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MOBILE, Ala. (2/25/06) The North Texas women’s basketball team (19-8, 9-6) defeated South Alabama (14-13, 8-7) 60-39 on Saturday at the Mitchell Center to claim the Sun Belt Conference West Division title.

Mia Ajekwu scored 18 of her career-high 24 points in the second half, which was dominated by the Mean Green.  North Texas led just 27-21 at halftime, but outscored the Jaguars 33-18 over the final 20 minutes to claim its second SBC West Division title over the last five years.

“I was really proud of the way that we came out and responded in a pressure situation tonight,” said North Texas head coach Tina Slinker.  “This was a great win for our team.”

North Texas led 34-28 with 15 minutes remaining, but went on a 7-0 run to open up a double-figure lead and extended it to as much as 21 points, the final margin.

The Mean Green hit 39 percent of its shots in the second half, while holding the Jaguars to a .172 percentage over the games final half.  NT also finished with 10 more rebounds (44-34),10 more assists (17-7) and three more steals (7-4) than the Jaguars for the entire game.

Ajekwu narrowly missed a double-double, pulling down nine rebounds to go along with her game-high point total.  Erika Bobo also finished with nine rebounds and added 13 points as the only other NT player to score in double digits.

South Alabama was led by Whitney Woodard with 17 points and 11 rebounds.

North Texas will be the No. 1 seed out of the West Division in the upcoming Sun Belt Conference Tournament, scheduled for March 3-7.  The Mean Green will receive a first-round bye before playing the winner of the No.4 East/No. 5 West game on Saturday, March 4, at 5 p.m.

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Virgin Radio, originally known as Virgin 1215, is a British commercial music radio station based in London which plays popular music and rock. Virgin currently broadcasts on mediumwave and DAB across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on 105.8 FM in London, on Freeview, Sky Digital and cable television. It is also available in other parts of the world via satellite, cable, and on the Internet.

Broadcasting history
Virgin Radio was originally called Virgin 1215 when it was launched nationally on 1215 kHz (although some regional transmitters used other frequencies) at 12.15pm on 30 April 1993.

The first song was a special version of the Steppenwolf song "Born to be Wild", recorded by Australian group INXS. Richard Branson was the first voice to-air, live from the Virgin Megastore in Manchester. The first voice in the studio was Richard Skinner.

Some months later after the station launched, it also began broadcasting in stereo on satellite via Sky Television. This has continued with the switchover to digital broadcasting. Virgin Radio later acquired a local FM franchise for London, allowing it to broadcast on, 105.8 FM, in that area. This service launched on 10 April 1995 and initially carried regional programming for the London area, although this has now ceased.

The station was then sold to Ginger Media, owned by Chris Evans, who was a mainstay on the station, presenting a breakfast show from 1997 until 2001. Evans sold Ginger Media to SMG plc for £225 million GBP in March 2000 and was subsequently fired by his new employer in 2001 for failing to report into work for 5 consecutive days while reportedly partying with his then wife Billie Piper.

On June 13, 2006 SMG plc signed a deal with YooMedia to make Virgin Radio available on Freeview. It has always placed a great emphasis on other methods of transmission than medium wave, as the 1215 kHz frequency suffers from considerable interference, particularly after dark - BBC Radio 1, which used 1215 kHz for its first eleven years on air, moved to higher-quality medium wave frequencies (now used by talkSport) in 1978 mainly for this reason. Interference is thought to come from around Europe, particularly Russia, which has a station on this frequency.

The Station, its audience and playlist
Virgin Radio's former chief executive Fru Hazlitt, when interviewed for The Guardian (September 25, 2006), described what type of music the station champions. When told of comparisons between Virgin and other MOR, or "Middle-of-the-road" music radio stations, such as the BBC's Radio 2, she remarked that "that was [during] the Chris Evans era. Now, it's pretty much mainstream rock festival type music. Razorlight, Keane. These bands are becoming some of the biggest in the world."

The station's output does mainly consist of contemporary British-based guitar "MOR" rock-pop bands, such as the aforementioned Keane and Razorlight but also artists like Coldplay, Snow Patrol and The Feeling. It also plays various other "Adult album alternative" artists from Britain, Ireland and America, like Oasis, U2, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M. and The Killers, as well as "Golden Oldies" such as The Beatles, Queen, The Clash and The Who to name a few.

Virgin Radio's target audience is predominantly those aged 25-44 [3]. Its "spin-off" digital radio stations (see below) exploit the 'niche' musical tastes of this target audience, and leans on a particular rock sub-genre that is played on Virgin Radio, or to cater for an audience that is within its target demographic but are not served properly by the flagship station.

In a number of areas, particularly in areas where the signal from the main 1215 transmitters overlap with each other, Virgin Radio operates a number of filler transmitters on different frequencies :-

1197 kHz - Brighton and Hove, Cambridge, South Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Oxford, South Nottinghamshire, Medway, Merseyside
1233 kHz - Berkshire, Essex, Northampton, Sheffield, Swindon
1242 kHz - Cleveland, Dundee, Lincolnshire, Staffordshire
1260 kHz - Guildford, East Kent

The Big Star
A little after 8:00 on the morning of Monday 25 September 2006, The station's breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell revealed The Big Star, which has turned out to be a giant 20 ft x 20 ft star, which took three weeks to complete in a secret location and hung above Regent Street. It was also revealed that if listeners guessed the exact amount within it one of them could win it in cash. To play, listeners had to register the website and could view the star on the webcam. A listener would be selected randomly every hour. It was won at noon on October 10, by Phil from Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire with a winning guess of £108,125.15. (The winning guess was an anagram of "105.8 1215", the station's two main analogue frequencies.)

The Big Star will return in 2007.

Around the world
The Virgin name is used for other radio stations in other territories. Virgin Radio stations exist in Thailand and India, and Oui FM in Paris is due to rebrand in 2007. These are not owned by SMG, and remain within Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Many Virgin companies, including Virgin Megastores and Virgin Trains, have in-store radio stations.

Spinoff stations
SMG plc has recently launched a number of spin-off stations within its Virgin Radio Network. These are:

Virgin Radio Classic Rock
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A radio station on DAB, Sky Digital and the Internet playing classic rock from the sixties to the nineties.

Virgin Radio Groove
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A radio station on DAB, Sky Digital and the Internet which plays motown, soul and disco music.

Virgin Radio Xtreme
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Launched on September 5 2005, Virgin Radio Xtreme plays rock music, and is aimed at teenage males.

Virgin Radio Party Classics
Launched on Thursday 15 June 2006, Virgin Radio Party Classics played party pop music. The radio station was based on Suggs Virgin Party Classics show broadcast on Virgin Radio. The station closed down on Friday 13 October 2006.

