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Normally I am a big AVG fan and I have been getting the business anti-virus 10-key licensing for almost a decade now.
AVG Chat Support: Welcome to AVG.
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The School Health and Nutrition webinar series provides monthly presentations by leading policy makers, researchers and implementators engaged in improving the health and education of children in low and middle income countries across the globe.
The webinars cover all areas of school health and nutrition with speakers draw from organisations engaged in furthering the aims and objectives of the FRESH movement. This series builds on the SHN Webinar series by Save the Children which began in 2011 and over the past 5 years has brought speakers from the SHN sector of many organizations, including policy makers, researchers and practitioners.
Why is eye health promotion in schools important? What are its components?
El Salvador's health program that promotes healthy lifestyles focusing on nutrition, physical and emotional health.
Connell DB, Turner RR, Mason EF. (1985) Summary of findings of the School Health Education Evaluation: health promotion effectiveness, implementation, and costs, J Sch Health. 1985 Oct;55(8):316-21.
This session explores the pitfalls relating to the very wide scope of the social role of schooling as well as in the various methods/entry points and the practical realities and capacities of school systems in different contexts (low resource, high resource and conflict/disaster-affected)?
What is the WHO's strategy for Health Promoting Schools and how is that linked with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the WHO's 13th General Programme of Work? What learnings do the School for Health in Europe Network provide to fill gaps between policy and practice in high and low resource settings? What are the next steps for a renewed Health Promoting Schools Approach?
This webinar presents the results of a pilot feasibility study and follow-up trial from Kisumu, Western Kenya, testing the value of providing menstrual cups to school girls. It outlines the effects and the costs of menstrual-specific intervetions versus broader initiatives have on adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health; school enrolment, retention, and attainment.
The webinar highlights the new tools are under development to assess the outcomes of menstrual health programming on girls' related self-efficacy, stress, and school participation.
Oral diseases are among the most common diseases worldwide, particularly for school-age children and adolescents. They pose significant public health problems for all countries and entail substantial health, social, and economic impacts.
Caroline Hilari, Margarita Franco: What is Needed to Improve Food Sales in Schools? Food Vendors’ Opinion from El Salvador, Frontiers in Public Health. 2015; 3: 168.
World Health Organization, 2011. Intermittent iron supplementation in school and school-age children.
World Health Organization, 2010. Set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children.
World Food Programme Website on School meals.
How do you ensure different sources of food and nutrition in schools?
This webinar focuses on how mental health programmes and teacher training can be delivered and sustained in low resource countries.
Dr Kutcher's presented recent findings of a review of relevant research, reports and resources on school mental health in low resource countries. The webinar touched on how mental health programmes and teacher training can be delivered in low resource settings.
The positive and negative aspects of mental health relevant to low resource settings.
Accessing the skills, information and resources to provide basic adolescent mental health services.
The School Heath Integrated Programming (SHIP) initiative is a global programme that tsupports governments to mainstream school health and nutrition interventions into national education sector plans. The initiative is focused on two cornerstones of school health and nutrition: deworming and vision screening. These two simple interventions can be used as a platform for other interventions.
As part of the programme the initiative worked with governments in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Senegal, to distribute treatments for intestinal worms and screen the eyes of 40,000 school children, giving glasses to those who need them.
Health Promoting School: an effective approach for early action on NCD risk factors. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017.
Following up on the recent publication of a UNODC-UNESCO-WHO guidance document, this session will review and discuss the research and practice on programs preventing substance abuse, including alcohol and tobacco.
This webinar will be interactive, with remarks from several experts and practitioners, leading into a discussion among all attendees. Different aspects, effective strategies and challenges will be discussed.
A series of findings from a recent review of research, reports and resources relevant to low resource countries, presented in the form of a mini-Delphi consultation, will be circulated and discussed as a backdrop and eventual product of the session and follow-up.
Stefan Witek-McManus, London Applied & Spatial Epidemiology Research Group, LSHTM.
