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Team player Oniya dead after collapsing on field

PETALING JAYA: T Team skipper David Faramola Oniya of Nigeria has died after collapsing on the cartier replica ring field during a friendly against Super League side Kelantan at the Sultan Mohd IV Stadium in Kota Baru on Saturday.

Club chief executive officer Syahrizan Mohd Zain said that the T Team centreback collapsed barely three minutes into the game cartier ring replica online and was taken to the Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab II (HRPZ II) nearby.

He said that the 30 year old Oniya, who was playing in his first season with the Premier League outfit, had barely touched the ball and they were surprised to see him lying on the ground.

was no hard running and it cartier love replica ring pink gold was a slow tempo match. It only a friendly game. The match was called off in the 60th minute when we received a call from the hospital that Oniya had died, said Syahrizan.

Kelantan FA manager Azman Ibrahim said they will assist their counterparts in making the necessary arrangements to send Oniya remains home.

In March, a 17 year old student died from bleeding in the brain after he collapsed following a football training session in his school in Banting. The teenager complained of headache during the training and asked to be replaced. The boy collapsed as he was walking to the side of the field.
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Jodi Picoult and daughter Samantha van Leer on new novel

Jodi Picoult is teaming up with daughter Samantha van Leer once again for a new young van cleef and arpels necklace knock off adult novel called "Off the Page." The fake van cleef and arpel necklace mother and daughter duo explained how they worked together on the project on "CBS This Morning" Thursday.

Van Leer first had the idea for the novel when she was 13 years old, daydreaming in a French class.

"I was starting to think about books and what happens when we close a book, because I just couldn't believe that the characters stay frozen in time and waiting for us to return to breathe the life back into them," van Leer said. "When she told me I thought, my daughter is just brilliant," Picoult said.

Picoult and van Leer worked together to write the book. "We sat side by side and would speak the entire book outloud," van Leer said.

Back and forth, countering each other Van Cleef necklace white gold fake with ideas, they wrote every line together. "There were moments when we were both stumbling over each other to get out this brilliant idea we had, and then we'd realize we were saying the exact same thing," van Leer said.

But, as can be expected, working together could be challenging and occasionally tense. "She would really challenge me," Picoult said. "And I think I challenged her, too."

While Picoult knows she has more experience, but she had to respect the strong instincts of her daughter. She calls the novel tighter and more emotional than their first collaboration.
loersertydass Aug 18 '17
patient communication about imminent death

Results: "False optimism about recovery" usually developed during the (first) course of chemotherapy and was most prevalent when the cancer could no longer be seen in the x ray pictures. This optimism tended to vanish when the tumour recurred, but it could develop again, though to a lesser extent, during further courses of chemotherapy. Patients gradually found out the facts about their poor prognosis, partly because of physical deterioration and partly through contact with fellow patients who were in a more advanced stage of the illness and were dying. "False optimism about recovery" was the result an association between doctors' activism and patients' adherence to the treatment calendar and to the "recovery plot," which allowed them not to acknowledge explicitly what they should and could know. The doctor did and did not want to pronounce a "death sentence" and the patient did and did not want to hear it.

Conclusion: Solutions to the problem of collusion between doctor and patient require an active, patient oriented approach from the doctor. Perhaps solutions have to be found outside the doctor patient relationship itself for example, by involving "treatment brokers."

See also Education and debate p 1400Almost all patients with cancer want to know their diagnosis and most patients also want to be informed about the chance that they will be cured.1 This does not imply that these patients want to hear the really bad news about their condition. Many patients, when they fear that their prognosis is rather poor, do not ask for precise information and do not hear it if it is provided by the doctor. 2 3 Our study started from the observation that, after their first course of chemotherapy virtually all patients with small cell lung cancer in a university hospital programme showed a "false optimism" about their recovery, in the sense that the patients' interpretations of their prognosis were considerably more optimistic than those of their doctors. It was not unusual for a patient to tell relatives and friends that the doctor had informed them that they were cured, when actually the cancer was not cured and the life expectancy of these patients was a maximum of two years.