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Many physicians don't routinely discuss the resumption of sexual activity with patients who experience an acute myocardial infarction (MI), but when they do, it helps, researchers found.

In a survey of 1,879 heart attack patients, only 41% of men and 24% of women at 1-year follow-up reported having a discussion with their doctor about sex before hospital discharge. The mean age was 58 for men and 61 for women.

Those who were sexually active before their MI were more likely to resume their sex life if they were counseled by their physician, Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, from University of Chicago Medical Center, and colleagues reported online in the American Journal of Cardiology.

The death rate among those who were sexually active in the first month after their MI was not significantly different than in those who were less sexually active.

How an Itch Leads to Heart Disease

In a preclinical study, researchers have found a causal link between psoriasis and cardiovascular disease, and have suggested that aggressive treatment of the psoriasis could potentially mitigate the CVD risk.

Mice engineered to overexpress a protein called Tie-2 in the skin that causes a condition similar to human psoriasis developed vascular inflammation and were at a greater risk of thrombus occlusion than controls, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

And when the researchers reversed the skin disease in the mice, the inflammation and atherothrombosis also decreased, they reported in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

They suggested that testing for certain inflammatory biomarkers could be used to predict poorer outcomes in patients with psoriasis, since these markers develop before the onset of clinical vascular disease.

Hospitalization Not Good Sign for Kids with Cardiomyopathy

The first hospital admission for children with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) holds a poor prognosis, as does the year to follow, researchers found.

Of 83 patients (mean age 7) retrospectively reviewed, 6% died and 18% were transplanted during the index hospitalization, and at 1 year, those rates were 15% and 38%, respectively, according to Seth A. Hollander, MD, of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., and colleagues.

Factors that were strongly predictive of outcome for the initial hospitalization were both quantitative and qualitative left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and fractional shortening; LVEF was also strongly predictive of 1-year outcome.

Other predictive variables of death or transplantation during the index stay were mixed venous saturation, higher uric acid levels, right atrial pressure, and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, according to the study published online in Circulation: Heart Failure.

PAH Drug Cleared of Long-Term Liver Damage

Compared with other drugs in its class, Ambrisentan (Letairis) for pulmonary arterial hypertension was found to have minimal toxic effects on the liver, researchers said.

An analysis of a post-marketing surveillance database of nearly 11,000 patients taking the drug revealed a 0.72% rate of clinically significant hepatic events, reported Ori Ben-Yehuda, MD, and colleagues from Gilead Sciences, makers of ambrisentan.

Based on the same database, the FDA removed the requirement of mandatory monthly monitoring for liver function testing in 2011, researchers wrote online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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When uncontrolled diabetes and/or coronary heart disease are accompanied by depression, it's best to combine psychiatric and medical disease management, a randomized trial found.

Although the active intervention period ended at 1 year, those in the collaborative care arm sustained a psychiatric benefit at 2 years, attaining a mean of 3 to 4 months free of depression compared with the usual care group, Wayne Katon, MD, of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, and colleagues reported.

At 1 year, patients in the collaborative care arm had significantly greater improvement in hemoglobin A1c, LDL-C, and systolic blood pressure. However, at 18 and 24 months, these differences were no longer significant compared with the usual care group. The mean age for patients in both arms was 56.

Researchers suggested that a longer period of case management intervention would be needed to sustain the improvement seen at 1 year. The study was published online in the Archives of General Psychiatry and the intervention was carried out at primary care offices.

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Editor-at-Large George Lundberg, MD, and co-author make the case for better data sharing among medical researchers.

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Hello and Welcome. I'm Dr. George Lundberg, speaking for myself and lead co-author Eugen Tarnow, and this is At Large at MedPage Today.

Our kindergarten teachers and Hippocrates taught us to share. But after school, capitalism takes over among American medical researchers.

Eric Campbell et al write in "Data Withholding in Academic Genetics" that it was frequent for investigators to be denied access to data. The reasons for denials include "too much effort" and protecting potential publications of students and themselves.

The respondents expressed only a little worry about protecting the commercial value of results: all data sharing is subject to transfer agreements that limit commercial applications of any of the shared data.

The lack of data sharing may have particularly serious consequences when data take decades to generate in diseases such as Alzheimer's. Only after autopsy is the dataset complete.

Might the lack of progress during the last 104 years of Alzheimer's research be related to unwillingness to share data?

Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit research organization, writes "we've witnessed exponential increases in the quantity of molecular and genetic information without concomitant advances in the understanding of biology or disease," and blames "current systems and practices for sharing datasets."

Sage president Stephen Friend makes a compelling case for data sharing.

Half-hearted efforts to force researchers to share data include the NIH, which requires a "data sharing plan" for large grants, but nevertheless allows transfer agreements.

Some journals, such as PNAS, insist that data be shared or the authors will be barred from future publication. Again, in practice, it allows transfer agreements but does not review them.

That efforts such as these have not fully succeeded should not be surprising. Piwowar and Chapman report in "Public sharing of research datasets: a pilot study of associations" in 2011 in Journal Infometrics that "being subject to the NIH data sharing plan requirement was not found to correlate with increased data sharing behavior," and the same applied to studies published in journals that "require" data sharing.

Many scientists in other fields share data.

Physicists even divide their researchers into experimentalists, who generate the data, and theorists who try to figure out what it means. A few years ago physics had been so successful that it was thought not to contain anything else discoverable. But that's another story.

Medical scientists should share data.

That's our opinion. I am Dr. George Lundberg, speaking for lead co-author Eugen Tarnow of Fair Lawn, N.J., At Large for MedPage Today.

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Moving the HME Industry Forward

Why Exhibit

The Home Medical Equipment industry is constantly evolving, but one thing remains the same:  the demand for the latest products and technology.  At Medtrade Spring, thousands of qualified attendees will be there to buy the products and services that are right for their customers, and that will ensure the success of their business.

New for 2017 - In 2017, Medtrade Spring will be co-locating with the Environments for Aging Expo & Conference. Environments for Aging (EFA) is one of the newer additions to Emerald’s healthcare portfolio, and for 10 years has been a primary resource for architects and designers whose focus is creating functional and attractive living environments that meet the needs of our aging population. Attendees at EFA will learn about the latest innovations and best practices in senior friendly design for long-term and residential care settings.

As the overall continuum of care evolves, bringing these two top tier events together (FEB 26 - MAR 1) allows you to reach a wider audience of providers, clinical professions, and designers all focused on developing solutions in the field of personal healthcare.

It's the show of shows if you are in the DME industry.

There are a lot more engaged people at Medtrade. If they come to the booth and they are interested, it’s not just a courtesy. They are there because there is a need.

