrophied. The teeth were normal in size and shape, the third molar undeveloped.
|Figures 4 and 5
Marked pigeon breast, left side more prominent than right. Chest arrested with tendency to tuberculosis.
Arms: Right normal. Left one and one-half inches longer. He was right handed. His legs were long and thin. The tibia flattened. The feet medium in size but markedly deformed. Depression on left side of skull at bregma, said to be due fall of brick at age of 30. Sexual organs unusually small.
The jaws were unusually long as compared with the width, with a semi-saddle arch on the left side of the upper jaw. The molars of the lower jaw and left upper had been extracted in early life. The hypertrophy of the alveolar process, the want of development of the third molars and the general abnormal development certainly display a very unstable nervous system in his early life.
In twenty years' experience, I have never observed a more degenerate being from a physical standpoint. Holmes in his confession published [sic], stated that ten years ago he was examined by four men of marked ability and by them pronounced mentally and physically normal and healthy. "Today, I have every attribute of a degenerate, a moral idiot." Is it possible that the crimes, instead of being the result of these abnormal conditions are, in themselves, the occasion of degeneracy? . . . within the past few months these defects have increased with startling rapidity; as is made known to me by each succeeding examination," etc.
Holmes was examined ten years ago, not to ascertain stigmata but for life insurance, and the Bertillon system was not used at all since only criminals are thus examined, for identification. When these examinations are made, only one arm, finger and part of the body are measured, and not both sides for comparison.
While I was making my examination, I called his attention to a number of deformities which he was not aware he possessed.
Being a medically educated man, he certainly should have been better acquainted with these malformations, but he had evidently given this subject little attention since he was ignorant of the cause of two most marked deformities: The too deep depression in the left front and occipital region of the head. These he claimed were due a brick falling upon him at the age of 30. The marked deformity of the chest walls he claimed to be due to pneumonia.
Both deformities were stigmata of degeneracy. Holmes, since his confinement, had no doubt lost flesh, which made these deformities appear more prominent. That they had developed as a result of his criminal tendencies is perfectly absurd. They must have developed with the osseous system, which would be complete by the 26th year; nor will acromegaly account for them.
Holmes had been called an extraordinary criminal, but he certainly was no more of a criminal than Wainwright, who was well known in his time as an essayist and better as a forger and murderer. From the standpoint of literary and artistic culture Wainwright stood higher than Holmes. Like Holmes, he attempted to defraud insurance companies and there is no doubt he poisoned a girl for this purpose. Holmes habitual criminality was modified by his education and antecedents. He had sufficient ability and self-control to successfully pass for a respectable citizen and to keep his criminal transactions so distributed as to territory and covered that only the self-interested perseverance of a life insurance company prompted by a hint from an ex-prison acquaintance could reveal them. His mental defects, so far as they existed, seem to have been confined to his moral sensibilities. He apparently had none of that sense of moral dictation which is a part of the constitution of every normal individual. He acted entirely as an egotist, perfectly capable of appreciating the possible immediate consequences of his acts and more than ordinarily expert in managing in one way or another in avoiding them, but utterly lacking in even the utilitarianism commonly expressed in the old adage that honesty is the best policy. While the murders have mainly created his popular reputation, they were but incidents in his consistent criminal career. He had no regard for others' rights or lives. Doing away with a mistress or a confederate when she or he became inconvenient was an easy matter to him. His education, his dissecting-room training and subsequent specialty helped to remove original superstitious fears that might restrain the average criminal. He seems to have been utterly lacking in any lasting or sincere affection or attachment. A man who could deliberately desert successively two wives with their children would be capable of abandoning others whose relations were less reliable.
[English criminologist] Havelock Ellis remarks that whatever refinement or tenderness of feeling criminals attain to reveals itself in what we should call sentiment or sentimentality. One of the characteristics of Wainwright's essay is their sentimentality. Himself, when in prison, he described as the possessor of "a soul whose nutriment is love, its offspring art; music, divine song and still holier philosophy." This sentimentality cropped up in Holmes in the letters to his first wife whose pathetic nature so impressed his counsel. It was also shown in his successes with women.
His crimes were apparently all deliberate and cold-blooded. In his arrangement of his building, "The Castle," he made provisions for various kinds of crooked work. Only in this way can be reasonably explained this seemingly crazy piece of architecture. There is no evidence in his record that Holmes was insane in any way except it be morally.