We explored the reasons why virtually all these patients showed this false optimism. This topic is important because patients' ideas about their prognosis affect the choices they make regarding their treatment and end of life care. 4 5 Initially we assumed that features of the communication between doctors (and nurses) and patients had caused this conflict between actual prognosis and what these patients seemed to believe. We examined which aspects of communication between doctors (and nurses) and patients contribute to the fact that patients do not know their poor prognosis. We studied in actual practice what information was given and what information was received and the effects on decision making about treatment and end of life care.6The researcher (AT) initially carried out a study on the role of nurses in decisions concerning euthanasia on a ward for lung disease.7 Only the final phase of euthanasia could be observed, however, because the preparatory process had usually taken place in the outpatient clinic. To determine the handbag Hermes copy moment when patients begin to talk about euthanasia and to investigate comprehensively the subsequent process we also had to make observations in the outpatient clinic. During observations in the clinic it became apparent that patients there rarely dealt with their approaching death. In the waiting room, terminal patients with a maximum life expectancy of a few months said that the doctor had told them that they were cured. They were making plans for the future. In this way, by spending much time observing at the clinic and by focusing on the context of euthanasia, AT discovered the widespread occurrence, familiar to doctors and nurses, of false optimism about recovery. She also discovered that those concerned in the treatment of these patients in daily medical practice considered this false optimism to be a more important problem than euthanasia.

We designed a qualitative observational (ethnographic) study to discover and explore factors in the communication between patients and staff (doctors and nurses) that contribute to false optimism. 8 9 Data were collected through (full time) observation of patients in the lung diseases ward and clinic of a university hospital. After obtaining consent from patients, AT attended their outpatient clinic consultations, had informal conversations with patients and relatives in the clinic waiting room, accompanied them to x ray and other hospital services, and also conducted more formal interviews with patients and staff. On many occasions patients were visited at home, particularly in the terminal phase of their illness when they had stopped attending the outpatient clinic. Funerals were attended and a small number of bereaved spouses interviewed.

In a first stage (1992 4) the researcher (AT) observed a group of 17 patients from initial diagnosis to their death. The size of the sample was based on AT's experience that it was not possible to keep intensive contact with more than about 15 patients and their families. After an initial analysis of the data collected in this first copy handbag Hermes stage, in a second stage (1995 7) a group of 18 patients was observed from initial diagnosis to their death. Data from this second group of copy Hermes Kelly handbag patients confirmed and specified findings from the first group.

From the start of both stages of data collection all new patients with a diagnosis of small cell lung cancer were asked to participate and to give their informed consent. The procedure was approved by the ethics committee. Only two eligible patients were not approached because they avoided any contact with the researcher (AT) from the outset. All approached patients gave their consent to be observed and interviewed and agreed to publication of anonymised extracts of observations and conversations in which they participated. Selection bias cannot be excluded but is unlikely. Participants' ages ranged from 45 to 70 years, and most Hermes handbag fake (28) were men. Most of them were or had been heavy smokers, had attained a relatively low level of education, and had been employed in heavy physical work. All patients had received a first course of chemotherapy. Most of them received further courses after recurrence of the tumour. Radiotherapy was given only as a second or third line treatment in 13 cases, sometimes in combination with chemotherapy.

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Mr G and his wife come to see the consultant for the results.

"We talked on Monday after the bronchoscopy," says the consultant, "and I told you then that I was almost certain that there is a tumour in your lungs. That's how it looked. And, unfortunately, I must tell you that the lab tests have shown that it is cancer."

The consultant pauses, with a serious expression on his face.

Mr G closes his eyes. "How long have I got, doctor?"

"The type of lung cancer you have is very aggressive. It grows very fast. On the other hand and that's an advantage if I may say so this type of cancer is very sensitive to chemotherapy. It can certainly be treated. We can offer you treatment with chemotherapy, and I would definitely advise you to accept it. If we don't do anything, without treatment it could soon be over. In two or three months it could be the end. With therapy you must think in terms of years. It's difficult to say at this moment how long. It depends on so many things, for instance, how you respond to the therapy. We must wait and see how it develops before I can say anything definite."

After a short pause, the consultant continues, "At this moment we don't know whether it has spread. That must be investigated. But I can tell you that malignant cells have been found in the lymph glands. However, whether it has spread or not makes no difference to treatment. The advantage of chemotherapy is that it goes through the whole body."

"I want to try everything," interrupts Mr G, "Everything. I cannot leave her behind." He looks at his wife.

"We'll fight it together," says the consultant encouragingly, "However, I must tell you a few things about the treatment. Chemotherapy has side effects. Your hair will fall out. You might feel sick. But we can give you something for that. The therapy also affects your blood, and before we can give you any new treatment your blood must be healthy again. Treatment will be given in five sessions. Each time you will have chemotherapy."
Northern Territory Elections

All results to be reported on election night are now in. The ABC election website has been switched to post election night mode, which means the fancier predictive tools have been turned off.

