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CIC classrooms vary from large lecture rooms to smaller tutorial rooms; along with computer laboratories, as well as other learning support facilities it is ideal for students wanting to get the most out of their study experience.
CIC have computer labs and printing facilities on Levels 3, 4, 5 and 9. The computer lab on Level 4 is adjacent to the Library and Study Centre and is available at all times to students. The other labs are available to students when classes aren’t scheduled.
On Level 4 there is also a private study room; students are welcome to use this space for group study, PAL workshops or to meet with a student representative.
The CIC Student Lounge is located on Level 5 and is open from Monday to Friday 8.00am to 6.00pm. The CIC student lounge is a space where students can gather for social interaction, lunch, CIC events and celebrations. The Student Lounge has couches, tables, microwaves, free tea and coffee, a ping pong table and a foosball table for friendly competition.
Also on Level 5, students have free access to Student Services and on Level 3 free and confidential access to the counselling team, where they will find support services in counselling, pastoral care, advocacy support, adjustment to life in Melbourne and career assistance support. The student welfare and student services teams can assist you finding your way around the Campus and Melbourne.
The CIC Library is located on Level 4, and opening hours during Term are Monday to Thursday from 8.30am to 5.30pm and Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm.
Outside of Term, the library opening hours are Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm.
Students can borrow books, use the photocopier and the adjacent Study Centre for personal study.
CIC offers its students online access to academic journals and full-text articles, e-books, video courses etc.
EBSCO eBooks: business collection covering topics such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship.
ProQuest ebrary: business e-books covering topics such as accounting, business ethics, economic policy, capital markets, human resources, corporate culture, marketing, corporate finance, real estate and entrepreneurship.
EBSCO databases: full-text journals in all business disciplines and also including financial data, case studies, investment research/market research/industry reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses etc.
ProQuest databases: comprehensive coverage of the latest business, financial, management and trade information including full-text journal articles, trade articles, company information and analysis, market reports, industry reports and news.
Lynda.com: more than 3500 video tutorials by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills.


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A two-week, practice-oriented course on Multilevel Water Governance by the ‘Hague Academy for Local Governance’ will take place from 10 to 21 September 2018 at the Hague. The course will focus on addressing the challenges and opportunities of water governance. The course curriculum blends theory and practice along with expert exchanges and international case studies.
Participants will learn how to apply the five building blocks of water governance, and field visits will focus on private-public cooperation and key examples of Integrated Water Resource Management.
The deadline to apply is 30 July 2018. More information can be found on the course page.

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text: Last month’s Asset Allocation Survey special question asked AAII members what allocation changes they expect to make this year. Responses were mixed. Almost one out of three respondents (32%) do not plan to make any change or will simply rebalance their portfolios as needed. Slightly more than 19% intend to increase the amount of cash they hold, many in anticipation of hoping to buy stocks at a lower price. About 14% intend to boost their allocation to equities while a little under 14% say they will add more bonds or bond funds. Approximately 8% say they will hold more income-producing securities, be they dividend stocks, bonds or real-estate investment trusts (REITs). Several respondents say their intentions are dependent on how the stock market performs or what happens with interest rates.

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Yes, I thought much the same.
Spooky..... the trees were there at least 15 years before the railway, I must have seen into the future?
That certainly is great work Rod, you have put everything into this building, and the end result has repaid your efforts.
....and £1 for Philipy too..... could get expensive!

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New York might be one of the most culinarily diverse cities on the planet. But when it comes to heating FEMA meals, some folks need a lesson.
For non-English speakers, it’s not so easy to follow the directions that come on the packages and show how to operate the heaters. So guardsmen have been holding demonstrations to show folks how the heaters work, according to New York National Guard spokesman Eric Durr.
A guardsman in the photo above was demonstrating how to operate the heater for a group of volunteers in Chinatown, one of whom was filming an instructional video. Durr said such demonstrations were going on throughout the city in an effort to help New Yorkers living in neighborhoods still dark due to Superstorm Sandy.
The distribution site in the above photo serves two buildings, one that is 44 stories and the other 22 stories, with a combined population of more than 3,000. The demonstration, and the video, will help volunteers as they conduct daily health and wellness checks in the buildings, Durr said.

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Anne E. Neidhamer, 77, of Petoskey, Mich., and Sun City West, Ariz., died June 28, 2003, at Northern Michigan Hospital.
Anne was born March 7, 1926, in Detroit, the daughter of Patrick and Mary Ledwidge. She grew up in Beverly Hills and attended school at Shrine High School in Royal Oak. Then she went to college at Siena Heights to receive her BA. She got her master's in education at University of Michigan.
She taught kindergarten for 21 years in the Detroit area.
On July 10, 1971, she married Byron "Bud" Neidhamer in Beverly Hills, Mich. She raised three children, Lynn, Tom and Amy, in Boyne City and Petoskey.
She was an active member of St. Francis Church. She did volunteer work at Northern Michigan Hospital, Camp Daggett and the Arizona Food Bank.
She is survived by her husband, Bud, of Petoskey and Sun City West, Ariz.; and her children, Lynn and Scott Hall of Boyne City, Tom and Debbie of Boyne City, and Amy and Vince Guercio of Avon, Colo. Her grandchildren are Josh and Dylan Hall, Megan, Kate and Ellie Neidhamer, and TJ and Jill Guercio. She had one great-grandchild, Gwendolyn Hall. Also surviving are her brother and sister-in-law, Patrick and Rosemary Ledwidge, and their five children and grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Camp Daggett or St. Francis Church. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, with a Scripture service at 7:30 p.m., at Stone Funeral Home in Petoskey. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 2, at St. Francis Church with the Rev. Dennis Stilwell officiating.


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Andrew Wheeler and Nick Fontaine in The Best Laid Plans. Photo by David Cooper.
Terry Fallis’ 2008 political satire, The Best Laid Plans, makes the jump from the written page to the musical stage with the upcoming adaptation from Vancouver’s Patrick Street Productions and Touchstone Theatre. But more than simply a musical based on the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour winner, the play sees two of the novel’s original characters re-written as genderqueer.
Based on Terry Fallis’ award-winning satirical first novel, the story takes place in and around Ottawa during the run-up to a federal election. Daniel Addison, a speechwriter for the leader of the Liberal Opposition, is dropping out of politics for the relatively tame world of academe. Before Daniel can cast off politics once and for all, he’s given a Herculean task: find a Liberal candidate to run in an unassailable Conservative riding. Daniel convinces Angus McLintock, a crusty old Scot, to let his name stand in an election he’s sure to lose.
With the timing near perfect given the federal election currently underway, the musical adaptation of The Best Laid Plans is also uniquely Canadian.
You can read the entire interview with The Best Laid Plans author Terry Fallis, and its musical creator counterparts, Anton Lipovetsky and Benjamin Elliott on Vancouver Presents.
The Best Laid Plans: A Musical plays at the York Theatre (639 Commercial Dr) September 19 – October 3. Visit http://thecultch.com for tickets and information.

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Riffing on Ms. Daniel’s theme, I think that Elul offers us the opportunity to explore the boundaries of what might be our comfortable habits, and approach a God who is not always convenient, not always understanding, and not always willing to forgive us offhand. We might find ourselves standing in front of a God who is justifiably upset with our behavior – individually or collectively – and wants something more than a trite “sorry”. If/When we find ourselves in that position, our responses – both active and emotion – can tell us a lot about ourselves.
Spiritual but Not Religious? Please Stop Boring Me.