In his apparent disregard for human life he was less peculiar than would at first sight seem. When a man has an object in view, which to him is a supreme motive, nothing will stand in his way. Holmes had no regard for the law if he could avoid its punishments, no conscientious scruples to govern his conduct. The taking of life was no more to him than to the Sultan of Turkey, a hanging judge or a military commander, who will sacrifice forlorn hope to gain an advantage. It is not so improbable, therefore, that he may have been a more or less wholesale murderer if he found people in his way. He may have disposed of his victims and regarded it only as an inconvenient necessity. There is nothing in his character to make this intrinsically improbable.
Holmes was certainly a degenerate physically, as the numerous stigmata he bore proved, but he was not more of one than many moral men and good citizens. There was, with the defects, undoubtedly a certain defectiveness and want of balance of the nervous system, but it can not be said that this necessitated the career he chose. If he were a "born criminal" it was not evident till after he had passed his minority and his moral imbecility did not apparently reveal itself to any very striking extent during his boyhood. He followed the course of many young men, who, on leaving the associations and restraints of home fall into evil courses, only he went farther and under pressure, it may be of want and misfortune, adopted to the fullest extent the anti-social and aberrant career of a criminal. There was, possibly, always a certain defect in his moral constitution which was checked in its effects by the restraints and training of his earlier years and might have been overcome entirely had his will been directed into proper paths. His case seems to be largely if not altogether one of acquired moral obtuseness, not of complete congenital moral insanity. How far he was handicapped morally by his constitution, is a question that can not be decided absolutely, but probably not more than the average criminal, who is generally of a more or less degenerate type.
It has been assumed that his vanity and egotism were excessive and evidence of his abnormal mental constitution. First, however, it ought to be proven that these existed to any such extent as is inferred. This can not well be done from his history. He was not obtrusive in his manner and his very choice of life made it impolitic, to say the least, to such publicity, and in his way he was very politic. He had ample confidence in himself, as was shown by his attempting his own defense. This may be taken as evidence of egotism, but he can hardly be said to have been obtrusively egotistic. His numerous statements in regard to himself were apparently not so much prompted by vanity as by a desire to make a profit from them. This was especially true of his last noted confession, which was one of the best remunerated productions of fiction based on fact that has been brought out in the country.
There was certainly one striking psychologic peculiarity about the man; lying seemed to come naturally to him. He did it sometimes apparently without object. In this, however, he was not altogether unique, but there are marked examples, never in their acts passing over the line of legality.
Summing up the character of Holmes, we would say that he was, first of all, a swindler, a chevalier d'industrie and a roue. Money and women seemed to be his objects in life, especially the former, and he was perfectly unscrupulous in his methods of gratifying his ruling passions. His professional and general education, which he seems never after the first failure to have attempted to utilize properly, only served to make him the more dangerous and probably aided to make him the murderer as well as a seducer, bigamist, forger and thief. He may have had some congenital deficiency in his moral make-up, but the absolute lack of moral dictation of his later life, was due to or greatly aggravated by his self-chosen environments.
Nikola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Henry H. Holmes are all characters in my thriller, A Predator's Game.
A Predator's Game is available in soft-cover and ebook through Amazon and other online retailers.
A Predator's Game, now available, Rook's Page Publishing.
Back page blurb.
Manhattan, 1896.
When the author Arthur Conan Doyle meets Nikola Tesla he finds a tall, thin genius with a photographic memory and a keen eye, and recognizes in the eccentric inventor the embodiment of his creation, Sherlock. Together, they team up to take on an "evil Holmes." Multi-murderer Dr. Henry H. Holmes has escaped execution and is unleashing a reign of terror upon the metropolis. Set in the late nineteenth century in a world of modern marvels, danger and invention, Conan Doyle and Tesla engage the madman in a deadly game of wits.
Martin Hill Ortiz, also writing under the name, Martin Hill, is the author of A Predatory Mind. Its sequel, set in 1890s Manhattan and titled A Predator's Game, features Nikola Tesla as detective.


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September 2017
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More Than 43 Thousand New Civil Aircraft Will be Sold Until 2037. UAC estimates the total cost of deliveries to surpass US$6 trillion
UAC's Annual Report has won the Moscow Exchange Annual Report Competition
Shares of PJSC UAC are included in the program of Moscow exchange IIM Market for supporting liquidity
UAC's aircraft are coming to the Singapore Air Show 2016 international exhibition. The Asia-Pacific region's market is among UAC's top priorities – the Corporation will present a large lineup of its military and civil products. UAC's exhibition stand will feature models of the Su-35, Su-32, Su-30SM, Yak-130, Yak-152 and Be-200 aircraft, as well as models of SSJ100 and MC-21 civil liners. For the first time in the Asia-Pacific UAC will present the MC-21 pilot trainer simulator. Show visitors will be able to take a personal look at the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ 100) aircraft in the Yakutia airline livery at the show's static display.