There will be no counting on Sunday. New figures will begin to be published on Monday and will be updated on the ABC site.

Informal voting The introduction of optional preferential voting has substantially copy van cleef necklace cut the rate of informal voting. Across the Territory the rate is down from 3.2% in 2012 to 2.0% in 2016. In the six electorates with majority indigenous populatikns the rate of informal voting fell from 4.6% to 1.9%.

(Updated with Monday and Tuesday additional counting, CLP retain Daly, Labor retain Barkly.)

(Wednesday update Labor wins Karama, Terry Mills wins Blain. Braitling, Katherine and Nhulunbuy can not yet be called. The current definite seat totals are Labor 16, Country Liberal 2, Independents 4. )

(Thursday no counting in close electorates today. Any additional postal votes received will be added to the count on Friday. Today updates mainly updated safely Darwin seats. Latest figurs ate the link below.)

(Friday Additional postal counting has seen leads narrow in the remaining doubtful seats of Braitling, Katherine and Nhulunbuy.)

On Monday 5 September re counts will be conducted in replica Van Cleef & Arpels necklace the seats under 100 votes, Blain, Braitling, Karama, Katherine and Nhulunbuy. There will be no counting of new votes in these seats until after the cut off date for postals on Friday 9 September. Unless a significant error is found in the re count, Braitling, Katherine and Nhulunbuy will not be formally decided until next Friday evening.

(FINAL FIGURES Friday 9 September Labor wins Katherine and Braitling, defeating Willem Westra van Holthe and former Chief Minister Adam Giles. This is the first time Labor has won Katherine or an Alice Springs based seat. However, Labor Deputy Leader Lynne Walker has been defeated by seven votes in Nhulunbuy. There is the fake Van Cleef & Arpels necklace possibility that Labor will challenge the result.

With three day to go until polling day in the Northern Territory, there have already been more Early Votes cast than in the entire 2012 pre election period.

(Check out my full NT guide here.)

As at close of business on Tuesday 23 August, a total of 22,234 early votes have been cast at the Territory early voting centres, up 69.9% on votes cast at early voting centres in 2012.

(Update Wednesday 24 August, 25,640 early votes have been cast, up 96%.)

(Update Thursday 25 August, 29,740 early votes have been cast, up 127%.)

In 2012 Early Votes cast within the Territory at early voting centres represented 10.6% of enrolled voters, which turned out to be 13.7% of all votes.

As at 23 August, Early Votes represent 16.4% of enrolled voters, which on the same turnout as in 2016 would represent around 21% of total votes.

(Update 24 August, Early votes represent 18.9% of enrolled voters.)

(Update 25 August, Early votes represent 21.9% of enrolled voters.)

A record number of candidates have nominated to contest this year's Northern Territory election.

A total of 115 candidates will contest the 25 Legislative Assembly electorates, an average of 4.6 candidates per contest.

This is more than the 88 candidates that contested the 2001 elections, and is a new record for average candidates per seat, beating 3.8 when 72 candidates nominated for 19 seats in 1977.

Both Labor and the Country Liberals have nominated 25 candidates, the new 1 Territory Party 13, the Greens 6, Citizens Electoral Council four, Shooters and Fishers Party two, with 39 Independents and one candidate with no affiliation.

The 2016 election will also be the first where the average enrolment per electorate exceeds five thousand voters. enrolment for the election is 135,506, up 11,701 from the 123,805 enrolled voters in 2012. enrolment per electorate rises from 4,952 to 5,420.

Eight candidates have nominated for Daly, beating the previous record of seven for an electorate at a general election. Two electorates have seven candidates (Braitling, Karama) while Casuarina is the only electorate with two candidates.

More details on the nominations below, but a full summary of election results at Northern Territory elections can be found at this page on my ABC election guide.

The table below summarises the nominations per party since the first NT Legislative Assembly election in 1974.
loersertydass Aug 18 '17
Rampant City Crush United

The champions were comprehensively outplayed and beaten by their rivals at the Etihad Stadium, with Sergio Aguero netting twice either side of a Yaya Toure goal before Samir Nasri also got in on the act.

Wayne Rooney's fantastic free kick in the 87th minute made him the top scorer in Manchester derbies with 11 goals, but it was scant consolation for David Moyes' men.