The Medtrade Audience Includes:

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What can exhibiting at a Medtrade event do for you?

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  • Help you generate numerous highly qualified leads in just two days
  • Educate your target audience about the value of your products
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Every year, a growing number of corporations turn to videoconferencing to get more business done. In fact, according to M&C’s 1998 Meetings Market Report, more than a quarter of corporate planners (26 percent) are using the technology, up from 21 percent in 1996. Clearly, these on-screen meetings give new definitions to A/V requirements, room setup, speaker preparation and protocol. Here’s what planners should know.

Make sure the facility has experience and understands the many intricacies of videoconferencing, including connection speed, dial-up requirements and standards in communication links. There should be technicians on staff who can handle unexpected difficulties on the spot.

There are two kinds of services: point-to-point and multipoint transmissions. Point-to-point is the most common type of videoconferencing, in which only two sites are used. Multipoint calls frequently are used when companies want to bring a large number of people up to speed at the same time. They require a “bridge” or “MCU” (multipoint conferencing units) to connect three or more conference sites for simultaneous communications. Unlimited participants can join in at up to 50 sites.

Most videoconferences will not have the fine picture quality we see on televisions. For instance, when using ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) lines to carry the conference, the transmission is compressed with a quarter-second delay, which results in a slight delay of sound and picture. It’s noticeable at first, but participants quickly adapt. To minimize this, the connection can be made using more ISDN lines for faster transmission.

For this service, the room and equipment generally cost about $250 an hour per site. The transmission costs $40 to $1,000 per hour depending on the speed, distance between sites and quality of the transmission. The party who places the call pays the ISDN phone bill.

TV-quality satellite videoconferencing can be accomplished by bringing in a satellite dish. The video is not compressed as with ISDN lines, but the cost is much higher: approximately $1,400 per site and $900 per hour. Also, rainy weather can affect the transmission.

Before anyone gathers for the transmission, a number of details need to be worked out

  • Decide who needs to be seen and who needs to be heard.
  • Distribute documents to participants and/or other sites prior to the meeting so the camera can stay on the presenter, rather than papers.
  • Prepare graphs and charts on an 8.5" x 11" paper in landscape (horizontal) format, using at least 18- or 24-point fonts. A document camera can then project the graphics simultaneously to all sites.
  • Advise participants to avoid white shirts and blouses they make faces look washed out. Avoid fabric that sparkles or has a busy pattern, such as plaids or polka dots. Muted or contrasting colors (light blue shirt, dark blue jacket) look best. Avoid any jewelry that jingles even subtle noises can be distracting.
  • To prevent unflattering shadows on participants’ faces, draw the curtains and shut any blinds. If the room only has direct overhead light, seat everyone at a table covered with a white tablecloth to reflect the light evenly on faces.
  • Appoint a leader at each site who will operate the keypad, which moves the camera and activates the mute button. When someone is speaking, camera movements should be kept to a minimum.
    The following are some additional rules participants should obey.
  • All pagers and cell phones are turned off at the door. If necessary, the planner can arrange for phones to be answered and messages taken for the participants during the videoconference.
  • Raise a hand to ask a question or make a comment, rather than interrupt the speaker.
  • Speak naturally into the microphone while looking into the camera.
  • Avoid shuffling papers or tapping your fingers near the microphone.
  • Avoid side conversations. The mute button can be used to mask ambient noise.
  • Movements are exaggerated on camera and can become irritating. Sitting still sends a clear picture to the far end.
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Position Statement 52: In Support of Maximum Diversion of Persons with Serious Mental Illness from the Criminal Justice System

Statement of Policy

Mental Health America (MHA) supports maximum diversion from the criminal justice system for all persons accused of crimes for whom voluntary mental health or substance use treatment is a reasonable alternative to confinement or other criminal sanctions. MHA urges the utilization of diversion programs at the earliest possible phase of the criminal process, preferably before booking or arraignment. Conversely, MHA supports minimizing the use or threat of use of criminal sanctions to compel mental health treatment. These principles apply with equal force to adults and juveniles.

MHA supports the long-term goal of integrating persons living with mental and substance use conditions into a culturally competent community-based mental health care system focused on consumer empowerment and quality of life, and aimed at their recovery. Over the past two decades, criminal justice diversion programs have emerged as a viable and humane alternative to the criminalization and inappropriate criminal detention of individuals with mental and substance use conditions. Diversion programs benefit the diverted persons, the criminal justice system and the community.

Criminal behavior, including violent behavior, is overwhelmingly caused by complex factors other than mental health conditions.[1]  However, some persons with mental health conditions commit crimes because of our failure, due to lack of funding and other resources, to provide them with appropriate and timely mental health services. Thus, one of the most effective “diversion” strategies that any jurisdiction can employ is to ensure that persons with mental health conditions receive treatment before they interact with any part of the criminal justice system.[2]  Additionally, it is crucial that programs designed to divert persons with mental health conditions from the criminal justice system do not divert resources from the already under-funded mental health system.   Simply put, no one should be incented to commit a crime in order to receive mental health services .

Another critical issue for individuals with a mental or substance use condition is that of coercion. With a deeper understanding of the role of recovery in the successful treatment of mental health or substance use problems, MHA is wary of the expanded use of the criminal justice system, with its increased focus on persons with mental illness, as a substitute for voluntary community-based treatment that mental health advocates have consistently sought. Avoiding the sense of dependency and helplessness that comes from linking treatment to incarceration is at the core of the need for effective diversion.

MHA encourages local and state affiliates, consumers, stakeholders, and other advocates to support the development of diversion strategies that promote police officer training, community engagement, and early intervention in an effort to keep persons with mental and substance use conditions out of the criminal justice system.

An estimated 11.4 million people are admitted to local jails every year in the United States. On any given day, about 2 million people can be found incarcerated in U.S. prisons or jails.[3] In 2005, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that more than half of all prison and jail inmates had a mental health problem.[4]   These estimates were based upon personal interviews with prisoners and used broad measures of mental illness.  Research also shows that 16% of those in state prisons and local jails have a serious mental illness, as do 7% of those in federal prisons.[5]  People with mental health and substance use conditions are repeatedly arrested for petty offenses.

The Surgeon General’s report entitled Mental Health: Cultural, Race, and Ethnicity showed that disparities existed in mental health systems for persons of diverse populations and that mental and substance use conditions exacted a greater toll on their overall health. [6] national indicators show that persons of color are disproportionately represented in both adult and juvenile justice systems. Studies also show that while there are few, if any, differences in the nature and scope of crimes committed by persons of color, their rates of arrest, prosecution, and incarceration, as well as the length of sentences, are substantially higher than the Caucasian population.