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Green powder coated 35w metal halide adjustable ground light. requires lamp.
Persius, Adjustable, ground recessed, 35w ( METAL HALIDE ) green powder coat, IP67, 36 degree beam, 20 degree tilt.
Recessed adjustable up lights combine a cool top lens, long lamp life and energy efficiency for up lighting trees from lawns or paving. Persius provides a powerful 36 degree up lighting beam, using a single-ended metal halide lamp, while maintaining a typical top lens temperature of under 70 degrees C - so Persius can be used even in walkover areas to up light trees with an open canopy and branch structure from directly below. The lamp and reflector assembly is mounted on an adjustable cradle so the beam can be tilted up to 20 degrees from vertical to achieve the desired effect. The dark grey non-reflective interior means less light refraction through the lens to give away its position in the landscape. Persius has an upper compartment with a separate top lens insulated by an inner second lens from heat generated in the lower compartment which houses the lamp and control gear. Persius has a green powder coated lens rim, a cast aluminium body and a polymer sleeve for recessing into the ground. A sandblasted brass top ring is available for discrete installation in paving, especially in heritage projects where stainless steel may look too modern.: green and black tops are also available. An 8mm thick black honeycomb glare louvre (E9500L) is also available as an accessory: this fits inside the top compartment over the lower lens to limit visibility of the light source in traffic or pedestrian areas. To facilitate removal of screws for future re lamping or other maintenance, apply copper grease to the threads of all screws being fitted for retention of bezels, grills or other top plates or retaining rings. Copper grease resists degradation due to heat and protects against difficulty in removing screws, particularly where stainless steel screws are fitted with aluminium parts. It may also be used on screw threads of screw-off bezels or glare shields. Ensure surplus is cleaned off with a solvent to prevent staining in use.
This direct burial in the ground fitting is pre-wired with rubber cable and 20mm IP68 gland for connection to mains supply via a separate underground joint kit (order T9969 separately). You will need to provide 300mm depth of shingle drainage below the uplight: do not use in waterlogged ground.
All recessed luminaries must have adequate drainage beneath each fitting to allow water to disperse, especially in clay based soil beds. All cable joint must be 100% watertight and there a number or waterproof transformer boxes and heat shrink cable joint kits on our web site to choose from. We would advise that all connections and transformer be kept above ground where possible as the weakest link in any exterior garden electrical installation is joining cables together.
If you feel that adequate drainage may be an issue then we would advise using a surface mounted spike light and keep all joints above ground. The Apollo range of light fittings has a choice of beam angles and glare shield options and can be found at the bottom of the surface ground lights section.
Please ensure that your electrician is NIC EIC certified and has done exterior lighting installations before.
35w single-ended ceramic type CDMT35 3000K metal halide lamp is recommended for purple/red/yellow/green foliage trees and combines long lamp life and colour stability. HQIT35K4 4000 degree K lamp gives cooler lighting effect suitable for trees with blue/grey foliage such as some pines & cedars. Order lamps separately.
Plastic waterproof enclosure with cable gland knock outs.

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Bus stops in half block from the office.
Stephen is a registered clinical counsellor with the BCACC and has a Master’s in Counselling Psychology. He has been practicing family therapy for 20 years, both in the non-profit sector and as a private practitioner. Stephen has supervised and administered a counselling clinic in Surrey providing clinical supervision and direction to students completing an internship for their Masters in Counselling Psychology. Stephen also does private practice work and employee assistance services as well as clinical supervision for other counsellors. He has extensive experience in individual and family counselling.
Stephen is fluent in Spanish and works with families from the Latin community. His clinical supervision and private practice experience means that he is always researching for effective ways to assist clients and students. His previous work has taught him the power of hope and confidence that people can understand and manage their issues.
Stephen practices a client-centered approach, and is an integrative therapist. He is trained in Family Systems Therapy as well as the Brief Therapy Modalities such as Narrative and Solution Focused approaches. He has trained as a trauma therapist in the ‘Clinical Interventions in Trauma” certificate program through the Justice Institute. He has completed a counselling certificate in Family Systems Theory through Pacific Coast Family Therapy Association. He has completed Gottmann’s Couple work Level 1 training and Emotionally Focused Therapy training for couples.
Stephen has also completed level 1 AEDP training with Diana Fosha and completed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy training with Dr.David Burns to assist with anxiety and depression issues. He incorporates mindfulness in his clinical work. He is able to work with clients in an integrated manner.
Stephen has an interest in men’s issues and he helped many men with emotion and anger management. He has helped couples work through difficult relationship issues such as intimacy and infidelity. He has helped many adolescents cope with anxiety and addiction and behavioural issues. He has helped parents with parenting issues, and individuals with depression, anxiety and grief issues. He also counsels couples through divorce and separation and co-parenting plans. Stephen also has also successfully provided substance misuse assessment and counselling to individuals. As well he has experience and expertise in with working with the family to resolve family issues.
You can contact Stephen regarding your concerns and issues. He can speak with you about a counselling plan and to see if he can be of assistance to you, your family or partner.He can also answer any questions you may have about counselling and how it can meet your needs.