Stefan Witek-McManus, highlights the results of study into the impact of Learner Treatment Kit (LTK)in schools in Malawi. This innovative study looked at the effectiveness of training teachers to use LTKs - simple first-aid kits containing malaria rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapy, to manage uncomplicated malaria and other basic health problems experienced by primary school children.
To mark this year's International School Meals Day the FRESH webinar will be focusing on the impact that the McGovern–Dole International Food for Education Projects is having on the education, child development and food security of low-income, food-deficit communities of Guatemala.
Jenelle Babb, UNESCO; Julie Hanson Swanson, USAID; & Hassan Muluusi, Raising Voices, Uganda.
This webinar will explore tools and approaches for preventing, measuring, monitoring and responding to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV), based on evidence and country experiences.
SRGBV affects millions of children and young people, cutting across cultures, economies, peoples and practices. It constitutes a major barrier to children’s ability to learn and develop, and is correlated with lower academic achievement.
Ending school-related gender-based violence is a priority for countries wishing to achieve ambitious global goals on inclusive and quality education for all, good health and well-being and gender equality.
This webinar discusses the role of education sector in contributing to the prevention of drug use and other risky behaviours, and introduce the types of school based approaches found effective for preventing later substance use.
Dr Aurino discusses the initial findings of a large scale impact evaluation of the Ghana School Feeding Programme on the health and educational outcomes of children and the incomes of local small holder farmers.
Rachel Pullan discusses the importance of mapping worm prevalence as a means to design and target effective school based deworming programmes.
Laura's webinar presents initial research findings from the Enhanced School Health Initiative, an innovative collaboration with the Government of Ethiopia to assess the effectiveness of integrating multiple school health and nutrition programmes in Southern Ethiopia. | 2019-04-22T10:52:29 | http://www.schoolsandhealth.org/webinar-series | [
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The final visit day before my Big Birthday Bash was to Project BR-458 to visit Jessica, Cristian and Ana Cristina.
I previously sponsored all three of these kids and visited twice but my friends Cathy Ward (Cristina) and Amanda and Bruce Newton (Jessica and Christian) took over the sponsorships when I moved to the Philippines in 2014..
I have written a lot about my connection with Ana Cristina. She was my first sponsored child from Brazil, God used her tragic family situation to move my heart and I ended up sponsoring and visiting 12 kids from the same area over the next few years. My visit to her family home in 2013 was among the hardest days of my life. Seeing the reality of their lives crushed me, and reminded me that poverty is a beast and Compassion is not some sort of magical instant quick fix, but a long term process.
I was looking forward to seeing Cristina again and I remember thinking it couldn’t possibly be a harder day than last time. How wrong I was.
The day started off so well. We were welcomed by lots of joyful noise and a confetti shower by a group of curious kids.
I met 12-year-old Jessica and her sister Gizelle.
I learned that Christian was at school and I would meet him in the afternoon. They also mentioned that 16-year-old Cristina was away having tests for a potentially serious medical issue. Wow. So much for an easier day.
Fair to say this played on my mind all day but I was aware of the need to stay present and engaged for the other two visits. I re-introduced myself to Jessica and Gizelle and went through some photos. I got out the Uno and elastics and we had a play before the home visit.
Jessica and Gizelle live with their mum and five-year-old younger brother. We also met their 10-year-old uncle (Mama’s little brother). We teased him in a friendly way about whether his (older and taller) nieces obeyed him. There is no father at home. Their mother has her own sewing machine and has a job sewing lace onto bras and underwear. It is not stable or consistent. Both girls were very shy and I struggled to get much out of them. Jessica was unsure when I asked her about her future, what she wanted to be etc. My guess is that the people in her community just see what’s in front of them. I encouraged Jessica that God has given her gifts and abilities, even if she was unsure about what they were at this stage.
Little bro didn't want to be in a photo, so I had to take this sneaky shot.