Fewer than 5 percent of jails polled nationwide in 1992 had procedures to divert inmates with mental health conditions from the criminal justice system into the mental health treatment system. Since then, the establishment of jail diversion programs has become more commonplace. There have been 294 jail diversion programs in operation since 2003, 17 of which were funded by SAMSHA’s Center for Mental Health Services.

Another form of diversion has also arisen by way of Mental Health Courts. In 2000, The Mental Health Courts Program was created by "America's Law Enforcement and Mental Health Project" (Public Law 106-515). In 2003, the Bureau of Justice Assistance funded 23 of these courts which helped to relieve over-burdened criminal courts that ordinarily handled all cases relating to mental health. Participants in a study focusing on mental health courts reported improved quality of life and demonstrated greater gains in developing independent living skills and reduced drug problems and new criminal activity. Today, more than 150  250 of these courts exist, and more are being planned. In 2004 Congress enacted the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (MIOTCRA) providing additional funding for criminal justice diversion.   In 2013, the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act (S.162) was introduced to reauthorize and improve MIOTRCA.

The extraordinary human and financial costs to the criminal justice system argue strongly that effective diversion may produce better results at a lower cost. Community-based programs for people with mental illness and substance use conditions would help to provide not only appropriate treatment for them, but would decrease duration or even prevent incarceration altogether. Four SAMHSA-sponsored jail diversion programs have recently released data showing the most well-controlled cost-effectiveness results to date. Costs were defined as those from all court appearances, public defenders’ and prosecutors’ offices, the police, and incarceration days.[7]  Mental health courts reduce both arrest rates and days of incarceration.[8]

Mental health problems among the population of persons in the nation’s jails and prisons are serious and growing. The Los Angeles County Jail, Cook County Jail in Chicago and New York City’s Riker’s Island “each hold more people with mental illness on any given day than any hospital in the United States.” The Los Angeles County Jail has for a number of years been declared to be the largest mental health facility in the country. In an era of deinstitutionalization, jails and prisons have become de facto mental health treatment facilities.[9]

People with mental and substance use conditions in jails and prisons have complex and challenging needs.  Problems include:  (1)  mental health services in prisons and jails are inadequate; (2) persons with mental illnesses are frequently victims of crimes within prisons; (3) the environment in prisons and jails worsens many mental health conditions; and (4)  left untreated, persons with serious mental health conditions who are incarcerated for minor crimes may commit additional crimes which will result in extended prison time leading to a cycle of suffering, violence and wasted criminal justice resources.[10]   Almost 75% have co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, and many have been imprisoned for crimes which have arisen from untreated mental illness.

Call to Action

The increasing involvement of persons with mental health and substance use conditions in the criminal justice system has enormous fiscal, public safety, health and human costs. Diverting individuals with mental and substance use conditions away from jails and prisons and toward more appropriate and culturally competent community-based mental health care has emerged as an important component of national, state and local strategies to provide effective mental health care; to enhance public safety by making jail and prison space available for violent offenders; to provide judges and prosecutors with alternatives to incarceration; to provide specialty training to law enforcement and probation personnel to deal effectively with mental health and substance use issues; and to reduce the social cost of providing inappropriate mental health services or no services at all. The success of diversion programs in communities across the country is generating genuine excitement and hope that real progress can be made in meeting the challenge of criminalization and reducing the toll it exacts on these individuals, their families, service agencies and the criminal justice system.

Mental Health America recognizes that the development of diversion programs involves negotiation between the mental health system, law enforcement officers, public defenders, prosecutors, court personnel and others in the criminal justice system. Each community must reach consensus on the type of diversion program appropriate for that community and the severity of offenses that may disqualify offenders from participation in the program. However, the principal consideration should be assuring that careful consideration is given to diversion of persons with serious mental and substance use conditions despite their charges, which may be more reflective of stigma than the real severity of the offence.

Mental Health America supports diversion at the earliest possible point.  The Sequential Intercept Model has gained wide acceptance in the criminal justice and behavioral health field as a mechanism for decriminalizing persons with serious mental health conditions.[11]

There are two major kinds of jail diversion programs: pre-arrest and post-arrest.

Pre-Arrest (“Pre-Booking”) Diversion Strategies

Pre-arrest strategies typically focus on the law enforcement officers that are often the first point of contact with persons with mental or substance use conditions in crisis. Since their initial interactions with persons with mental or substance use conditions are so critical to determining the situation’s outcome (i.e., whether or not an individual is to be jailed), pre-arrest jail diversion strategies rely heavily on helping police become knowledgeable regarding the nature of mental and substance use conditions, provide tools to de-escalate crisis situations and provide options for treatment alternatives to incarceration that are available in the community.

Examples of pre-arrest strategies include: police training to recognize the signs of mental illness and substance use; deployment of a mobile crisis response team that provide assistance and support to police and the individual; and transportation to treatment rather than jail.  One of the nationally-recognized and widely-used models for police training and intervention is call Crisis Intervention Team or CIT[12].  Culturally competency is a critical component of such training, to avoid the unequal treatment that comes from stereotyping racial and cultural groups.

Post-Arrest (“Post-Booking”) Diversion Strategies

Post-booking diversion programs are the more common type of jail diversion program in the United States. After formal charges have been filed, post-booking programs screen individuals to determine the presence of mental or substance use conditions; negotiate with prosecutors, attorneys, courts and mental health providers to dispose of the case without additional jail time; and link the individual with mental health treatment as a condition of a reduction in charges, deferred prosecution or dismissal.

Mental health courts are an example of a post-booking jail diversion program. Mental health courts hear cases involving persons with mental health conditions who have been charged with non-violent crimes. They divert these individuals away from jail or prison by negotiating a treatment program that might include group or day services, psychotropic medication, case management or inpatient hospitalization in order to restore defendants to stable functioning in their communities.[13]  Today there is an enormous variety of mental health courts including ones that focus on veterans, women, persons with co-occurring substance abuse problems and juveniles. [14]

Diversion Works

Studies show that diversion of persons with mental and substance use conditions accused of misdemeanor crimes into appropriate, community-based mental health treatment programs allows for better long-term results for offenders.[15]  Such programs reduce arrests, jail days, hospital stays and total criminal justice expenditures. [16]

Dismissal of Charges

Mental Health America believes that successfully completed pre-booking and/or post-booking diversion programs should provide for dismissal of criminal charges. In the case of post-booking diversion, jeopardy of re-involvement in the criminal justice system should be limited in accordance with the criminal justice standards in that jurisdiction. As a guideline, conditions of deferred prosecution, deferred sentence or probation ordinarily should not exceed one year.