The visitors were missing Robin van Persie due to a groin strain, although David Moyes is hopeful the injury will only keep the Dutchman out for one match. Danny Welbeck and Ashley Young started against City, with Shinji Kagawa benched. Manuel Pellegrini preferred Alvaro Negredo to Edin Dzeko in attack.

The physical style of Negredo and City captain Vincent Kompany upset United almost from the get go and after 16 minutes, the hosts forged ahead.

Poor defending from United down the right led to the opener. Chris Smalling was left one on one with Nasri, and Antonio Valencia failed to track back quickly enough as Aleksandar Kolarov passed his City team mate on the overlap. The Serbian crossed from the left, and Aguero netted with a stylish volley.

Rooney was booked in the Hermes Kelly handbag copy first half for persistent fouling as Kompany won their personal duel.

One minute of added on time at the end of the first half proved crucial for City as they doubled their lead. Pablo Zabaleta won a corner off Young and from Nasri's set piece, Negredo headed down for Toure to force replica Hermes bag the ball home.

Two minutes after the interval, a third City goal arrived. Negredo spun Nemanja Vidic on the left side of the area and knocked a simple cross over for Aguero who had not been tracked to net his second goal of the game.

Kompany made a key contribution as Samir Nasri scored a fourth bag Hermes imitation goal in the 50th minute. Jesus Navas crossed from the right and Kompany drew away the centre backs, allowing Nasri to volley home at the far post.

Tom Cleverley was introduced by Moyes for Young, and United improved. Valencia had a penalty appeal turned down after tussling with Kolarov on the right side of the area.

Patrice Evra headed against the post in the 81st minute, and finally United got on the scoresheet when Rooney flighted home a wonderful free kick three minutes from time.

City and United move on to Capital One Cup assignments in midweek at home to Wigan and Liverpool respectively. City's next league game is away to Aston hermes replica bag Villa next Saturday, when United host West Brom.

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Qaida's Core Weakened

intelligence officials are trying to assess just how dangerous al Qaida still is.

They seem to agree that core al Qaida the group that launched the Sept. 11 attacks and looked to bin Laden for guidance Hermes necklace replica is in trouble. The sessions went on for hours. Officials discussed the growing threat from Iran and their concern about cyberattacks and weapons proliferation.

What was dramatically different was how long the discussion on al Qaida lasted: It clocked in at just minutes.

The head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Matthew Olsen, summed up the al Qaida threat this way: "The bottom line, I think, is that al Qaida is weaker now than it has been in the last 10 years," he told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.

At a House Intelligence Hermes white gold necklace knock off Committee hearing Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said: "As long as we sustain the pressure on it, we judge that core al Qaida will be of largely symbolic importance to the global jihadist movement. But regional affiliates, and to a lesser extent Hermes necklace copy small cells and individuals, will drive the global jihad agenda."

Threat Shifting, But Not Disappearing

Experts say officials are talking about more than just a terrorist group that is decentralized. What they are saying is that something more significant than that has happened: Al Qaida, as a movement, has fragmented. And according to Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University and a terrorism expert, that means that the threat al Qaida presents has fundamentally changed.

"The threats may not be as serious as 9/11 and 2001 type threats, because the groups are smaller and, fortunately, less capable," Hoffman says. "Nonetheless, they are much more difficult to identify, much more difficult to track, and much more difficult to anticipate, prevent. intelligence community is turning its focus to groups like al Qaida's arm in Yemen or Islamic militias in Somalia such as al Shabab. It released a video message this week that called on jihadis to focus on the United States; their leader said President Obama was waging a war against Muslims.

This is the kind of clarion call that al Qaida used to sound.

Audrey Kurth Cronin, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, says the hearings revealed another important development closer to home the intelligence community has become far less breathless about al Qaida.

"I think that we're returning to a slightly more normal perspective on terrorism," Cronin says. "We're not seeing al Qaida as the only organization that uses terrorism, and we're going back to a broader view where we have threats of terrorism from many different sources, and I think that is the transition that is under way."

Groups May Exploit Arab Spring Instability

This broader view means that officials aren't focusing exclusively on al Qaida affiliates. Instead, they are trolling for any terrorist groups that might be seeking to take advantage of the instability that has followed the Arab Spring. In some cases it might be groups aligned with al Qaida; in other cases they might not.

Consider the availability of guns and other weapons. According to intelligence officials, before the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, an AK 47 in North Africa cost about $1,000. With the flood of weapons coming out of Libya, an AK 47 now costs about half that.

Georgetown's Hoffman says that's only the beginning.