We went back to the Project for lunch, where I was met with more bad news. Cristina had to go to another medical facility for different tests and I would not be meeting her on this day. There was also a possibility that she would not be attending my birthday the following day. This left me shattered and I pleaded with Renato to do everything he could to ensure that I was able to see her.
Despite Cristina’s absence we still went to visit her mother.
She was there by herself, as her husband and four daughters were out and about. Last time I visited they were living in their grandmother’s house, now they were living next door. I did my best to rustle up some conversation, and she was more open and honest than on my previous visit. As it was election time they were employed as one of the thousands of people waving flags and handing out pamphlets for the election candidates. It’s only temporary and they have nothing else. I found out her oldest son was in jail for riding a stolen motor bike. She was convinced he did not steal it himself. We had a look at a couple of Cristina’s ultrasound results and prayed for the family.
After this it was time for the third home visit of the day, to the house of Christian and his parents. We were told that normally after school he goes straight to his grandparents house, as it’s closer, but when we arrived there we found out that he had already headed home. His grandfather came with us to direct us to the house.
I visited Christian back in 2012 and 2013. His parents have had a rocky relationship but that changed about four years ago when his father genuinely gave his life to Jesus. Now their whole existence revolves around church activities and sharing the gospel. His father was a smiley, friendly chap who is the resident “fix-it guy” and has a workshop next door to their house. I had a chat with Christian, the highlight of which was when he got out his guitar and strummed a few chords.
Time was running out so we headed back to the Project for a final play. I entertained a group of kids with pictures of my family and some Australian animals, then we got out the footy which was once again a big hit.
Despite the news about Cristina, which had the potential to overshadow the whole day, my visit to BR-458 was a positive experience this time around. I was thankful to God that he enabled me to be present and engaged for the remainder of the day.
I can't imagine how hard it was to focus on your visits after hearing about Ana Cristina!! But I'm so glad your other two visits went well and that God opened the way for you to see Ana Cristina. | 2019-04-24T09:52:11 | http://supernintendo81.blogspot.com/2016/09/brazil-compassion-adventure-visit-day-4.html | [
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USENIX assembled an impressive speaker lineup of security researchers and practitioners to help introduce the Enigma brand. Together, those presenters provided some unique perspectives on challenges in the digital space, including cybercrime, debugging, and security usability.
To wrap up the conference and to drive home the central theme of protecting against attacks, the event’s program committee selected Rob Joyce to deliver the closing session.
As chief of the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a division of the National Security Agency which actively engages in “computer network exploitation” against systems used by entities foreign to the United States, Joyce works with a team of hackers to produce foreign intelligence for a wide array of mission types. He knows firsthand why and how nation-state hackers succeed, and he knows what types of activities frustrate his team’s offensive campaigns. That is why he chose to speak at Enigma about what nation-state defenders and corporate organizations can do to protect themselves against advanced persistent threats (APTs).
In the first stage of an intrusion, a nation-state attacker takes the time out to understand their target. That begins with scanning, researching important people and email addresses associated with the target, looking up open-source information regarding the organization or government, and documenting everything they find on the network. Joyce explains that while defenders might know what technologies they intended to use on a network, attackers know what’s actually in use on that network. They also spend the time learning the security functionalities of those devices and finding vulnerabilities they can exploit.
Defenders can stop an intrusion at the reconnaissance phase if they are willing to invest the time and energy necessary to understand what devices are installed on a network and to familiarize themselves with those products’ security functionalities. As part of that process, they should lock down and disable whatever devices aren’t in use, conduct (and then act upon the results of) penetration tests, and shore up the network trust boundary so that they can concentrate primarily on protecting the “crown jewels” of the organization.
If defenders are unable to stop nation-state hackers after they’ve conducted reconnaissance, those hackers then look for an initial exploitation vector by which they can gain access to their target’s network. This phase usually takes the form of spear-phishing, water-holing attacks, exploiting a known CVE vulnerability, or conducting SQL injection. Many people think nation-state attackers primarily use zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise a target. But that’s not generally the case. According to Joyce, attackers can achieve exploitation in most corporate networks using easier and less-risky exploits than zero-days by being patient and focused.