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On July 17, David Bagley, who had been HSBC’s head of group compliance since 2002, resigned from his job in front of a US Senate subcommittee after it emerged the bank had exposed the United States to billions of dollars worth of money laundering, drug trafficking and terrorist financing. The US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee report claims a “pervasively polluted” culture at HSBC led the bank to act as financier to clients seeking to route shadowy funds from the world’s most dangerous and secretive corners.
Now that it has become public knowledge that HSBC, long known to some observers as a quintessential drug bank, was laundering money for the murderous Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, the bank cannot afford to keep Bagley any longer. A veteran in this business, HSBC is aware that such an expose is an occupational hazard. The way to deal with it is to sacrifice one or two top officers like Bagley, pay a slap-on-the-wrist fine, and then get back to business again. The money is too big, and the HSBC is too big a bank to fail for lack of real money.
In his final stance on behalf of the drug money ban, Bagley said a few things. In a written submission to the subcommittee, he said HSBC was in the process of “shedding the historical compliance model that the bank has outgrown,” whatever that means. He also revealed that the bank is to close 20,000 accounts in the Cayman Islands as result of the money laundering investigation. Bagley was told by the subcommittee that foreign HSBC banks avoided safeguards designed to block transactions involving terrorists, drug lords, and rogue regimes, while it also ignored links to terrorists, providing services to risky banks in Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh.
“The culture at HSBC was pervasively polluted for a long time,” said Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a congressional watchdog panel. The subcommittee pointed out that the US arm of HSBC (HBUS) treated HSBC Bank Mexico, which transported $7 billion (£4.5 billion) in cash in armored vehicles to it during 2007-2008, as a “low risk” client. In another case examined by the subcommittee, two HSBC affiliates sent nearly 25,000 transactions involving $19.4 billion (£12 billion) over seven years without disclosing their links to Iran.
The bank was also found to be clearing suspicious bulk travelers’ checks, including $290 million in “obviously suspicious” US travelers’ checks for a Japanese bank, benefiting Russians who claimed to be in the used car business. These are most likely penny ante revelations, deliberately put out to keep the level of fine on this too-big-to-fail bank at a minimum.
How did HSBC get in bed with the Mexican Sinaloa cartel? Well, therein lays a tale. No bank has been more closely connected with Mexican money laundering than Wachovia. Founded in 1879, Wachovia became the largest bank by assets in the southeastern United States by 1900. By 2008, Wachovia was the sixth-largest US lender, and it faced $26 billion in losses from subprime mortgage loans. That cost Wachovia Chief Executive Officer Kennedy Thompson his job in June 2008. Six months later, San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, which dates from 1852, bought Wachovia for $12.7 billion, becoming the fourth-largest bank in the United States.
As Wachovia’s balance sheet was bleeding, the US Justice Department was getting close to its drug money laundering venture. After a 22-month investigation, the Justice Department on March 12 charged Wachovia with violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to run an effective anti-money-laundering program. Five days later, Wells Fargo promised in a Miami federal courtroom to revamp its detection systems. Wachovia’s new owner paid $160 million in fines and penalties, less than 2 percent of its $12.3 billion profit in 2009.
Some observers point out that for laundering as much $378 billion over the years for the Sinaloa cartel, the $160 million fine ranks as a very minor business expense.
The report also said that it is not just Wells Fargo, either. What is more astounding is the lack of prosecution in this obviously systemic problem. Miami-based American Express Bank International paid fines in both 1994 and 2007 after admitting it had failed to spot and report drug dealers laundering money through its accounts. Drug traffickers used accounts at Bank of America in Oklahoma City to buy three planes that carried 10 tons of cocaine, according to Mexican court filings.
Every day, somewhere in this world, elected political officials are telling their citizens how important it is to keep the failing banks alive. The failing banks have made “mistakes,” the story goes, but to allow these banks to sink would cause “catastrophe.” Hence, all citizens, young and old, men, women and children should forego their right to a better future, embrace austerity and give the money to the banks that are too big to fail.
Volumes have been written about how the global criminal syndicate, otherwise known as the global financial system in its present form, used people’s money in the recent period the way the mafia uses illicitly-earned cash in gambling casinos. And how when the gamblers lost a whole lot, the world leaders moved in to take more public money to feed the casino-dwellers.
Almost every day one scam or the other, by one too-big-to-fail bank or the other, comes out in newspapers. The amount of money these banks gambled away and the amount of money governments of “developed” countries are pumping in to keep the gambling operations alive is inconceivable for ordinary individuals. They talk about trillions of dollars, making billions of dollars sound like small change.
But before the banks began gambling away people’s money, they were also engaged in laundering illegally-earned money deposited in cash in brown bags. As the looting process speeded up, the amount of illicit cash sloshing around increased multifold. For instance, the cash generated by the narcotics growers, controllers and petty peddlers are now generating almost a trillion dollars annually.
On July 16, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that organized criminal network funds are turning over annually an estimated amount of $870 billion, more than six times the amount of official development assistance. These immense illicit funds are comparable to the equivalent of 1.5% of global gross domestic product, or 7% of the world’s exports of merchandise. With an estimated value of $320 billion a year, drug trafficking is the most lucrative form of business for criminals, according to the study.
Again, these are highly conservative figures. Some other observers point out that the opium/ heroin/ cocaine/ hashish itself produce a trillion-dollar stash. To get an idea of this money, recall that India, a nation of 1.2 billion people, in recent years developed a national economy of $1 trillion. The international narcotics industry produces that amount every year.
With that kind money at stake, lives become cheap. The Mexican drug cartels have killed more than 30,000 people in order to stash away their booty with Wells Fargo, HSBC, Bank of America and many other lesser banks. Because of the money-led gunpowder of this industry, few speak out against it. Why get on the wrong side of the bankers and those who kill?
One exception, however, is Viktor Ivanov, head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS). Speaking to the Argentine Council of Foreign Relations in Buenos Aires on June 27, Ivanov called for joint action by the heads of state of nations affected by the dope plague to usher in a new financial system that would not promote drug money to keep the drug banks liquid and destroy millions of youths and others.
This new financial architecture, Ivanov declared, must replace the existing world monetary and financial system, which is the main cause for the spread of drug trafficking on a global scale, adding that the current system was built on the ruins of national economies, forcing them into backwardness by sucking out their resources and depriving them of the right to sovereign economic development.
Ivanov was fully aware that this huge drug money stash, produced year after year, and on which many of the too-big-to-fail banks depend, will not vanish as a result of regulatory measures or slap-on-the-wrist fines. That is why, in Buenos Aires, he addressed the larger issue, stating that this criminal syndicate can be put to bed only when a change in the current global financial architecture - in particular, a separation between commercial and investment banks for the defense of credit operations against speculative ones - is instituted.
“The first level is the creation of the infrastructure needed for organizing advanced agriculture, including the formation of stable markets, a low-interest credit system for peasants, technical and technology support for agriculture (scientific and industrial seed-farming, fertilizers, and agricultural machine-building), a system of teaching and training for agronomists and other agriculture professionals, as well as tough protectionist measures to defend peasants who are growing legal crops.
“The second level is the creation of conditions for employment diversification, in order to reduce the portion of families whose welfare directly depends on succeeding in agriculture; in particular, this means forming a national high-technology industrial sector into which the population can be drawn. An example is Malaysia, which has turned from a backward agrarian country into one of the leading high-technology countries in a few decades.


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A Home in the Country!
In the spring, you can witness a burst of flowers popping up after their winter slumber. In the summer, you can enjoy our flower gardens or simply just sitting under one of the many majestic trees on the property. In addition to the gorgeous outdoors, the Villa is elegantly decorated inside. We offer wonderful home cooked meals, a warm and caring staff, and a plethora of activities to keep you busy year-around. All of these qualities combined make the Villa not a facility but a home.