Implementing Effective Diversion Strategies

Timely and accurate mental health screening and evaluation is the single most critical element in a successful diversion program. More treatment resources are desperately needed. Communities must develop services that meet the needs of mental health and substance use consumers. In addition to significant increases in public investment, services must be integrated across public and private agencies. Individual treatment plans should be focused on consumer recovery and choice and should include: mental and physical healthcare, case management, appropriate housing, supportive education, integrated substance abuse treatment, and psychosocial services, in the least restrictive environment possible.

Diversion programs also require the development of community coalitions, including but not limited to partnerships between criminal justice, mental health and substance abuse treatment agencies.  Judicial leadership has been particularly instrumental in creating and expanding criminal justice diversion programs across the country, helping to increase public support and funding for alternatives to incarceration.  Criminal justice and corrections agencies should be encouraged to develop new sources of funding to expand diversion programs. Coalitions should also be reflective of the diverse make-up of the community. Joint mobile outreach services such as crisis intervention teams are a key element in successful partnering between mental health, substance abuse treatment and law enforcement agencies, with effective diversion to an appropriate treatment plan the critical measure of success. Consumers of mental health and substance abuse services and family members affected by mental illness or substance use need to be included in such coalitions to assure that the real barriers to effective mental health and substance abuse treatment in that community are addressed.

These community coalitions need to reach out to all criminal justice system personnel to ensure that comprehensive culturally competent training is provided at all levels to deal with issues of mental illness and substance use, wherever and whenever they occur. Mental health associations should reach out to or create such coalitions whenever possible. Effective diversion from the earliest point of contact with the criminal justice system of a person with a serious mental illness or serious emotional disorder should be a centerpiece of all mental health planning, with the aim of promoting recovery from mental illness and as an end to all unnecessary use of criminal sanctions.

Effective Period

The Mental Health America Board of Directors approved this policy on September 15, 2013. It is reviewed as required by the Mental Health America Public Policy Committee.

Expiration: December 31, 2018

[1] See Mental Health America’s Policy Number 72:  “Violence: A Community Mental Health Perspective”

[2] See Mental Health America’s Policies Numbered 11-16 on the need to transform our mental health system.

[3] Government Printing Office, Census of Jails, 1999. NCJ186633. Washington, DC (2001).

[4] Bureau of Justice Statistics, Special Report, Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Washington, DC (2006).

[5] Bureau of Justice Statistics, Special Report,  Mental Health and Treatment of Inmates and Probationers  (1999)

[6]  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Culture, Race, and Ethnicity A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health (2001).

[7] Cowel,l A.J., Broner, N., & Dupont, R., “The Cost-Effectiveness of Criminal Justice Diversion Programs for People with Serious Mental Illness Co-Occurring with Substance Abuse: Four Case Studies,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 20 (3): 292-315 (2004).

[8] “Effect of Mental Health Courts on Arrests and Jail Days” Steadman, et al.,  Arch Gen.Psychiatry 68(2):167-72, doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.134 (2010).

[9] Butterfield, F. (1998, March 5). “Prisons Replace Hospitals for the Nation’s Mentally ill,” New York Times, A1. Testimony of Dr. Arthyr Lynch, Director of Mental Health Services for the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, before the Subcommittee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Service, April 22, 1998.

[10] See Mental Health America Policy Number 56: “Mental Health Treatment in Correctional Facilities”

[11] Munetz, M.R. & Griffin, P.A., “Use of the Sequential Intercept Model as an Approach to Decriminalization of People with Serious Mental illness” Psychiatric Services  57(4):544-9 (2006).

[12] Research and other materials about Crisis Intervention Teams, often called “the Memphis Model” are gathered at

[13] See Mental Health America Policy Number 53: “Mental Health Courts”

[14] “Adult Mental Health Court Database” SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral health and Justice Transformation,;  Callahan, et al., “A National Survey of U.S. Juvenile Mental Health Courts,” Psychiatric Services 63:130 (2012).

[15] Resources on various types of diversion programs and the research demonstrating their effectiveness is available from SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation,

[16] Steadman, et al., “Effect of Mental Health Courts on Arrest and Jail Days” Arch. Gen. Psych. 68:167 (2011)

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A parapharyngeal abscess is a deep neck abscess. Symptoms include fever, sore throat, odynophagia, and swelling in the neck down to the hyoid bone. Diagnosis is by CT. Treatment is antibiotics and surgical drainage.

The parapharyngeal (pharyngomaxillary) space is lateral to the superior pharyngeal constrictor and medial to the masseter muscle. This space connects to every other major fascial neck space and is divided into anterior and posterior compartments by the styloid process. The posterior compartment contains the carotid artery, internal jugular vein, and numerous nerves. Infections in the parapharyngeal space usually originate in the tonsils or pharynx, although local spread from odontogenic sources and lymph nodes may occur.

Abscess swelling can compromise the airway. Posterior space abscess can erode into the carotid artery or cause septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein (Lemierre syndrome).

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Most patients have fever, sore throat, odynophagia, and swelling in the neck down to the hyoid bone.

Anterior space abscesses cause trismus and induration along the angle of the mandible, with medial bulging of the tonsil and lateral pharyngeal wall.

Posterior space abscesses cause swelling that is more prominent in the posterior pharyngeal wall. Trismus is minimal. Posterior abscesses may involve structures within the carotid sheath, possibly causing rigors, high fever, bacteremia, neurologic deficits, and massive hemorrhage caused by carotid artery rupture.

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Nobody has a clue: Voters to have the last laugh in Uttar Pradesh!
The space is heating up for the elections to be held next year and political parties are trying to find the perfect caste combination to trump others. After a decade, the contest is three-cornered. The UP elections in 2007 and 2012 were essentially a fight between regional parties SP and BSP. Congress, revved up by strategist Prashant Kishor, is also trying to make a big impact.

It's clear that it's a do or die battle for Amit Shah after having lost Bihar. A loss again in the Hindi heartland could see him lose his job, as anti-Modi camps are waiting to strike back with their pointed knives. The elections will also have an impact on BJP ruled states Gujarat, MP, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan which will go to polls before next Lok Sabha polls.

TV channel ABP News published opinion poll results this week carried out by CSDS-Lokniti. The poll predicts a hung assembly in UP with SP ahead, followed by BJP and BSP. ABP News also carried out another two polls on UP - one in March with Nielsen and another just few days ago in August with Cicero.

Interestingly, all these agencies have given different results exhibiting the complexity of the UP elections. The poll in March predicted a hung assembly with BSP ahead (185 seats). The poll in the beginning of August by Cicero put BJP ahead in the race to form government (no seats projected) with 32% vote share.

While it can be said that between March and now, things have changed, leaders leaving BSP on allegations of sale of tickets, Dalit agitation etc., what has changed between August beginning and now? These surveys add to the chaos and confusion.