Attackers won’t be able to get past the initial exploitation phase if defenders continually update their space using CVE information and make sure their networks aren’t relying on users to always make the right decisions. That effort involves developing policies and technical enforcement that incorporate anti-exploitation features (such as Microsoft EMET) as well as guidance from NSA Information Assurance Directives and other respected sources. To further foil the plans of nation-state hackers, defenders can develop a baseline for “normal” behavior, make use of network logs, and follow best security practices, such as by setting the least amount of privileges for accounts, segmenting off parts of the network, and whitelisting applications.
Attackers who achieve initial exploitation ultimately seek to establish persistence in the network. They commonly do so via privilege escalation, finding the Run Keys, or getting into scripts.
To prevent advanced hackers from doing anything else, organizations and governments can use application whitelisting. Most organizations have assets that should be protected and segmented off from the rest of the network. Whitelisting applications help prevent attackers from running malware or something unusual on those business-critical assets.
Once nation-state hackers are sure they can hang around in a network and not get caught, they can initiate their malicious activity by installing tools. Attackers usually begin with small tools that can eventually bring down heavier, more advanced scripts and programs–the ones that do the “real” work.
Anti-virus software can only do so much when it comes to preventing malicious tools from running on a computer. The same cannot be said, however, for reputation services. Everything that wants to run is hashed and sent to the cloud via the reputation service. That service then sends back a report. If something has been run only once or twice before on the public web, it’s a good idea for defenders to prevent that item from running. Additionally, reputation services can also help block attackers from communicating not only with known malicious domains but also suspect domains that don’t have a good reputation.
With the help of some tools, attackers can then begin to move laterally around the network to find what they’re really after.
Defenders can stop attackers in their tracks by practicing network segmentation and monitoring, restricting privileges, enabling two-factor authentication on all accounts, and creating processes that can help ensure the security of a remote connection.
At this point, the defenders completely own their target. All they need to do is get what they need, get out, and leave undetected.
No organization wants to follow the example set by Sony Pictures Entertainment and learn about a breach after attackers have already posted sensitive information online. Defenders should therefore have processes in place that monitor for unusual data transfers or corruption. They should also have a backup plan in place in the event hackers steal or erase a target’s data.
Organizations can’t protect themselves from every type of hacker or every form of intrusion. But by getting to know the devices and applications installed on their network, they will be better equipped to detect an intrusion and prevent attackers from stealing valuable information.
Keeping an inventory of all network devices is one of the most important steps when it comes to endpoint detection and response (EDR). To learn about some of the other components of an effective EDR strategy, please click here or download Tripwire’s free eBook Endpoint Detection and Response for Dummies here. | 2019-04-19T12:16:00 | https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/security-hardening/6-stages-of-network-intrusion-and-how-to-defend-against-them/ | [
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The questions were the usual sort of demographic-gathering thing for the time–how much money do you spend on DC comics each week, what are your other interests, what’s your age range, etc. But here’s the one that lept out at me. Prepare, depending on whether you were alive in 1978, to feel either totally mystified or REALLY OLD.
I’m gonna go lie down. | 2019-04-23T16:01:56 | http://www.markwaid.com/news/great-moments-comics-37 | [
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Below, the exciting lineup for TEDWomen 2018!
Simona Abdallah plays Arabic percussion, primarily the Darbuka, a goblet-shaped drum. She has broken through traditional expectations to enjoy international success.
Simona Abdallah is lauded as the first female percussionist from an Arabic background. She plays the Darbouka, an instrument that is traditionally played by men. Her passion and talent drive her forwards to break barriers and escape oppressive surroundings. Her music combines traditional sounds with modern beats.
