The NAMI Family-to-Family program has been shown to empower families in the way they solve internal problems, and reduced the anxiety of participants in randomized controlled trials, a finding which was shown to persist 6 months later. These studies confirm preliminary findings that Family-to-Family graduates describe a permanent transformation in the understanding and engagement with mental illness in themselves and their family. Because a is at risk of poor by , Dixon and colleges sought out to strengthen the evidence basis by confirming the benefits attributed to Family-to-Family with a subset of individuals who declined participation during initial studies
The NAMI Family-to-Family program was found to be effective in increasing schizophrenia patient caregivers' self-efficacy while reducing a subjective burden and need for information. In light of recent research, Family-to-Family was added to the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices.
Chūō, Tokyo
The municipality calls itself "Chūō City" in English.
On March 15, 1947, the ward was formed by combining the wards of Kyōbashi and Nihonbashi.
Chūō is in central Tokyo. It borders Tokyo Bay on the south. Minato is on the ward's southwestern border. Chiyoda is on the northwestern border. Sumida and Kōtō are on the east.
The most famous districts in Chūō are Ginza and Nihonbashi. Other districtsare Kabutochō and Tsukiji.
In area, Chūō is the second-smallest ward in Tokyo. Only Taitō is smaller.
Edogawa, Tokyo
The municipality calls itself "Edogawa City" in English.
Edogawa is in eastern Tokyo. It borders Tokyo Bay on the south. Kōtō and Sumida are on the west. Katsushika is on the northwestern border. On the east, the ward shares boundaries with the cities of Urayasu, Ichikawa and Matsudo in Chiba Prefecture.
Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime drama movie directed by Quentin Tarantino set in Los Angeles. It is based on a book by Elmore Leonard. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Pam Grier, Robert De Niro, Robert Forster, Chris Tucker, LisaGay Hamilton, Sid Haig and Bridget Fonda with Michael Keaton. It opened in theaters on December 25, 1997 in the United States. It is almost 154 minutes long. It was distributed by Miramax.
100 Landscapes of Japan (Heisei period)
The is a list of famous scenic sites in Japan. This list was developed during the reign of the current emperor.
The top three are Mount Fuji, Shosenkyo gorge in Yamanashi Prefecture, and Shiretoko in Hokkaido.
A national poll was part of creating the at the beginning of Emperor Hirohito's reign.
The "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" and "Mainichi Shimbun" supported the selection process during 1927.
In 2009, the "Yomiuri Shimbun" sponsored an update. The newspaper and its readers selected the . This new selection was supported by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Three hundred sites were nominated and more than 640,000 votes were collected during the polling process.
Pieter de Grebber
Pieter de Grebber (around 1600-1652 or 1653 in Haarlem) was a Dutch painter. He was the oldest son of Frans Pietersz de Grebber. He learned how to paint from his father, and from Hendrik Goltzius.
Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
The Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (); or colloquially San Andrés y Providencia is one of the departments of Colombia. It consists of two island groups about northwest of Colombia and from the coast of Nicaragua, and eight outlying banks and reefs. Its capital is San Andrés.
In 2005, about 65.000 people lived on San Andrès, and about 5.000 on Providencia. About 200 lived on Santa Catalina, which lies right next to Providencia.
100 Landscapes of Japan (Shōwa period)
The is a list of famous scenic sites in Japan. This list was developed early in the Shōwa period which was the reign of Emperor Shōwa.
A national poll was part of creating the at the beginning of Emperor Hirohito's reign.
The "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" and "Mainichi Shimbun" supported the selection process during 1927. Also, groupings of "Eight Views" and "Twenty-five Sites" were developed.
In 2009, the "Yomiuri Shimbun" sponsored an update. The newspaper and its readers selected the . This new selection was supported by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo (born 5 July 1979) is a French retired tennis player.
Mauresmo was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. She turned professional in 1993. She was the world number 1 women's singles from 13 September to 17 October 2004 and from 20 March to 12 November 2006. She won a silver medal in singles at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2006, she won the Australian Open and Wimbledon. She retired in 2009.
She is openly lesbian.
In June 2014, Mauresmo became Andy Murray's coach.
Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich (born 22 June 1960 in Lawrence, Kansas) is a legal clerk and an environmental activist. Brockovich was important in making cases against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in California. It was the largest direct-action lawsuit in history at $333 million. Since the 2000 movie "Erin Brockovich", she has hosted "Challenge America" on ABC. She presented the documentary series "Final Justice with Erin Brockovich" in 2003.
Indirect speech
Indirect speech is a way of reporting what somebody said without using their exact words. Indirect speech does not use quotation marks.
for example:
Erin Brockovich (movie)
Erin Brockovich is a 2000 American docudrama movie. It stars Julia Roberts as environmental activist Erin Brockovich. It is about Brockovich's legal actions in California against companies there in the 1990s. This movie was nominated for several Academy Awards. Roberts won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role. In the movie, the real Erin Brockovich has a as a waitress named Julia.
32-bit
In computer architecture, 32-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are at most 32 bits wide. Windows versions for 32-bit architecture are limited to 3.56 gigabytes of viewable memory due to the 32-bit address bus.
Anticyclonic storm
Anticyclonic storms are weather systems that are very similar to a hurricane. They spin in the opposite direction to tropical cyclones, however.
Nutcracker
A nutcracker is a mechanical device for cracking open the shells of nuts. Nutcrackers are usually made of a lever which squeezes the shell of a nut until it cracks open. The earliest use of the term "nutcracker" in English dates to 1481.
Ballet Master
Ballet Master (also Balletmaster, Ballet Mistress, Premier Maître de ballet or Premier Maître de ballet en Chef) is an employee of a ballet company. The Ballet Master is responsible for keeping the dancers in the company to a high level of competence.
Ballet masters (or ballet mistresses for women) teach the daily company ballet class. They rehearse the dancers for both new and old ballets in the company's repertoire. The artistic director of a ballet company may also be called its ballet master.
Celesta
The celesta is a keyboard musical instrument. It looks like an upright piano. When a key is depressed, a hammer strikes a steel plate. The range is three to five octaves. There may be a pedal to sustain or dampen the sound. Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from "The Nutcracker" is probably the most famous piece of music written for the celesta. 'Celeste' means "heavenly" in French. The celesta was invented in 1886..
Mr. Man (disambiguation)
Mr. Mann is a character from BBC television programme, "Little Britain"
Mr. Man may also refer to:
Provinces of South Korea
Provinces are the first-level division within South Korea. Governors for these provinces are elected every four years.
A province () is the highest-ranked administrative divisions in South Korea. Provinces have equal status to the Korean special cities.