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If you have swollen gums, you probably have a gum infection. This is by far the most common cause of gum swellings. But it's important to realize that you don't "catch" a gum infection.
You can't get it from drinking out of someone elses cup, or by kissing. Diseases that are transmitted in that way do not normally result in a gum swelling, or else are very rare.
Swollen gums caused by a gum infection are triggered by an overgrowth of the bacteria living in the bacterial plaque between your teeth and just under the gum edges.
How do these bacteria grow out of control? These are bacteria that live in everyone's mouths. The problem starts when the bacterial plaque (dental plaque) is allowed to build up.
THIS HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE NOT REMOVED THE PLAQUE FROM YOUR TEETH ENOUGH. ie. You are not brushing and flossing enough to REMOVE the plaque that has collected between your teeth and under the gum edges.
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I SEE is that patients tell me they brush their teeth 4 times a day, but that their gums bleed and are swollen or sore. They think they have some sort of gum infection that they have caught from someone else. BUT what is actually happening here is that they are only brushing their teeth for 30 to 45 seconds each time, or less.
Unfortunately, this is WAY TOO SHORT a time for any brush (even ultrasonic) to get all the plaque off the teeth.
Just try timing yourself next time you brush. IT HAS TO BE 2 MINUTES PER QUARTER of your mouth. That's right, EIGHT (8) minutes for all your teeth! And if your gums bleed, don't stop. Carry on, GENTLY massaging the gum edges of EVERY tooth, inside and out! Do not scrub hard. Go slowly and gently FOR LONGER. It's that simple.
If you brush your teeth for this extended period, then you really only need to brush your teeth like this once a day. You can brush for a shorter period of time the other times each day.
If you have swollen gums, there will be one of THREE possible appearances. You will need to look very carefully. Open your mouth halfway, let your cheek relax, close your mouth a tiny bit, and pull your cheek to the side slightly with one finger. You will probably see one of 3 things.
Your gums are swollen generally at the front of your mouth, especially the lower front teeth.There may be small, slightly grey, "punched out" areas between the front teeth. If you look very carefully, you will see a thin line of white plaque at the gum edges.
OR, your gum might be swollen at the very back of your mouth, around the last tooth, making it difficult to close your teeth. This likely to be a wisdom tooth. The swollen gum is limited to just this one area of your mouth.
Or your gum is swollen in ONE area only, say between your upper front teeth. If you look closely, you might be able to see if it is swollen very close to the gum edge where the gum meets the tooth, OR if it is swollen away from the gum edge, more over where the roots of the tooth would be. The gum does not bleed.
Next, you should see if your gums bleed when you gently brush your teeth.
Finally, ask yourself - do you use dental floss at all? Like more than twice a week?
The answers to these questions will let you make an educated guess as to the cause of your swollen gums, and what you can do about it.
Like I said at the top of this page, pretty much ALL cases of swollen gums will be caused by dental plaque collecting at the gum edges. If your gums bleed when you use a toothbrush, and you don't ever floss your teeth, this is probably what's happened.
The cure for this is to get the plaque bacteria off your teeth! It's that simple. Just get rid of the plaque bacteria and things will settle down. But that's easier said then done. What can you do?
First, you need a top-quality mouthwash. You can rinse this around your mouth AND dip your toothbrush head in the mouthwash too! A great product is the TheraBreath Perio Therapy Oral Rinse. I like TheraBreath products. Have a look at the TheraBreath Oral Rinse on Amazon.
TheraBreath products are normally aimed at curing bad breath, BUT the oxygen levels in the mouthwash is great for ALL general gum infections!
Normally, I don't like mouthwashes because most of them don't do much, and they make people think they can brush less and floss less because they are using some fancy-pants mouthwash.
BUT this is a special case. This only works with TheraBreath Oral Rinse.
AND you are only going to use it for 14 days. That's right, only FOURTEEN days! Why so short?
Because 14 days is more than enough time for the mouthwash to do it's job.
The TheraBreath mouthwash will kill the bacteria causing the gum infection, and allow your swollen gums to heal up and shrink back to their normal size. But that's when the real work starts, if you want to prevent getting swollen gums again!
Now you have to change the way you brush your teeth. The old way obviously wasn't good enough, or else you wouldn't have got the problem in the first place.
If you live outside the U.S.A., then I recommend either the Oral B Sonic toothbrush, (also called the Pulsonic), OR, if money's no object, the top-of-the-line brush from Sonicare, the DiamondClean. You can read a review of these three brushes at my Best electric toothbrush review page.
Next, you have to use the brush correctly! I have written precise instructions on what to do at How to cure gum disease. Follow those instructions to the letter! I also explain how to floss between your teeth correctly.
If you use the TheraBreath mouthwash and change your brush (and how you use it), your swollen gums should shrink back down to their normal size and stay that way.
But I recommend getting a dentist to check your gums - you may also have a build-up of hard tartar on your teeth that a dental hygienist can gently remove for you. She can also check your toothbrushing, and show you where you might still be missing with the brush!
It's also important to use a good toothpaste that will help with gum problems. After the initial treatment as described above, I recommend switching to an aloe vera based toothgel for long-term use. You can read more about this, and place your order directly online HERE.
The next type of gum swelling is where you get a small, well-defined lump at the gum edge where it meets the tooth, or very close to it. This is usually caused by a gum infection under the gum, and it's a type of abscess.
For this, you should go along to a dentists' office. He will take an X-ray to confirm what's happening, and probably give you some tooth abscess antibiotics to settle the gum infection down. Then you will need to see the dental hygienist to get your gum checked and measured. If the tooth next to the swollen gum is very loose, you may need to have it removed.
It's also possible that your swollen gums are caused by a gum infection coming from a dead tooth. If this is the case, you will either need a root canal procedure or get the tooth pulled.
The final cause of swollen gums is where the swelling is at the very back of your mouth, behind the last tooth. It can be difficult to close your teeth together. This is probably down to wisdom teeth infection, a particular type of gum infection that occurs around a wisdom tooth.
Again, there's not much you can do at home about this, you really need to see a dentist. This situation also usually requires antibiotics at first, followed by a careful assessment of whether the gum infection is likely to come back again or not. If the tooth is tilted (or "impacted"), you may need to have it removed.
Hormonal changes, either during puberty, the female monthly cycle, or as part of aging.
Mouth ulcers. If you get a mouthful of ulcers come up, your gums may become swollen and bleed easily. This will settle down when the ulcers heal up.
Vitamin deficiency, in particular vitamin C. This is unusual these days, BUT can occur.
An allergic reaction, for example to a toothpaste or a food.
A dental filling that has become dislodged, and wedged between2 teeth.
Some mouth infections such as herpes or thrush can cause a gum swelling.
These are the most common causes of swollen gums that I see in my office. All these are due to a gum infection of one sort or another, but the source of the infection is different in each case, and so needs different treatment.


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DMX Released From Prison Friday Morning – But Must Pay $2.3m In Restitution!
Well look who’s out of lockdown … again. Why, it’s non-other than longtime repeat jailbird, DMX! Yep, the rapper whose government name is Earl Simmons, just got released from federal prison this morning.
We’re told his family was expected to pick him up. We’re also hearing that DMX’s first stop will be to spend time with his girlfriend, Desiree, and his son, Exodus.
Oh yeah, in case you also hadn’t heard, DMX is planning on dropping a new album and tackling some new movie projects, including a possible biopic!
Now the hard news for X. Now that his prison sentence is complete, dude has got to start forking over $2.3 million in restitution to Uncle Sam … and he also has to start outpatient programs for substance abuse and mental health.
One last thing. DMX’s original release date was supposed to be on Sunday, but it’s federal policy to release inmates early if their release date falls on a weekend.
DMX’s release from prison will be celebrated with an official Welcome Home Party at the Lotus Lounge in West Haven, Connecticut. The throwdown takes place Feb. 8. Tickets are available now for anyone 21 years of age and older.
The entire 1st paragraph of this story seems written by a jealous white boy with no talent. I thought this was BLACK America Web!!
The entire 1st paragraph of this story seems written by a jealous white boy with no talent.


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Wimbledon only started yesterday, but it's already seen a few big surprises! Rafael Nadal lost to Belgium's Steve Darcis (ranked 135th): 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (10-8), 6-4. Stanislas Wawrinka lost to Australia's Lleyton Hewitt: 6-4, 7-5, 6-3. And in women's singles, Maria Kirilenko lost to hometown-girl Britain's Laura Robson, 6-3, 6-4.
Check out USAToday's Wimbledon 2013: 10 things to know for some fun facts about this year's Major.