Abdallah identifies herself as Palestinian Danish. Her parents fled from to Lebanon to Germany, where she was born in 1979. The family subsequently moved to Denmark, where Abdallah spent her childhood in Denmark's second largest city, the windy port town of Aarhus.
Former Georgia House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams made history in 2018 when she earned the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia.
Stacey Abrams's 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia turned more voters than any Democrat in Georgia history, including former President Barack Obama, and invested in critical infrastructure to build progress in the state. After witnessing the gross mismanagement of the election by the Secretary of State's office, Abrams launched Fair Fight to ensure every Georgian has a voice in our election system.
Abrams received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and Yale Law School. Dedicated to civic engagement, she founded the New Georgia Project, which submitted more than 200,000 registrations from voters of color between 2014 and 2016.
Under the pen name Selena Montgomery, Abrams is the award-winning author of eight romantic suspense novels, which have sold more than 100,000 copies. As co-founder of NOW Account, a financial services firm that helps small businesses grow, Abrams has helped create and retain jobs in Georgia. And through her various business ventures, she has helped employ even more Georgians, including hundreds of young people starting out. As House Minority Leader, she has worked strategically to recruit, train, elect and defend Democrats to prevent a Republican supermajority in the House, and she has worked across the aisle on behalf of all Georgians. During her tenure, she has stopped legislation to raise taxes on the poor and middle class and to roll back reproductive healthcare. She has brokered compromises that led to progress on transportation, infrastructure, and education. In the legislature, she passed legislation to improve the welfare of grandparents and other kin raising children and secured increased funding to support these families.
Abrams and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi with three tenets: go to school, go to church, and take care of each other. Despite struggling to make ends meet for their family, her parents made service a way of life for their children -- if someone was less fortunate, it was their job to serve that person. This ethic led the family to Georgia. Abrams's parents attended Emory University to pursue graduate studies in divinity and become United Methodist ministers. Abrams and her younger siblings attended DeKalb County Schools, and she graduated from Avondale High School.
Galit Ariel explores how technology and humans interact with and influence each other, focusing on how mixing the digital and the physical creates a new/hybrid experiential space.
Galit Ariel is a transdisciplinary creative and strategic thinker. She defines herself as a "digital hippie" since she's passionate about a future that will integrate technology into our everyday lives but not control it. Her book Augmenting Alice: The Future of Identity, Experience and Reality explores the manner in which augmented reality's application will shift cultural and functional paradigms and redefine core concepts related to culture, space, experience and ethics.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is president of Repairers of the Breach, national co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and the leader of Moral Monday, an alliance of more than 200 progressive organizations.
As the architect of the Moral Monday, the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II stands for a multi-racial, multi-faith movement fighting for voting rights, public education, universal health care, environmental protection as well as the rights of women, labor, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community. In 2013, thousands joined weekly protests at the North Carolina state legislature; more than a thousand were arrested in civil disobedience. Monday coalition continues to draw tens of thousands each year.
For the past two years, Dr. Barber has led a national organizing tour called The Revival: Time for a Moral Revolution of Values, working alongside Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Rev. Dr. Traci Blackmon and Sister Simone Campbell to redefine public morality and support state coalitions to address poverty, injustice and inequality. Rev. Dr. Barber headed the state NAACP from 2006 to 2017 and serves on the NAACP National Board of Directors. With Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Theoharis, he co-chairs the Poor People's Campaign, A National Call For A Moral Revival, which focuses on systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism, and national morality. Rev. Dr. Barber is visiting professor of public theology and activism at Union Theological Seminary and the author of Forward Together: A Moral Vision for the Nation and The Third Reconstruction. He is a member of the College of Affirming Bishops and lives in Goldsboro, NC, where he has pastored Greenleaf Christian Church for 25 years.