Party   Nielsen
 BJP 24%  32%  27%
 BSP 31%  24%  26%
 SP 23%  26%  30%
 Congress  11%  7%  5%
 Others 11%  11%  12%

Source: ABP News Surveys

Three clear trends emerge from all these surveys - (i) SP vote share has been consistently rising, (ii) Congress vote share is on a decline (Prashant Kishor impact?) and (iii) Others have maintained their vote share. The SP-led government has done well on most of the fronts and is seen lacking only on the law and order front as per their supporters.

Who will win Uttar Pradesh is a million dollar question about which nobody has a clue. Extrapolating the results from a small sample of voters to the larger state may no longer yield results. Indian elections becoming complex and difficult to predict accurately.

In a state as big and diverse as UP having seven distinct regions each having their own dynamics, unless an agency visits each and every seat (like done by Axis for Bihar), it's impossible to predict accurately the number of seats.

The voter of UP has always surprised analysts and this time also it could be no different situation. In the 2007 elections, BSP's victory was a surprise for everybody as polls were depicting a hung assembly. In 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Congress won 21 seats, while it had never won more than 10 seats since 1989.

In 2012 assembly elections, Akhilesh won an absolute majority when polls again predicted a hung assembly. In 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party did not dream that it would get 73 seats.

These are early days and many voters could still be undecided. They would firm up their choice nearer to the elections and decide based on candidate selection by the parties. Ultimately, the voter of UP will have the last laugh because "Yeh jo public hai, Yeh sab jaanti hai".

The UP elections have all the elements of a Bollywood potpourri where the leadership theory will again be put to test. Will BJP go leaderless like in Maharashtra, Haryana, J&K and Jharkhand where it won riding on Modi wave or will it announce a CM candidate? Can it pull off a win without naming a CM candidate?

Can Akhilesh score a double victory? Can Maya lure Muslims and form an unbeatable Dalit-Muslim combination? For answers to all these questions we have to wait till early next year….

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明 佚名 鳥販圖 軸
Bird peddler

Unidentified Artist
Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
late 15th–early 16th century
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Image: 63 1/4 x 38 3/4 in. (160.7 x 98.4 cm) Overall with mounting: 9 ft. 6 5/8 in. × 46 3/8 in. (291.1 × 117.8 cm) Overall with knobs: 9 ft. 6 5/8 in. × 50 1/2 in. (291.1 × 128.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase, Oscar L. Tang Family and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gifts, 1998
Accession Number:
Not on view
A jaunty bird peddler is surrounded by six young boys who admire their recent acquisitions or greedily eye other temptations. In addition to various species of birds, his portable display also features a rich assortment of intricate cages, gilt perches, ceramic dishes, lacquer jars, and other paraphernalia required to care for the birds, crickets, and two white rabbits offered for sale.

The subject of peddlers first became popular during the Southern Song dynasty (1127–79), when paintings typically showed a rustic knickknack merchant offering his wares to a group of country urchins. During the conscious revival of Song academic styles sponsored by the Ming court, this subject was transformed from a genre image of daily life to an elegant fantasy set within the grounds of an aristocratic household. Here, an elegantly dressed servant, acting the role of peddler, offers a specialized selection of expensive wares to the pampered male children of the family. Such idealized images functioned not merely as entertaining decoration but also as auspicious emblems of a well-governed empire enjoying the rewards of peace and prosperity.
Inscription: No artist’s inscription, signature or seal

Collectors’ seals

Wanyan Jing 完顏璟 (1168–1208)
羣玉中秘 (spurious)

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금동반가사유상 삼국
金銅半跏思惟像 三國
Pensive bodhisattva

Three Kingdoms period (57 B.C.–A.D. 676)
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Gilt bronze
H. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm); W. 4 in. (10.2 cm); D. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
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Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 2003
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On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 233
Images of the pensive bodhisattva became prevalent in East Asia between the fifth and eighth centuries. In Korea, the type emerged as an important Buddhist icon during the sixth and seventh centuries, particularly in the kingdoms of Baekje and Silla. This seated figure is among the best-preserved examples. It is infused with a subtle yet palpable energy that is articulated in such details as the pliant and lifelike fingers and toes. His crown is topped with an orb-and-crescent motif, indicating Central Asian influence.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Meryl Streep has showcased her musical talents in several films, but her abilities take a purposeful turn for the worse in "Florence Foster Jenkins."

The triple Oscar-winner portrays the real-life title character, a World War Two-era New York socialite whose passion for music far outweighed her singing skills.

"Yeah, she aimed high," said Streep, who had voice lessons while a teenager.

"She picked the most difficult arias in the coloratura canon, absolutely. And she screwed it up every time, but she knew them. She knew how they should be done and she really did try her very best. I discovered when listening to her recordings that it wasn't how bad it was, it was how close it came to being almost good and that's what made you want as an audience to root for her and then be disappointed."

The movie, opening in U.S. movie theaters on Friday, follows Jenkins around 1944 as, at age 76, she prepares for her first big public performance at a sold-out Carnegie Hall.

Weak from a nearly half-decade battle with syphilis, Jenkins is determined to deliver her best at the concert, but is blindly unaware that people's interest in her is due to her lack of skill. Her philandering husband, played by Hugh Grant, has been hiding the truth from her, allowing his wife to think she is an operatic wonder.

"In all the characters I've played, I don't think, except maybe for (American chef) Julia Child, I've ever played anybody with so much joie de vivre... She just soldiered on in spite of it all and that was very touching to me," Streep said.

Grant said that, unbeknown to Streep, people on the film set had a "bad-ometer" scale on which to judge the actress's performance.

"Sometimes she would do bad singing that was like 2 out of 10 bad and sometimes she would crank it up to like 12, and those were very difficult to cope with, particularly if I was having to do some very serious, stern, protective scene at the same time," said Grant.

The film is an ode to following your passion no matter what people think of it.

For Streep, 67, there is one part of her life she powers through, even though she might be lackluster.

"I'm not that good of a cook, but I'm obliged to do it at my house. Nobody else does."

(Reporting by Bob Mezan; Editing by Jill Serjeant and David Gregorio)


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Reuters – Rap star Flavor Flav was arrested on Thursday in Las Vegas on suspicion of driving under the influence, after he was pulled over for speeding and was found with marijuana and an open container of alcohol in his BMW, a Nevada state trooper said.

Flavor Flav, who rose to fame in the 1980s as a rapper with the politically oriented group Public Enemy, was traveling 73 miles per hour (117 kph) in a 45-mile-per-hour (72-kph) zone on Interstate 15 when he was stopped shortly after midnight, said Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman Trooper Loy Hixson.

