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This compelling work of documentary history tells a story of
idealism betrayed, a story of how the Comintern (Communist
International), an organization established by Lenin in 1919 to
direct and assist revolutionary movements throughout the world,
participated in and was ultimately destroyed by the Stalinist
repression in the late 1930s. Presenting and drawing on recently
declassified archival documents, William J. Chase analyzes the
Comintern's roles as agent, instrument, and victim of terror. In
both principle and practice, the Comintern was an international
organization, with a staff that consisted primarily of Communist
emigres who had fled dictatorial regimes in Europe and Asia. It
was, however, headquartered in Moscow and controlled by Soviet
leaders. This book examines the rise of suspicions and xenophobia
among Soviet and Comintern leaders and cadres for whom many
foreigners were no longer the heroes of the class struggle but
rather possible enemy agents. Some Comintern members internalized
and acted on Stalin's theories about the infiltration of foreign
spies into Soviet society, supplying the Soviet police with
information that led to the exile or execution of imigris.
Thousands of other imigris also became victims of the purges.
Together the text and documents of this book convey graphically the
essential roles played by the Comintern, providing a unique
perspective on the era of Stalinist repression and terror.
Maybe you got Access as part of Microsoft Office and wonder what it
can do for you and your household; maybe you're a small business
manager and don't have a techie on staff to train the office in
Microsoft Access. Regardless, you want to quickly get your feet wet
- but not get in over your head - and "Access 2003 for Starters:
The Missing Manual" is the book to make it happen. Far more than a
skimpy introduction, but much less daunting than a weighty tech
book, "Access 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual" demystifies
databases and explains how to design and create them with ease. It
delivers everything you need - and nothing you don't - to use
Access right away. It's your expert guide to the Access features
that are most vital and most useful, and it's your trusted advisor
on the more in-depth features that are best saved for developers
and programmers. Access is sophisticated and powerful enough for
professional developers, but easy and practical enough for everyday
users like you. This Missing Manual explains all the major features
of Access 2003, including designing and creating databases,
organizing and filtering information, and generating effective
forms and reports. Bestselling authors, database designers, and
programmers Scott Palmer, Ph.D., and Kate Chase are your guides for
putting the world's most popular desktop data management program to
work. Their clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, plenty
of illustrations, and timesaving advice help you get up to speed
quickly and painlessly. Whether you're just starting out or you
know you've been avoiding aspects of the program and missing out on
much of what it can do, this friendly, witty book will gently
immerse you in Microsoft Access. Keep it handy, as you'll
undoubtedly refer to it again and again.
With advances in technology and medical science, children with
previously untreatable and often fatal conditions, such as
congenital heart disease, extreme prematurity and pediatric
malignancy, are living longer. While this is a tremendous
achievement, pediatric providers are now more commonly facing
challenges in these medical complex children both as a consequence
of their underlying disease and the delivery of medical care. The
term healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) encompass both
infections that occur in the hospital and those that occur as a
consequence of healthcare exposure and medical complexity in the
outpatient setting. HAIs are associated with substantial morbidity
and mortality for the individual patient as well as seriously
taxing the healthcare system as a whole. In studies from the early
2000s, over 11% of all children in pediatric intensive care units
develop HAIs and this figure increases substantially if neonatal
intensive care units are considered. While progress has been made
in decreasing the rates of HAI in the hospital, these infections
remain a major burden on the medical system. In a study published
in 2013, the annual estimated costs of the five most common HAIs in
the United States totaled $9.8 billion. An estimated 648,000
patients developed HAIs in hospitals within the US in 2011 and
children with healthcare-associated bloodstream infection have a
greater than three-fold increased risk of death.While a number of
texts discuss HAIs in the broader context of infectious diseases or
pediatric infectious diseases (such as Mandell's Principles and
Practice of Infectious Diseases or Long and Pickering's Principles
and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases) no single text
specifically focuses on the epidemiology, diagnosis and management
of HAI in children. Many infectious diseases texts are organized
based on the microbiology of infection and from this starting point
then discussing the clinical syndromes associated with the organism
of interest. For instance, a chapter on Staphylococcus aureus may
contain a brief discussion of the role of S. aureus in surgical
site infections in the wider context of all staphylococcal disease.
For clinicians caring for children at the bedside, however, the
clinical syndrome is typically appreciated and intervention
necessary prior to organism identification. We propose a text that
details both the general principles involved in HAIs and infection
prevention but also provides a problem oriented approach. Such a
text would be of interest to intensivists, neonatologists,
hospitalists, oncologists, infection preventionists and infectious
diseases specialists. The proposed text will be divided into three
principle sections: 1) Basic Principles of Infection Control and
Prevention, 2) Major Infectious Syndromes and 3) Infections in
Vulnerable Hosts. Chapters in the Major Infectious Syndromes
section will include discussion of the epidemiology, microbiology,
clinical features, diagnosis, medical management (or surgical
management as appropriate) and prevention of the disease entity of
interest. Chapters will seek to be evidenced based as much as
possible drawing from the published medical literature as well as
from clinical practice guidelines (such as those from the
Infectious Diseases Society of America) when applicable. We intend
to include tables, figures and algorithms as appropriate to assist
clinicians in the evaluation and management of these often complex
patients. Finally, we intend to invite authors to participate in
this project from across a number of medical specialties including
infectious diseases, infection control, critical care, oncology and
surgery to provide a multidisciplinary understanding of disease. It
is our intent to have many chapters be co-written by individuals in
different subspecialties; for instance, a chapter on
ventilator-associated pneumonia may be co-written by both
infectious disease and critical care medicine specialists. Such a
unique text has the potential to provide important guidance for
clinicians caring for these often fragile children.