Markets of the Asia-Pacific region and China in particular are the fastest growing and perspective in the world. According to UAC's estimates, yearly passenger turnover growth in the region in the next 20 years will by 1.3% surpass the world's average. This in perspective will make the region the biggest recipient of new aircraft until 2030.
UAC's civil products presented at the show have great potential in the region. According to UAC's estimates SSJ aircraft might capture up to 15% of this region's market. Sales till 2030 can surpass 150 aircraft.
UAC will specifically present its civil SSJ100 and MC-21 programs at the show. This will allow the airlines in person to witness the advantages of these liners – comfort, reliability, cabin ergonomics and other features of new Russian aircraft.
UAC holds leading positions on the region's military aviation market. More than 400 Su and MiG aircraft have been delivered to Asia-Pacific customers. Su-30 family fighters were chosen as main military aircraft by Air Forces of several countries of the region. UAC will present its main fighters at the show – Su-35 and the Su-30SM multipurpose fighters that by capabilities surpass all tactical 4 and 4+ generation fighters.
Yak-130 jet combat trainer aircraft allows pilots to receive modern training to fly 4+ and 5 generation fighters and is ideally suitable for the air forces of a number of the region's countries. For the first time the model of a Yak-152 piston basic trainer aircraft will be presented. This aircraft together with the Yak-130 and other modern training means allows to organize full cycle of fighter pilot training.
Two Russian Be-200ES amphibious aircraft have arrived in Turkey and from June 16 will begin work on supressing the spread of forest wildfires in the Republic of Turkey.
The works upon building up the long-haul widebody IL-96-400M aircraft are carried on at the final assembly shop on VASO aviation plant in Voronezh.
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) forges corporate and business processes to form the Commercial Aviation Division. In accordance with the decision of the UAC' Board of Directors, JSC «Sukhoi Civil Aircraft» and LLC «UAC – Integration center» will join the PJSC «Irkut Corporation» as branches.


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April 29, 2019
Labour's national executive to vote on second referendum
The main focus in the Brexit saga this week is tomorrow's scheduled vote in Labour's national executive committee on whether to back a second referendum in the campaign for the European elections. We noted a couple of news reports suggesting that the NEC might support Jeremy Corbyn's line against an automatic second referendum. The Guardian even reported that Labour was on the brink of backing a compromise agreement with Theresa May - without the need for a second referendum.
It is impossible to ascertain any probabilities from these reports. In our experience every push in one direction creates an almost equal offsetting counter-pressure in the other. After Robert Peston reported that Labour's NEC was likely to back Corbyn's position, one of the trade unions apparently switched support in favour of a second referendum. Corbyn has a solid majority on the committee, but Brexit is splitting Labour just as it is splitting the Tories.
Why does this vote matter, considering that the MEPs have no powers here? The answer is that the vote will set Labour's position on this issue going forward. Second referendum campaigners hope to turn the European election into a proxy referendum on Brexit itself. We are not sure that this will succeed. The latest YouGov opinion poll has the Brexit Party at 28% in the lead, followed by Labour's 22%, the Tories at 13%, and the Greens at 10%. The LibDems, Change UK, and UKIP are now all under 10%.
At tomorrow's NEC meeting, Jeremy Corbyn is said to favour a compromise that will keep the second referendum on the table, but one that will not bind the leadership if it agrees a deal. One of the union leaders reportedly told Corbyn to cut a deal with the Tories. Given the Tories's virtual extinction in the opinion polls, we think that Theresa May too, has a strong incentive to cut a deal.
The Guardian quoted Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary who is close to Corbyn, as saying that the first goal of the Labour Party is to get its own Brexit proposal adopted. Long-Bailey is more optimistic on the talks than others - noting that the talks have gone into a lot of detail, especially on the issue of workers' rights.
In his Guardian column, Will Hutton makes the point that tomorrow's vote in the NEC will settle the future of the Labour Party - whether it will continue to temporise over Europe, as he put it, or whether it takes a strong stance against English nationalism. He writes that Labour has reached the moment where this issue can no longer be fudged. Corbyn himself was not on the extreme end of the scale - he recognises that he cannot lose touch with a majority of his supporters. But it is the people who are closest to him, his inner circle, who are fighting for Labour to keep its current position of ambiguity.