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FLORIDA DIVORCE RATES ON THE DECLINE?
As a Family Law Attorney, I deal with Divorces on a daily basis, and it is sometimes baffling to see the never ending surge of couples rushing to the court house, or to an attorney’s office, to get a divorce. It seems more people are getting divorced and refusing to get remarried after going through an ugly divorce including what can be an ugly fight over children and property. The studies in the past have shown an extremely high rate of divorce, coupled with a decrease in the amounts of new marriages, despite an ever increasing population. Does this mean the new norm is to remain single, or to not marry your significant other?
However, a new report from the Department of Health shows slightly more people got married last year as compared to the year before, ending what was a decade long decline. The actual number of marriages and the number of marriages as a percent have been falling for a decade, but the year of 2014 saw three tenths of a percentage increase in marriages in Florida. Another interesting statistic to note is that while marriages are increasing, the number of divorces is also falling. The vital statistics report for last year shows that there were 54 divorces for every one hundred marriages. Not since 1960 have there been a lower percentage of divorces when compared to population. Before that, the lowest rate was in the 1930’s.
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United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the United States Democratic Party.
Everything we hope to do, depends on an expanding economic pie. And only a vibrant, competitive, thriving private sector can create that. Government is a necessary partner, but it is the junior partner. Only the private sector can produce the revenues for the social programs that we Democrats care so much about. The financing of those programs through ever more public debt violates our generation responsibility.
Nobody on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."

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Well, this Thursday morning at the hideous hour of 4:30 I will be departing my home for the airport. I will fly with my good friend, Jen, to the beautiful not-currently-hurricaning state of Florida. I am headed to the Florida Parent-Educators Conference. Yes, I do live in glorious sunny California, but the California homeschool conventions just were not enough for me. HA! That is in jest, of course, but I am going to Florida anyway. Now in order to *get* to Florida, I have to fly there because it is a little late to start driving, and it is the quickest way to avoid the Midwest. (That was also in jest for you midwestians.) In reality, we are flying and it spooks me. So all this jesting is really to hide the fact that I am not comfortable dangling my life upwards of thousands of feet in the air. I know, I know, it is safer than cars, probably safer than walking, but it is still the fact that I am doing something SO out of the ordinary – and when I say out of the ordinary I mean it. I have not been on a plane in almost 15 years. Sooooo, it is just a little out of my comfort zone, you know?
I asked my dear husband if he ever feared flying. He said, “No, God is sovereign in this area just as much as others.” Hey, now don’t confuse me with the facts please! In reality, it is a blessing he said that to me. He understands the minute details of sovereignty in a way that I am missing. I could keel over in the back yard while gardening, I could go in my sleep, I could… well, you know, I just could, and it would be in His time. If I am on the plane and something happens then it is His time. God will care for those who are here – better than I can. It is hard to face these fears for me. It is hard not to have control over everything. There is great safety in my head when I think of being “in control.” But that is a farce too! When are we ever truly in complete control of anything? I am SO glad that God is truly in control – that His hand moves the world – that He is truly King of all. That means He is King of all - including airplanes! There is great comfort in that for me, and I will be praying that while we take off at ten past six on Thursday morning.
If you think of us, please pray that all will go well during the weekend. There is much to accomplish, fabulous people to meet, information to take in, and some relaxing to do. I have not been away from my entire family ever and this will be a big time first.
I'll be praying for you and Jen, Kate! Have you been to Florida before? If not, I hope you get to wade in the ocean - for us California girls, it is a trip! And to see the sunRISE over the ocean - pretty weird! Enjoy your grand adventure!!
Well, right now you are only 3 1/2 hours from me. Couldn't get to the convention this year, due to a nursing baby. Hope you have (had) fun and I'll be looking forward to hearing about it on yours and K-- blog.
This is my first time here. I live north of you, in Redding.
I was seriously contemplating flying to Va. for their conference next month in June. I've never been to a conference before. I checked out the ones in the Bay Area via CHEA's website but none of the speakers interested me. The ones in Va. REALLY did.


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Disney has set the dates for a slew of upcoming films, starting with Star Wars Episode IX which is slated to hit theatres on May 24th 2019.
Also hitting cinemas in 2019 is The Lion King live action remake on July 29th and the highly anticipated sequel to 2013’s Frozen which is due to release on November 27th.
Elsewhere, the next chapter in the Indiana Jones series has been pushed to July 2020, giving Steven Spielberg the time to finish work on other projects including Ready Player One.
2019 is looking to be packed year for the company with Lion King, Frozen 2 and Star Wars joining a new Avengers movie as well as Pixar’s Toy Story 4.


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Dad’s office had a salary freeze. Mom’s pissed she has to work part-time. They get home and smoke cartons of cigarettes. Watch the Wednesday night CBS lineup. Cough in unison. Lost in a cloud of smoke. Someday they’ll asphyxiate.
Mommy hates Daddy. I hate ’em both. Mommy and Daddy, and Sis. My sister loves my Daddy cuz he shells out lots of money. Sometimes the three of them watch QVC and then buy buy buy. Nobody knows where their money goes.
I met a man named Wade. By met, I mean we’ve been chatting online. “I think that I love you,” he emailed to me. He thinks I’m 19.
I told him I’d record him a song. This is not that song.
I think my sister’s boyfriend has a crush on me. He likes to walk around wearing only a towel. Pausing at my bedroom door, saying “Hey Dude!”, showing off his treasure trail. He’s nothing to write home about. But he’s more than my sister deserves.
“I love that you love me,” I emailed back. I think I could love him; but maybe I’ll hate him. Even more than Mommy hates Daddy.
I dream about my sister’s college drop-out, and the internet love of my life, who swears he’s divorcing his wife, I imagine them wrestling, with me as the prize. I gotta record a song for him, Wade… before he doesn’t love me anymore.
Mata Hari! “The Eye of the Day” in Javanese, according to the translation she gave me.
When she entered for the first time in my office – That was February 13th, 1917 – I saw a full-lipped woman with coppery skin, somewhat native-like with fake pearls in the ears.
She said her name was Margaret Geertrude Zelle – the ex-wife of the Major Rudolph MacLeod, she said in a haughty tone like a person of importance that had been improperly and unnecessarily disturbed.
Officer Priolet, who an hour earlier apprehended her while she slept in a hotel on the Champs-Elysées.
Then, believing being released from me, she changed her expression and gave me her most gracious smile.
Then she went to the door with swinging of her hips that did not fail to charm.
But she was no longer free, and the stairs leading to the cell were opened before her.
She looked at me, her eyes rolled back, in mute terror.
I tasted another woman in your mouth.
I don’t mind that you have other lovers.
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The University Grants Commission (UGC) says that the student handbook containing the application form for university admissions will be issued on Thursday.
Speaking to News1st Chairman of the Commission Professor Mohan De Silva stated that several new subjects have been introduced as part of the curriculum.
He added that students will be able to purchase these hand books from stores in Universities and elsewhere.


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Landmark changes to the way that financial advisers in the Middle East are paid for their services are not ready to be implemented "any time soon", despite the widely held belief that they would be implented in the coming weeks.
April 6 had been had expected to be the date the United Arab Emirates Insurance Authourity (IA) would gazzette the new regulation, but as this date passed, there is expected to be longer delay according to an industry source close within Dubai.
The source said that the regulator had instructed them directly that "there was no truth" in reports of an April or June gazzetting of the rules that will change the way that commission from life companies is disclosed and paid to advisers in the region.
The UAE IA does not directly comment on the timing of its regulatory changes, but the source told II that it had been told that report of imminent changes are not true.
As reported, earlier this year the IA published what it called a final draft on the sales of life products that proposes the introduction of a 4.5% commission cap on the sale of lump sum portfolio bonds or offshore bonds.
According to the document - Draft Board of Directors' Decision Pertinent to Regulations for Life Insurance and Family Takaful-, published January 31, the regulator also outlines an overall cap of 90% on commissions of savings products over the full term of the policy. Currently, the fees can range from around 6% up to 15% in some cases.