The 56-year-old rapper, who was born William Drayton Jr., was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, marijuana possession, having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle, driving with a suspended vehicle registration and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, Hixson said.

He posted bail of $7,000 to be released from jail later on Thursday, Hixson said.

A spokesman for the Long Island, New York-born Flavor Flav declined to immediately comment on the arrest.

Results are pending on a blood alcohol test to determine how intoxicated Flavor Flav might have been, Hixson said.

Flavor Flav's attention-grabbing wardrobe features a giant clock that he wears around his neck and a Viking helmet.

The rapper in the last decade has starred on cable television in a number of reality shows and comedies.

Public Enemy, which also features Chuck D, most recently released a studio album in 2012 with "The Evil Empire of Everything." Its biggest-selling albums include "Fear of a Black Planet" and "It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back."


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Metroid II: Return of Samus is the second game of the Metroid franchise, and is the original sequel to the 1986 NES title Metroid. It was released for the Game Boy in 1991. Chronologically, its events follow those of the Metroid Prime: Trilogy and precede those of Super Metroid.

Story continuity

Although Return of Samus was originally intended to be a sequel to Metroid, several newer games take place between the two titles. The entire Metroid Prime series takes place between Metroid and Return of Samus, placing the game sixth in the timeline.

Samus lands on the desolate planet SR388, the Metroid home world. Her mission is to eliminate every Metroid on the planet. Inside the labyrinthian cave system of the planet, she encounters many different hostile life forms, such as Hornoads and the Metroids. Alpha Metroids, Gamma Metroids, Zeta Metroids, and even Omega Metroids. As Samus proceeds deeper into the planet, she is forced to eliminate every Metroid. When she finally reaches the farthest depths of the caverns and she finds a giant Queen Metroid. After a difficult battle with the Queen, Samus continues to search for the last remaining Metroid, only to discover a Metroid Hatchling. Rather than attacking her, it follows her, believing Samus is its maternal figure. Seeing the potential for scientific discoveries, Samus decides not to terminate it. She returns to her ship by way of an escape cavern that is cleared out by the baby Metroid.

After Samus's mission on SR388 is over, she brings the last surviving Metroid to the Ceres Space Colony to have scientists harness its power. After it is stolen by Ridley, Samus returns to Zebes to find it. This story is told in the 1994 SNES title Super Metroid.

Based on the amount of time in which the player beats the game, there are three different possible endings while the credits play.
The possible endings are:

  • 5 or more hours: Samus keeps running.
  • Between 3 to 5 hours: Samus curls into a ball, jumps, and lands.
  • Under 3 hours: Samus curls into a ball, jumps, and lands wearing a bikini.

See Credits: Metroid II: Return of Samus for more information.

  • Return of Samus is the only main Metroid game not to have an exclusive game page on the official Nintendo press site (username: guest, password: nintendo).
  • Return of Samus is also the only 2D game that was not developed by Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto.

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Metroid Recon's Complete Map of Metroid II's SR388


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Men Shorts: Natural Selection

Reel Affirmations 2006

Review by Sean Bugg

Rating: starstarstar (3 out of 5)

Saturday, 10/21/2006, 4:00 PM
Shorts presentation, $9 at Lincoln Theatre

EVERY GAY RELATIONSHIP has its strong and weak points, although the ”Natural Selection” shorts programs tends toward the latter. Hey, the worse the relationship, the better the drama, right?

The Underminer ( ), a short version of Mike Albo’s book, explicates just how vicious your best friend can be. Or is it being vicious to yourself? Either way, everyone will recognize the friend who always has an unkind word to say.

In Proteus Point ( ), curly-headed straight guy Jason may be wavering between orientations. His fiancé is annoyed with the attention he pays to his gay best friend, and demands that the third wheel be disinvited from their camping trip. In between are a few funny moments — an elementary school play based on The Seventh Seal among them — but mostly it’s telling a story through lots of pensive, drawn-out stares and gazes.

When credit collection officer Dwayne calls his latest deadbeat in Rugburn ( ), he gets more than he bargained for: his deadbeat ex, Jeff. Things start off rather interestingly, but the concept doesn’t have a lot of flesh on it, and it plays out for too long.

Hard Parts ( ) is a story of three people: a straight woman, her gay best friend, and her ex-husband. Of course, her husband’s secretly dating her best friend. Oh, and her new fiancé is as flaming as they come. As she tries to guide him through the act of cunnilingus, he pops up, alarmed, ”I think you have a wart.” She replies, ”That’s my clitoris.” The rest isn’t quite as funny, but everybody learns a very important lesson about life and love. So, that’s okay then.

Seeing You in Circles ( ) is another threesome, all gay this time, but focusing on a man who brings his cute new boyfriend to a birthday dinner for his ex-boyfriend. Because things like that always work out to the emotional benefit of everyone involved. Well acted, but not as compelling as you would hope.

The big surprise of the program is Hustler WP ( ), about a cute, racist, skinhead hustler and his big, black and gay best friend. Did I mention they both live in Chelsea? Of course they do. It sounds really offensive — and it actually kind of is — but the bubbleheaded innocuousness of the racism and the obvious affection they both have for each other make this a deeply weird and enjoyable little comedy. — SB

Men Shorts: Natural Selection
Sean Bugg is Editor Emeritus for Metro Weekly.


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Each country has its own varieties of silk cocoon. Cambodia and Vietnam have gold cocoon feeding on the mulberry. India has Tussar, Endi/Eri, Muga varieties. Siem Reap is the gateway town to Angkor Park, where each of the monuments show many narratives from Hindu and Buddhist mythology. The carvings on the walls and the sculptures in the monuments speak volumes about the Angkor traditional textiles. But the drapes, styles etc. of the textiles on these carving and sculptures do not relate to the texture, colors, materials, vibrancy etc. of the textiles. Siem Reap the city of historic temples is the major tourists' attraction, as the world heritage site of Angkor Park. The footfall coming to Siem Reap makes the city the right place to have a textiles museum showcasing traditions from six countries.
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A walk through the galleries of this wonderfully conceptualized museum, gives a feel of connectivity between the mighty rivers Ganga and Mekong. A visit to this museum is an opportunity to experience the textiles treasures from India, Cambodia and other members States of Mekong region. This is an excellent effort, not only at showcasing our vibrant textiles traditions but also at nurturing those traditions by providing a larger audience an insight into the traditional skills and textile crafts.

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It is a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to visit this wonderful museum. I wish a bright and successful path ahead.

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It was quite fine experience for me to see many countries textiles. I hope I’ll come again.