The FT, meanwhile, has a story confirming something we have long suspected. May wants EU students to pay the full non-EU university fees from 2021/2022 onwards. This is about three to four times as high as the fees charged to UK and EU students currently. This would effectively put the UK university system outside the financial ability of all - except the richest - EU students. We think this was one of the more predictable consequences of Brexit, like separate passport queues for UK and non-UK citizens. Despite the agreement on citizens' rights, there is no way to prevent such discrimination in the long run.
We are also certain that any negotiation on a customs union will ultimately touch on these issues. We are aware that the EU is not insisting on freedom of movement as a prerequisite for agreeing a customs union, but we believe it will politically difficult for the EU to agree while the UK discriminates against EU citizens.


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The heart line (also called love line) is one of the three major lines in palm reading. It's just above the head line starting from the edge of the palm under the little finger, running across the palm and ending below the middle finger or forefinger or the place where they join. The heart line usually shows a person's attitude to love and quality of love. It tell about you have a deep affection or not, your emotion is complicated or simple.
What's a Good Heart Line
In general, if your heart line is deep, clear, curved, unbroken, not mixed or disorderly and extends to the forefinger or between the forefinger and middle finger, you have a good love life and emotion. If there are two or three forks at the end, it's much better. It shows you are responsible, good - hearted, friendship weight and popular among friends.
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For Short Love Line
If your heart line is short (only extends to the middle finger) or absent, it shows you are self-centered, ruthless, narrow-minded and like to act arbitrarily without thinking about the consequences. Thus, you are easy to be ostracized by the people around and become lonely. For your love life, it's also not smooth.
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If your heart line is very long which extends to the edge of the palm from both side (as in the picture shows), it indicates you are too straightforward, would rather break than bend. In career, you could get success although you undergo a lot of hardships. Only if your career line is clear without broken, you are fit to engage in speculation. In love aspect, the man is usually romantic and henpecked. The women are mostly faithful to their love. However, you usually have some major upheavals during the life. Once split up with boy/girl friend, or marriage breaks down, you will get hurt seriously.
For Ending at the Mount of Jupiter Love Line
As the picture shows, if your heart line extends to the Mount of Jupiter which is located below the forefinger. It indicates abundance of love, great dreams and high expectations.
For Ending Between the Mount of Jupiter and Saturn Love Line
If your heart line ends below where the Mount of Jupiter (below the forefinger) joins the Mount of Saturn (below the middle finger), it indicates the purely true love.
For Curved Love Line
● If your heart line curves upwards, it indicates you have a great verbal dexterity. When meeting your favorite object, you are good at creating romantic atmosphere and speaking out your love to him/her;
● Owning a downward curved line, it indicates a negative and weak character. You usually give others an uneasy feeling because you don't dare to chase and express your love feelings. So, there are twists and turns with your love relationship or marriage life
For Straight Love Line
A straight heart line shows you are stable, conservative, mild, extremely affable and approachable. In love, you are usually shy and play a passive role in the relationship. If the line is clear, moderate in length and without donut of break, you could have a stable and harmonious family.
Age of heart line
Draw vertical lines from the center of the base of each finger (except the thumb) to the heart line and get the ages at the intersection points as the image shows.
The intersection point of the fate line and heart line indicates the age of 55.
Please note the ages on the heart line don't indicate accurate ages. They are approximate ones.
If there is any special mark around the age as indicated, it shows your emotion condition during that period.
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Since God is Love and the only power, then man, all men and women, must be the expression of God, good. Jesus taught us to bless our enemies, to love them.
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Norfolk woman 'too young' for cancer screening
PUBLISHED: 14:00 21 January 2010 | UPDATED: 07:37 02 July 2010
A 24-year-old Norfolk woman who has suffered agonising pains for almost a year has been denied cervical screening because she is just a few months under the age limit for a test.
A 24-year-old Norfolk woman who has suffered agonising pains for almost a year has been denied cervical screening because she is just a few months under the age limit for a test.
The situation has highlighted the rules governing NHS screening processes, which mean women cannot be given a the test unless they are over the age of 25.
The woman has been going to her GP for the past eight months with lower stomach cramps, but she cannot take a cervical sample test (previously called smear tests) - which detect abnormal cells that can lead to cancer and infertility - because she has not reached the official screening age.
The woman, who is so distressed by her predicament she did not want to be named, said she now does not know "which way to turn".
She said: "I started getting stomach pains about eight months ago and thought at first it might be the side effects of my birth control pill.
"Then I started to bleed in between my periods so I went to a family planning clinic where I had a test for chlamydia and other tests, but they all came back negative.