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In economics, one of the most basic concepts is that of perfect substitutes. Namely, this is the idea that some goods are perfectly identical and substitutable in the consumers mind, such that a price change in one will cause the consumer to simply buy the other. In studying this topic, I immediately had a myriad of problems with the concept, as consumers do not simply see products as interchangeable - they have a developed set of brand and quality preferences. Economics textbooks use the example that Coke and Pepsi are perfect substitutes, which to a soda drinker, is like saying Coke and water or Coke and Orange Juice are the same thing. (Seriously, who drinks Pepsi? I legitimately wonder.) Sure, these items are all under the "beverages" or "sodas" category, but today they are not viewed as alike. This wasn't always the case, though - the rise of American affluence gave us the luxury of choice and ability to be picky about what we like. Below you lies my economic case against perfect substitutes, so read on if you are interested in hearing how they became an economic unicorn.
Prior to industrialization and the explosion of communication, consumers had few, if any, options to choose between, and goods were carried in stores via relationship-based sales. This method of purchasing left little room for specific preferences or new entrants to the market, and created an environment in which the concept of perfect substitutes made sense. Globalized trade and the introduction of internet increased both affluence and the number of substitute goods available to consumers, fundamentally changing the climate in which perfect substitutes were hatched. Once marketing and advertising developed as disciplines, consumers began to have brand loyalty and see differentiation in products. The incorporation of ethical choices, brand loyalty, and product differentiation into consumer preferences is contingent upon affluence, but has meant that consumers see goods formerly classified as perfect substitutes to be merely substitutes. The rise of affluence in America allowed for marketing and advertising that has successfully dismantled the concept of perfect substitutes for nearly all goods.
Early economists Francise Ysidro Edgeworth and Vilfredo Pareto were the first to define the concepts of complementary and substitute goods. Between two goods, if the price of Good X increases, and demand for Good Y decreases, Good Y is a complement. Conversely, if the price of Good X increases, and the demand for Good Y increases, Good Y is a substitute. The degree to which certain goods are substitutes or complements varies, depending on what the items are and consumer preferences. If goods are perfectly substitutable in the consumer’s mind, they are known as perfect substitutes—this category typically contains commodities and produce. Common examples of perfect substitutes by economics textbooks include Pepsi and Coke, name brand and generic product, and Budweiser and Coors. Substitutes and complements are some of the most basic economic concepts, but Edgeworth and Pareto died in 1926 and 1923, respectively, making their Edgeworth-Pareto principle around one hundred years old.
At around the same time, the subjects of marketing and advertising were experiencing major growth. Though topically introduced in the 19th century, it wasn’t until the beginning of the 20th century that the disciplines of marketing and advertising began to grow. Around 1900, the concept of demand evolved from including simple purchasing power to also reflecting desire to purchase, a factor that could be influenced by advertising. Robert Bartels (1967) produced a history of marketing chronicling from the advent of marketing in 1900 to the development of differentiation from 1960-1970 and the socialization of marketing in the seventies.
When an emphasis on product differentiation manifested through the dependence effect, consumers began to develop detailed preferences for consumption—regular orange juice versus pulp-free, calcium-fortified orange juice versus regular, and so on. Items consumers would have previously never dreamed of demanding slowly become distinctly different in their minds from their former perfect substitute. As absurd as it may seem, the rising affluence of American society has ensured many orange juice drinkers would not view regular orange juice to be a perfect substitute for pulp-free, implying that if the price of one were to rise, consumers would not simply buy the other.
A myriad of literature has been produced discussing the influence of brand loyalty on consumer demand. Though preference loyalty and brand loyalty are distinctly different, they may be considered as similar consumer preferences. Krishnamurthi and Raj (1991) defined the purchase decision as entailing two separate decisions—the brand choice decision and the purchase quantity decision—and empirically found that brand-loyal customers are less price sensitive than non-loyals in the choice decision, but more price sensitive in the quantity decision. That is to say, consumers would rather buy less of a certain good than deviate from their preferred brand, a clear indication that consumers do not regard the purportedly identical goods as perfect substitutes. By the economic definition, a perfect substitute is a Good Y such that if the price of Good X increases, the consumer will simply buy Good Y, as they are interchangeable. Empirical proof showing that consumers would rather buy less of the good than purchase a different brand in response to a price change thoroughly refutes the definition of perfect substitutes.
Affluence is also recognized as being a “pre-condition for the development of sophisticated substitute and synthetic products”, a theory explored for the food market by Polopolus (1967). This precept holds truer than ever today, as America boasts thousands of food substitutes including vegan, GMO-free, organic, locally raised, and fair-trade products. These product features all have moral and ethical undertones, reflecting, or perhaps because of, the idea that consumers should vote with their wallet. The creation of substitute products extends far beyond food, of course, as the development of chemical and petro-chemical based synthetics has extended textile and raw materials markets. It is affluence that allows for the development of these substitutes, and affluence that gives consumers the luxury of making purchases based on their political and moral causes. Duly, even the typical examples of perfect substitutes—produce and commodities—no longer remain as such.
Formerly indistinguishable foods like apples now have many different categories people are willing to pay a premium for—organic, wax-free, pesticide-free, and locally grown, to name a few. Many do not regard a regular apple to be identical to an organic apple, especially if they are the same price. Empirical findings show that consumers will choose organic over eco-labeled over regular apples, a decision influenced by household size, environmental attitudes, income, and children (Loureiro, 2001). Even in the broad categories of organic and non-organic, consumers care about the location where the item originated in order to reduce carbon emissions and support local businesses. The unique feature of produce and commodities that made them perfect substitutes was the idea that consumers didn’t care who produced the item; they saw suppliers to be interchangeable. The development of market segmentation based on moral and political preferences now precludes all produce and some commodities from being classified as perfect substitutes. The only exceptions to the rejection of perfect substitutes are physically indistinguishable commodities like gold, silver, and oil—all of the others have been marketed and differentiated upon.
The introduction of globalized trade and the internet further increased affluence and, in turn, consumer choice. The product expansion aspect of international trade as pioneered by Krugman (1980) assumes that consumers have a taste for a variety of differentiated goods that cannot all be produced by domestic firms. Trade liberalization thus benefits consumers, as it allows them to choose from a larger number of goods. The expansion of trade increases affluence and expands the variety of products available, allowing marketers to further inflate demand and differentiate products. The development of aforementioned new product qualities did not just happen organically, there had to be innovation and new market entrants with a differing product. The cost of market entrance influences whether or not innovation will be possible, and the rise of global trade coinciding with enhanced transportation and communication infrastructure allowed more actors to enter markets with unique products.
The introduction of the internet compounded the ease with which new actors could enter markets. As affirmed by Freund and Weinhold (2000), the internet stimulates trade and has created a global exchange for goods, reducing costs and acting as a virtual market. Krugman’s trade theory can be expanded to include internet trade—allowing consumers to have access to a wider variety of goods boosts welfare, whether it be through global trade, the internet, or global trade supported by the internet. The internet ensured that all the newly developed consumer preferences could be catered to, no matter where an individual lived. This was a critical market shift, as rural consumers might wish to purchase recycled or organic goods, but not have the physical retail presence to support their preferences. With the introduction of the internet and globalized trade, consumers everywhere became able to make purchases based upon their preferences and values, further cementing their views that certain goods are not perfect substitutes.
Affluence may be considered the invisible hand guiding the dismantling of perfect substitutes; only those with the luxury of choice may act upon or develop complex preferences. This dismantling will only deepen as access to internet becomes a global standard and environmental concerns drive more consumers to incorporate ethics into their choices. Characterizing former perfect substitutes as merely substitutes is critical both for economists to examine consumer choice, and for businesses to target consumers more effectively. The concept of perfect substitutes made sense in a non-globalized economy with relatively low affluence, but as America has experienced tremendous growth in affluence, consumer preferences have become very complex and non-interchangeable. Resultingly, perfect substitutes should be relegated as arcane economic theory.