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"We believe there are numerous applications for cameras that are large in format but very thin and highly flexible," he adds.
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The IEEE 802 Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Standards Committee (LMSC), at its 11-15 March plenary, approved the formation of a new technical advisory group (TAG) dedicated to addressing radio regulations as they impact the committee's groups developing wireless standards.

As IEEE 802-11 (Wireless LANs), IEEE 802-15 (Wireless Personal Area Networks) and IEEE 802-16 (Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks) standards gain worldwide acceptance, and as each group continues to address evolving needs of the wireless industry, coordination and knowledge of radio regulations are a vital part of the IEEE 802 LMSC's work.

The overarching objective of the IEEE 802-18 Advisory Group is to act as the 802 radio regulatory expert and interface with national regulatory bodies, such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as well as with international regulatory bodies, such as the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Because the group will operate by seeking a balanced consensus position in an open technical environment, its advice is expected to be carefully considered by regulatory bodies.

The Advisory Group will be meeting with the IEEE 802-11 and IEEE 802-15 groups at its interim meeting on May 13-17, in Sydney, Australia. Further, it is in the process of developing its charter that will be presented for approval at the next Plenary, July 8-12, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee develops Local Area Network standards and Metropolitan Area Network standards. Its most widely used standards are for the Ethernet, Token Ring, Wireless LAN, Bridging and Virtual Bridged LANs. An individual Working Group provides the focus for each area. More information about each group can be found at

Implantable MEMS and Big Brother -Resistance is Futile?

According to Instat/ MDR, Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) manufactures the VeriChip, a microchip that is already part of a pager being used by the California Department of Corrections as a means for tracking prisoners. Such an end-use could be viewed as useful and fairly benign. The real news, however, is the impending availability of their next-generation device - an implantable version that is comprised of both a microchip and a MEMS biosensor.

In just a few months time, ADS expects to receive FDA approval of Digital Angel. The sensor chip can be implanted under the skin of the forearm in just seconds, and will continuously monitor key body parameters including pulse, temperature and blood glucose. The company is generally promoting it as a means to provide identification and important medical information in the event of an emergency. But that's only useful if all police, rescue and medical personnel have the scanner necessary to read the information on the chip. And that's not likely to happen until the use of these chips becomes ubiquitous. It's a classic case of the chicken and the egg.

What the company has quietly underscored is their real commercial intent: people tracking. The kicker is the addition of GPS capability to the sensor chip, which will allow ongoing monitoring of the person with the implanted device 24 hours a day, seven days a week, anywhere, anytime. The company is promoting it as a safety device and says it has signed a deal to distribute the chip in Brazil as means to prevent (or at least reduce) the rampant kidnappings that occur there.

Needless to say, it's only a matter of time before privacy advocates, civil libertarians and even religious groups jump all over this. From the Instat Analyst's point of view, the technology should be raising a lot of questions: who is doing the tracking, for what purpose and who has access to this data? Are there certain jobs, such as those that are high risk or could impact national security, which could justify the mandatory use of such a device? What sort of policies and regulations should be put in place in regard of its use and should they be implemented at the local, state, federal or international level?

There will be many, of course, who embrace the technology as "state of the art peace of mind." But for those who do not see it that way - we can only wonder at some point down the road whether resistance will indeed be futile?

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Jeff Blank, AllCoNet's supervisor of Microcomputing & Networking, stated, "A traditional fiber network for Allegany County would cost an estimated $180 M, whereas a wireless network will cost only $3 to 5 M. The ROI time frame for the wireless alternative was too compelling to ignore."

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·  Embedded WLAN in notebook PCs is finally taking hold in the business space. Notebooks with embedded Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b) finally hit the market in noticeable volumes in the first quarter of 2002, from the likes of IBM, Toshiba, HP and Fujitsu. Agere and Actiontec, two of the main Wi-Fi mini PCI suppliers to PC OEMs, benefited from this uptake in embedded Wi-Fi.

·  Asia Pacific and Europe are increasingly taking away geographic share of WLAN shipments from North America. Hot regions include Japan and South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, the Nordic European countries and the UK.

·  The high end enterprise segment of the WLAN market performed poorly in the first quarter, as shipments of enterprise-class AP solutions greatly slacked behind those of lower end, sub-$200 AP solutions. In-Stat/MDR believes that one reason for this slowdown was the significant tightening of corporate budgets. However, another significant reason may be that many large and medium businesses are waiting to deploy hardware that supports both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi5 (IEEE 802-11a), in order to be able to support 802-11b, anticipated 802-11g, as well as the increasing number of 802-11a clients. So, scalability and potential technology obsolescence weighed heavily on the minds of corporate WLAN buyers in the first part of 2002.

·  Much of the growth in business WLAN shipments was primarily driven by low cost providers that were also strong in the home market, including Linksys, Buffalo, D-Link and Netgear. In-Stat/MDR believes low cost APs are being deployed in SOHOs, small businesses and in many branch or remote offices of large businesses, as well as in individual departments within large corporations. These APs are widely available in retail and e-tail, at sub-$200 prices.

·  The residential Wi-Fi market continued to drive overall WLAN volume growth. The growth was heavily spurred on by the popularity of low cost wireless broadband gateway products (combo AP and router devices often with multiple Ethernet ports and optional print servers), increasingly available from a variety of vendors, at continually falling prices.

For the first quarter, non-trivial shipments of 802-11a NICs and APs were recorded, from the likes of Intel, SMC, Netgear, Proxim, D-Link and Actiontec. Although many of these 802-11a pioneers had announced that they were shipping in 4Q2001, most did not have product ready to ship until 1Q2002, needing additional time to refine products.

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'Deadpool' named world's highest-grossing R-rated movie ever

Los Angeles: Ryan Reynolds's superhero film 'Deadpool', which released in India last month, has officially raked in more than USD 745 million worldwide, passing 2003 film 'The Matrix Reloaded' (USD 742.1 million) to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie in box office history.

Directed by Tim Miller, the film tells the story of Wade Wilson (Reynolds), who hunts the man who gave him an accelerated healing factor and also a scarred physical appearance.

In North America, 'Deadpool' has a total of $349.4 million, and it is expected to surpass 'American Sniper' ($350.1 million) to take second place on the domestic list of highest-grossing R-rated movies, reports

'The Passion of the Christ' still stands as number one position with a collection of $370.8 million from domestic ticket sales.

Back in February, 'Deadpool' shattered expectations, opening to $132.4 million over three days and $152.2 million over the four-day Presidents' Day weekend.

Not only did that earn the film the biggest R-rated opening of all time, becoming the first R movie to pass $100 million in its opening weekend, but 'Deadpool' had the biggest February opening in box office history.

An R-rating, implying restricted viewership, according to Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, is accorded to movies which can be watched by those under 17 only when accompanied by parent or adult guardian.

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