"I was told a test might help but I am not yet 25, even though I am only a few months off, so I have to wait. I am really worried I could have cervical cancer, but there is no way of me finding out because of my age."
The woman, who takes painkillers every day for her pain, said she was told by a doctor at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital that she should have a test, but her GP is still not recommending she have one.
NHS Norfolk is the commissioning trust responsible for cervical screening and the simple tests are usually carried out at GP surgeries and health centres.
The woman contacted the Evening News after seeing how NHS Norfolk hailed a "cervical screening success" in which thousands of women are getting their results from cervical screening faster than ever thanks to a successful pilot scheme.
She said: "It is great that women who fall into the right category for screening are getting results faster, but there must be hundreds more like me who just fall out of that age bracket. A test would help me get treatment as soon as possible or at least eliminate anything serious. My partner and I are very angry at this absurd and inflexible NHS policy which."
North Norfolk MP and Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb said: "The rules to do seem particularly bureaucratic and strict. The patient should be getting every test possible to establish the cause of the problem."
There was a surge for cervical smear tests in the county last year following the death of reality TV star Jade Goody. It is believed the Big Brother star's high profile fight with cervical cancer has led to an increase of at least 5pc in the number of people getting the vital tests in Norfolk.
Fiona Kelly, NHS Norfolk's Screening Programme Lead, said: "When we invite women to attend clinics for cervical screening, we are approaching women who have no signs or symptoms of cervical illness or disease.
"It is of course important that any woman presenting to her clinician with related symptoms should receive pertinent information and appropriate treatment. If necessary, it is likely that the patient will be referred to a colposcopist or gynaecologist for further examination and diagnosis.
"It is not appropriate to take a sample from a woman under the age of 25 years unless a gynaecologist instructs this."
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It's been nearly 50 years since South St. Paul played in the state baseball tournament.
Discussion of the game's heartbreaking final play might be discussed for the next half-century.
Jaden Domeier's sacrifice fly in the ninth inning lifted New Ulm past South St. Paul 5-4 Thursday in the Class 3A state baseball tournament at Siebert Field.
Owen Ramirez had two RBI and Nathan Brandecker, Nick Friedges and Brandon Reynolds two hits each for South St. Paul (14-10), whose lone previous tournament appearance was 1969.
"The best thing is we put our program on the map as a program to respect," said coach Dan Cosgrove. "South St. Paul has been a hockey town, now a football town, so the big thing is getting baseball to the point where 'That's a good ball club.'"
New Ulm will face Rocori in Friday's semifinal; South St. Paul will face Red Wing in the consolation round.
With one out and the bases loaded, Connor Sadowski caught Domeier's fly ball in short right and fired home to Jose Rodgers-Valdez, who said he bobbled the ball, but argued Ranweiler never reached the plate. Ranweiler said he touched the plate after the bobble.
"It was one of those bang-bang plays at the plate. I think it's one of those calls that could go either way and they got it this time," Cosgrove said. "That's baseball. It's two tough teams going at it. One way it was going to hurt."
Ben Smith allowed four hits and struck out eight in five innings for the unseeded Packers, but was forced into too many deep counts. Timmy Smith allowed three hits in 4 1-3 innings of relief.
Both cannot pitch Friday due to pitch counts, but Tommy Schwandt, who threw a complete game shutout May 21, and Brandecker, the team's closer most of the year, will be available.
The Packers left 15 men on base, including the bases loaded three times. Third-seeded New Ulm (21-3) left 10.
"Throughout the section playoffs we always had someone step up in that situation and drive in two, sometimes three and kind of put the game a little more out of reach," Cosgrove said.
"I think it was just a situation where everyone was just nervous," said Brandecker, the Metro East Player of the Year. He doubled to the left-field wall in the sixth and scored on a sacrifice fly from Ramirez to tie the game at 4.
Ramirez's bloop into short right field scored one run in the third for a 2-1 lead and Sadowski had an RBI double in the fifth to tie the game 3-3.
"I felt like everyone battled and tried their hardest," Brandecker said.
Reed Ruegemer singled with two outs in the eighth inning and second-seeded Rocori advanced with a 3-2 win in eight innings over unseeded Red Wing.
Brandon Gill tripled with two outs for Rocori (21-5) and Ruegemer lofted a fly ball to deep right-center. Battling a stiff wind, the Wingers' Tre Moore had the ball go in and out of his glove.
Seth Yeatman hit a two-run double in the seventh for Red Wing (14-10).


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