"If the Syrian government falls and there is the same instability that attended the fall fake Hermes necklace of the Gadhafi regime with the fall of Bashar Assad's regime, the region could be flooded with weapons," he says.

Whether that will help fledgling al Qaida affiliates or new groups is still to be determined. And that's why intelligence officials are watching the developments so closely.

The more immediate question, however, is where this leaves al Qaida.

"The bottom line is, when is it 'rest in peace al Qaida?' " says Cronin.

"And my answer would be 'not yet,' some things require the passage of time. All the indicators are positive, particularly with respect to al Qaida's core," Cronin says. "Al Qaida has declined. But only a historian can declare it is dead."
Proposed 'veterans court' may not reach those who need it most

"I saw a kid (a soldier) get shot in the face. He died right in front of me," Smith said. "It wasn't even in battle. We were just standing around and somebody's gun went off. explosion.

"It was in a convoy. We passed over the spot and the kid was behind us."

Then there was a kid who was really a kid. An Iraqi child "with half his face blown off. That really hit me hard necklace Hermes copy because I had two little girls at home,'' Smith said.

Gregory Bowles was a kid himself when he joined the Marines right after high school during the Vietnam War , following in the footsteps of an uncle who fought in World War II and Korea.

"I'd see him in those dress blues and thought, man, that's it," Bowles said. "Nobody tells you about the other stuff."

The other stuff for Bowles was dragging body parts and body bags out of the bush outside of Saigon and Da Nang during the American evacuation.

"I'd never seen a dead body before that," Bowles said.

A member of his detail went missing and was found dead, barb wired to a tree with a punji stake in his chest.

"There was a note. It said 'Americans Go Home,'" Bowles said.

Two servicemen. Two wars. Gregory Bowles is 67 now and has been wrestling with his post war "demons" for 42 years. Jamie Smith is 47 and has been at it for 10.

But their symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder are hauntingly similar. Unexplained anger. Sleeplessness. A gnawing unease that could only be quieted with drugs first prescribed, then otherwise. Next came the arrests. And job loss. And the alienation of loved ones, the homelessness. The spiral down that led to desperation. Crime.

Both have multiple drug offenses. Bowles also has a conviction of robbery by force and Smith was Hermes replica necklace charged with domestic violence. Both have been in jail and housing for homeless veterans.

A bill being voted on next week by the state Senate will create a "Veteran's Treatment Court Pilot Program." The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Van Drew (D 1st District) and Sen. Diane Allen (R 7th District) will help troubled veterans who are arrested for minor offenses skirt the regular judicial system and instead get the counseling, healthcare and other assistance they need.

An Assembly bill, which cartier earrings replica was passed a month ago and had six bi partisan sponsors, shares the exact language as the Senate bill.

"We can't have these people who served and sacrificed for us sitting in jail cells," Van Drew said. "Their problems are a cry for help. We want to get them the proper care and counseling and get them on the right track."

The bill establishes a three year program to divert "nonviolent offenders" who served in wars "away from the criminal justice system and into appropriate treatment" for drugs and alcohol abuse and mental health issues.

Under that language, however, veterans such as Smith and Bowles would not be eligible.

"While I applaud the effort, which is long overdue, the bill leaves too many veterans out," said Thomas Roughneen, the leading attorney at Citizen Soldier Law, a Chatham practice that specializes in helping veterans and military personnel.

"The awful truth is that many of these people have offenses that are violent or serious, and they are the ones who need help the most," said Roughneen, who is a lieutenant colonel in the New Jersey Army National Guard and an Iraq War veteran.

"Domestic violence is more prevalent than we think among these veterans and it is the start of their downward spiral," he said.

To prove his point, he introduced the cases of Smith and Bowles, neither of whom would have been eligible for the replica Hermes yellow gold necklace new program, as examples of why the program should be expanded to include veterans who might fall outside the criteria, on a case by case basis.

"Their problems all stem from the service," Roughneen said. "The men who went off to serve their country were not the men who came home. Their families want them to get treatment, not thrown in jail."

Roughneen has a letter from Smith's estranged wife, Lisa, to the court after he was charged with drug possession in 2016 which said in part, "It's sad to watch a man you love so much change into someone you can't be around. It's heartbreaking . all we ever wanted was treatment for Jamie."

He admits making threats but said he never struck or manhandled his wife, a statement supported by his wife's letter.

Bowles, who grew up in Elizabeth, said he came from a "law and order family. My father was a city cop. We were on the straight and narrow. I never even smoked a joint before the Marines."