The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake caused a massive landslide (Madison
Slide) that dammed the Madison River and formed Earthquake Lake.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers excavated a spillway through the
Madison Slide to permit outflow from Earthquake Lake. In June 1970,
high streamflows on the Madison River severely eroded the spillway
channel and damaged the roadway embankment along U.S. Highway 287
downstream from the Madison Slide. Investigations undertaken
following the 1970 flood events concluded that substantial erosion
through and downstream from the spillway could be expected for
streamflows greater than 3,500 cubic feet per second (ft3/s).
Accordingly, the owners of Hebgen Dam, upstream from Earthquake
Lake, have tried to manage releases from Hebgen Lake to prevent
streamflows from exceeding 3,500 ft3/s measured at the U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS) gaging station 0638800 Madison River at
Kirby Ranch, near Cameron, Montana.
Are you into adrenaline? If you are, you can find your fix in this
book as you follow the adventures of its lead character 'Chance', a
very skilled 'narco-trafficante' while he takes care of business on
two continents. Following him into the jungles of Colombia and find
out what happened to 2,000,000 kg of cocaine that were confiscated
by the Colombian Army. The cocaine was taken from a pole barn of
one of Pablo Escobar's lieutenants named Portofan while the whole
incident was broadcast live on the local TV channels during the
evening news in Medellin. The DEA stationed in Medellin had to be
aware of this broadcast and each and everyone of the individually
wrapped 2,000,000 kilos of cocaine. The bricks of cocaine were
stacked to the 14' ceiling of a 200' long pole barn that sat at the
end of a dirt runway surrounded by coffee trees in the mountains of
central Colombia. That's 2,000,000 kilos of cocaine were talking
about, or 2000 metric tons, which would be without question the
largest drug seizure in the history of the world. A pile of cocaine
that was worth over$20,000,000,000(US) bare-bones minimum on the
streets of Miami, and three times that amount in New York City. And
I also have to ask you, is Pablo Escobar really dead? Books say he
is, and so do many cable-television channel documentaries. The
United States government also claimed that they killed him in 1993
in the city of Medellin. If all this was true, then why did the US
government asked me, Brian (Chance) Chase, the author, in 1997 if
Pablo Escobar was still alive after they had made all of these
spectacular claims about his illegal yet government sanctioned
assassination in 1993. The answers to these questions and much much
more are in this book. A book that can also be described as a love
story of soulmates... trying to survive in the very dangerous and
violent world of the Colombian-based cocaine trade. After I retired
from the cocaine business, I served a 15 year prison sentence on
cocaine distribution, money laundering, theft and exportation of
stolen aircraft, and murder charges. I paid for my crimes not only
by going to prison but also by paying a toll on other very personal
and emotional levels that broke my heart forever, but that I won't
go into just now. It was the idea of two FBI agents that were
involved in my case that I should write this book. They told me
that 'we' had made history, and that I, a gringo, had penetrated
the Cartel faster and deeper than any gringo they had on record at
the time. It took me two or three months of lying in my bunk,
thinking and looking at my jail cell ceiling before I finally
decided to write because I came to the conclusion that I had a good
story to tell. So this is it, 'Air Pirates' my first installment in
the series of 6 (or more) books called 'The Outlaw Chronicles'. One
could call it in 'adventure crime love story saga', or you could
call it something else. But this book is full of true intrigues, it
often becomes bloody and people get kidnapped, seriously abused and
sometime they are even killed. But I also have to say this, despite
the fact that I can almost guarantee that this book will reach into
the depths of your psyche and grab hold of your heart and squeeze
until you cry.... I also never had a bigger 'blast' living out
these adventures, in all my life.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
'Michael Chase lives and breathes kindness, enthusiasm, and humor
...Be kind to yourself. Read this book.' - Christine Northrup,
M.D., New York Times best-selling author of Women's Bodies, Women's
Wisdom and The Secret Pleasures of Menopause Awakening the reader
like caffeine for the heart, am I being kind revives the spirit and
blazes a direct path to a more peaceful and kind-hearted world. In
this captivating guide to personal transformation, author and
inspirational speaker Michael J. Chase reveals how one simple
question has the power to change your life and the lives of those
around you. As you ask, 'am I being kind' in seven vital areas of
your life, you discover the secret to creating unlimited joy, inner
peace, and the life you've always dreamed of. Having experienced
the 'art of unkindness' throughout much of his life, Michael shares
his own journey of self-discovery and the lessons learned from
unlikely spiritual teachers along the way. Through riveting true
stories and a unique step-by-step program, am I being kind shows
you how the astonishing power of kindness can change your heart,
your life, and ultimately, your world.
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