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I know…I’m supposed to be creating…not learning something ELSE! But I’ve had my eye on this beauty for about 2 years now – and just couldn’t pass up Linda’s great offer! But at least there are 2 projects that are already slated to be finished with my new baby! Maybe my path in life right now is still to learn. Actually, I hope I NEVER stop learning!
The fabric dyeing classes are going great. I just need more time in the day to work on them.
Next assignment for myself: Make a list of things I would like to accomplish this year. A little late getting started on my New Year’s resolutions, but late is typically my MO. First thing on that list will be to go over all of my dyeing recipes, re-do them. Taking great notes, tweaking the recipes, cutting samples, etc. All with the hope of getting some wonderful sets of FQ’s together – possibly to sell, possibly as gifts.


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As noted in this month’s CEPR Jobs Byte, the national unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in April. The establishment survey reported that the economy added 211,000 jobs. Roughly offsetting revisions to the prior two months’ job growth brings the average for the last three months to 174,000.
Last November, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States thanks largely to overwhelming support from working-class white voters. This has engendered a discussion about the decline of blue collar jobs in the Midwest specifically and throughout the country more broadly.
As noted in this month’s CEPR Jobs Byte, the national unemployment rate ticked down to 4.5 percent in March. Overall job growth was just 98,000 for the month. Coupled with downward revision in the last two months, the three-month job growth average was 178,000.
February was the third consecutive month for growth in manufacturing jobs, bringing the change over the last year to 7,000.


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What data is held in the Nature Index?
What is a funding institution?
What is a principal institution?
How will the Nature Index be made available?
How have articles been selected for inclusion in the Nature Index?
What journals are included in the Nature Index?

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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Richard Hampton Jenrette (April 5, 1929 – April 22, 2018) was an American businessman who was one of the founders of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ).
Jenrette was born on April 5, 1929, in Raleigh, North Carolina and "grew up in a comfortable Tudor" home. He was the son of Joseph Jenrette, a successful local insurance salesman, and Emma Jenrette, an avid gardener who lived to 101.
Jenrette graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA 1951) and the Harvard Business School (MBA 1957).
Following his graduation from UNC, Jenrette was employed at New England Life Insurance Co. from 1951 to 1953. After obtaining his MBA from Harvard in 1957, he began working at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. until 1959.
In 1959, he founded Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette ("DLJ") with William H. Donaldson, who subsequently became chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Dan Lufkin. Under Jenrette's direction, the firm concentrated on in-depth analysis, creating a new industry standard for institutional investing. Jenrette was also instrumental in taking DLJ public in 1970, making it the first publicly traded investment firm in the United States.
Taking the helm of DLJ in 1973, he successfully shepherded the firm through a recession and, later, a 1985 sale to worldwide insurance leader, The Equitable Companies Inc., where he became the chief investment officer. Jenrette later served as chairman and CEO from April 1990, until his retirement in 1996.
In addition to his career at DLC and Equitable, he also served on the Harvard University board of overseers (and a director of the associates of the Harvard Business School), was a trustee of The Duke Endowment, and chairman of the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust.
Jenrette was a bachelor who did not marry, but had a partner, William L. Thompson, who died in 2013.
Jenrette died of cancer on April 22, 2018, aged 89, in Charleston, South Carolina. According to the website of his foundation, the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, he left a paper in his desk listing his 24 rules of life for success.
Beginning in the 1960s, Jenrette bought and restored a series of significant historic American houses, including Robert William Roper House in Charleston, South Carolina; Millford Plantation in South Carolina; Ayr Mount in North Carolina; Estate Cane Garden on St. Croix; the George F. Baker House in New York City; and Edgewater in Barrytown, New York (bought from author Gore Vidal in 1969).
Jenrette commissioned new buildings, including a gate house (1997) and poolhouse (1998) at Edgewater, designed by the architect Michael Dwyer.
Jenrette's books include Jenrette: The Contrarian Manager, a memoir of his career on Wall Street, and Adventures With Old Houses, a memoir of his experiences restoring several historic buildings.
^ a b c Hershey Jr., Robert D. (April 23, 2018). "Richard Jenrette, 89, Wall St. Power and Preserver of Homes, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
^ a b c Brown, Patricia Leigh (December 19, 1996). "Old Houses, Just Gotta Have 'Em". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
^ Ellis, Charles D. Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls, Volume 2. John Wiley & Sons. p. 299. ISBN 978-0-471-23809-6. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
^ a b Wayne, Leslie (June 1, 1990). "Going to the Rescue of an Insurer". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
^ Profile, HBS.edu; accessed April 22, 2018.
^ Eichenwald, Kurt. "Jenrette Reported to Decline Chairman's Job at Big Board".
^ "Jenrette Named Equitable Chief". The New York Times. May 18, 1990. p. 3. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
^ Truell, Peter (February 14, 1996). "Chairman of Equitable Retires, Prompting Change at Insurer". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
^ "Richard Jenrette, Co-Founder of DLJ Investment Bank, Dies at 89".
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New York Magazine website, http://nymag.com ; accessed April 23, 2018.
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called, and if you actually try using it, it doesn't work.
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should I ever make a tree of dependent services?
works before other services get their startService called?
the internet services in their own MutiService container?
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industry_corpus2: Programming


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Wayne Bivens-Tatum chimed in on December 17, 2013 at Academic Librarian—and as usual his perspective is different, interesting and thought out. The lede: You know when someone at Scholarly Kitchen thinks your anti-open access rant is excessive you’ve crossed some sort of threshold. You also know that when a biologist and a co-founder of the Public Library of Science bothers to give your article a thorough fisking, you have people’s attention. Even Roy Tennant seems a little riled, and he’s usually pretty calm. Jeffrey Beall has managed to publish an antiopen access article in an open access journal that’s so poorly argued that I wonder if he’ll later use the publication as an example of how bad OA publishing can be. The Beall Hoax.
I have come up with another triad: that is, with three principal reactive-reactionary theses, which I call the perversity thesis or thesis of the perverse effect, the futility thesis, and the jeopardy thesis. According to the perversity thesis, any purposive action to improve some feature of the political, social, or economic order only serves to exacerbate the condition one wishes to remedy. The futility thesis holds that attempts at social transformation will be unavailing, that they will simply fail to “make a dent.” Finally, the jeopardy thesis argues that the code of the proposed chafe or reform is too high as it endangers some previous, precious accomplishment.
This makes some sense if you share a Randian worldview. In this comforting worldview, the world is a simple place to understand. It’s filled not with flawed human beings acting upon a variety of motivations trying to make their way through a complex world. No, the world is made of heroes and villains. The heroes are the people who think as I do and are always right. The villains are any people who disagree with any part of my ideology. They do so not because the world is complicated and disagreement natural, but because they are evil and possibly stupid, and no matter what noble motives they might claim to have, they’re lying and trying to destroy some beloved institution. Also, there’s the faith that commercial enterprise is always good and free markets (if they ever really exist) always lead to the best outcome. Challenging this faith in any way leads to an extreme reaction. It’s a world of extremes. Criticizing any area in which private enterprise and free markets maybe don’t give us the outcomes we want is equated with being a “collectivist” who wants to bring the capitalist system down. That explains why in the article, criticism of Elsevier or of commercial science publishing means that one wants to destroy all corporations.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense until you look at it through the Randian lens. In this world, people don’t support open access because they think the creation and dissemination of new knowledge is a public good. They do it because they want to destroy all corporations and deny freedom to people. This must be their motive because they disagree with Beall about open access scholarship, and he thinks these things are bad, so they must be motivated by these evil ideas. Q.E.D. Since there have to be heroes and villains, Beall must be the hero and everyone who disagrees with him in the slightest a villain who is acting from evil motives to destroy everything he holds dear. Once you share this worldview, evidence doesn’t matter anymore.
Some OA publishing is predatory publishing. All predatory publishing is bad. Therefore, all OA publishing is bad. Sounds about right—not, to be sure, as a valid syllogism.
The open-access movement has always had its… characters. Zealots. Kooks. Scary people. People who just Aren’t Our Sort, Dearie. Any old loon can start a weblog, after all; at least one Loon has done so. For all the differences the Loon has with some of OA’s other characters, she stops short of wishing them gone. It takes a certain amount of kookiness to provide energy sufficient to get anything done sometimes. Moreover, engaging publicly with kookery is often a fool’s game, at best analogous to teaching pigs Mozart arias, at worst lending kooks credibility they do not deserve and should not be permitted to have. So OA tolerates its kooks, usually with kindness, sometimes with a politely blind eye or deaf ear… and that is largely as it should be.
Loon’s first instinctive characterization. The Loon will mercilessly mock and possibly savage any commenter waltzing in here with “oh, well, nobody actually believed Beall; he had no real influence.” That is arrant nonsense, and the greatest pity is that it is arrant nonsense spouted by those most deeply steeped in the OA movement and most desirous of its success.
In the Loon’s prior professional world, Beall’s list was an enormously valuable convenience, and because of that, Beall himself enjoyed considerable credibility, such that his least pronouncement was freely email forwarded everywhere. Every now and then this was plainly passive aggression against the Loon herself (she has mentioned how deeply her prior workplace loathed her and all her works, correct?), but by and large, it was ignorance crossed with homophily among librarians to whom OA and its advocates felt like a threat. The Loon’s workplace was no sort of outlier—well, except insofar as many, many academic libraries still boast insufficient knowledge of or interest in OA to bother forwarding communiqués about it.
Those OA advocates who wonder why libraries are not more active in the OA movement need wonder no more. The Loon boggles particularly at one currently- circulating notion that academic libraries will just take over scholarly publishing wholesale. Not in an environment where Beall’s frothings circulate as freely as water churned up by migrating flocks of waterfowl! Fortunately, the Loon can’t think of any other major OA showpiece services run by OA’s enemies. (OA and hybrid journals at toll-access publishers are insufficiently influential to count at this juncture.) We can at least hope that an analogous situation will not arise again. If it does, though, let us please intervene earlier. Keep what is valuable about such services by all means, but let us not allow their proprietors to fuel further apathy and anti-OA agitation.
Unfortunately, as such examples as a January 2014 link from ALA Direct to the latest Beall’s List demonstrates, the scorn hasn’t happened effectively. The first link is to Distraction Watch, a community archive of strange emails from probably-sketchy publishers. It’s no substitute for stronger action from OASPA and others, but it’s an interesting piece of the puzzle.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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DHAKA, Oct 30 2012 (IPS) - Bangladesh’s achievement in raising exclusive breastfeeding rates for infants under six months from 43 percent to 64 percent, over the last five years, is said to be the result of a determined campaign by government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Many of the nurses employed at the hospital trained at the Bangladesh Breastfeeding Foundation (BBF) which has, since 1989, been running intensive programmes to promote exclusive breastfeeding.
“Exclusive breastfeeding along with awareness building on improving the health of undernourished mothers is the best way to address child malnutrition in Bangladesh,” says BBF chairman Dr. S.K. Roy.
“The challenge now is to take the breastfeeding rate to even higher levels and thereby drastically reduce child malnutrition which is a problem in Bangladesh,” Roy told IPS in an interview.
An internationally acclaimed scientist working on child health, Roy said BBF’s main role was to function as a catalyst to build the capacity of the government, NGOs, the private sector and other stakeholders.
Bangladesh’s achievement seems especially impressive when compared with the low exclusive breastfeeding average in South Asia for infants under six months, languishing at 39 percent.
“We have a high level of commitment and support from the government, which is why we have been able to form a nationwide network for our advocacy programmes in a relatively short time,” Roy said.
In 2010, Bangladesh enforced a directive for extending maternal leave to six months from the previous four for working women to allow them to exclusively breastfeed their newborn.
“This is a sign of the seriousness with which the government is taking the issue as a key to achieving the United Nations millennium development goal that calls for reducing child mortality rates,” Khurshid Jahan, a senior BBF member, told IPS.
“Many don’t realise that exclusive breastfeeding can address stunting and low weight problems,” Jahan said. “If every mother practices breastfeeding we would have a healthier and more productive population,” she added.
Workers like Jahan credit the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) – a global programme sponsored by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – that assists hospitals in giving mothers confidence and skills to initiate and continue breastfeeding.
About 1,200 government hospitals and health facilities now have centres under the BFHI, while another 500 clinics run by NGOs have similar facilities where mothers are nudged towards exclusive breastfeeding.
In rural areas, mother support groups (MSGs) are at work counselling new mothers and weaning them away from old wives’ myths and traditions that are not friendly to breastfeeding.
When new mothers get back home from the hospital after delivery they are often surrounded by women who insist on feeding the babies prelacteals such as honey or mustard oil, ignoring the naturally protective value of colostrum.
Infants exclusively breastfed are likely to be exposed less to contaminated foods and this helps reduce the incidence and severity of infectious diseases, Chowdhury said.
After six months, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods while continuing to be breastfed for up to two years of age or beyond.
Villeneuve said there is work to be done to increase awareness regarding the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding and provide support to nursing mothers at home, community or workplace.
Good effort. But the source of this ‘64% breast feeding’ is not mentioned. That is “Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey, 2011”. In short BDHS, 2011, done by NIPORT. More information in this regard will come out in the final report of BDHS, 2011, scheduled to come out in December, 2012. Shelina Afroza PhD. Director General, NIPORT.


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Welcome to Spiritualworld - Living Tree Orchid Essences - This weeks special!
The active element in an “essence”, is the etheric energy of the plant. Based upon the 80 year tradition of the remedies of Dr Edward Bach, flower essences contain no trace of plant material, other than the cognac that is used purely as a preservative.
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