Deeply influenced by the social inequalities around her and inspired by her father's social work in her early years, Shad Begum has become a nationally and internationally known figure because of her determined struggle to improve the conditions of the marginalized segments, especially women, of her community in the northwest of Pakistan -- a deeply religious and conservative area where Taliban publicly execute men and women for nonconformity to their version of Islam. Begum is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Association for Behaviour & Knowledge Transformation (ABKT), an organization working toward the economic and political empowerment of communities in underserved areas of Pakistan. Her organization was uprooted during the Taliban takeover in Swat due to massive displacement of people in 2009-2010. Against enormous odds, her resilience kept ABKT alive.
Begum previously worked with the UN Human Settlements Program as a consultant for the Building Gender Ladder Project as well as with UNDP's Women Political Participation Program. To encourage women at the grassroots level, she contested local elections in 2001 as an independent candidate and served as councilor for five years in Dir Lower. Begum is an Ashoka fellow, a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at National Endowment for Democracy and an Acumen Fellow. She won the US Department of State's International Woman of Courage Award in 2012.
Kate Brandt leads sustainability across Google's worldwide operations, products and supply chain.
At Google, Kate Brandt coordinates with data centers, real estate, supply chain and product teams to ensure the company is capitalizing on opportunities to advance sustainability and the circular economy.
Previously, Brandt served as the nation's first Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. In this capacity, she was responsible for promoting sustainability across federal government operations including 360,000 buildings, 650,000 vehicles and $445 billion annually in purchased goods and services. Prior to the White House, she held several senior roles in the US government including senior advisor at the Department of Energy, director for energy and environment in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel and energy advisor to the Secretary of the Navy.
With her liquid-silver voice, Ane Brun is famed for soulful covers and intimate original songs.
Singer and songwriter Ane Brun possesses one of Scandinavia's most distinctive voices, which she's employed on a dozen albums since her debut, 2003’s Spending Time with Morgan. Since then, she's been awarded three Norwegian Grammy prizes, with her albums topping the charts and going platinum in Scandinavia while picking up widespread acclaim internationally. She's toured the world repeatedly and is also famed for her interpretations -- her latest album, Leave Me Breathless, is entirely comprised of covers. In 2010, she joined Peter Gabriel on his "New Blood" tour, taking Kate Bush's role for "Don't Give Up," and she also featured on Dr. Kucho! & Gregor Salto’s "Can't Stop Playing (Makes Me High)," which topped the UK charts in 2015. In addition, she runs her own label, Balloon Ranger Recordings.
For more than 25 years, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of racial justice and sexual violence.
Tarana Burke's passion for community organizing began in the late 1980s, when she joined a youth development organization called 21st Century and led campaigns around issues like racial discrimination, housing inequality and economic justice. Her career took a turn toward supporting survivors of sexual violence upon moving to Selma, Alabama, to work for 21st Century. She encountered dozens of black girls who were sharing stories of sexual violence and abuse, stories she identified with very well. She realized too many girls were suffering through abuse without access to resources, safe spaces and support, so in 2007 she created Justbe Inc., an organization committed to the empowerment and wellness of black girls. The impacts of Justbe Inc. are widespread, as the program, which was adopted by every public school in Selma, has hundreds of alumni who have gone on to thrive and succeed in various ways.
Burke's role as the senior director at Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn, NY, an intergenerational nonprofit dedicated to strengthening local communities by creating opportunities for young women and girls to live self-determined lives, is a continuation of what she considers her life's work. Since #MeToo, the movement she created more than ten years ago, became a viral hashtag, she has emerged as a global leader in the evolving conversation around sexual violence and the need for survivor-centered solutions. Her theory of using empathy to empower survivors is changing the way the nation and the world think about and engage with survivors. Her belief that healing isn't a destination but a journey has touched and inspired millions of survivors who previously lived with the pain, shame and trauma of their assaults in isolation.
Climbing PoeTree harnesses creativity as the antidote to destruction through their spoken word, hip-hop and world music.
Co-creators Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman have organized more than 30 national and international tours as Climbing PoeTree, taking their work from South Africa to Cuba, the UK to Mexico, Scotland to India, and throughout the US -- including 11,000 miles toured on a bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil.
Climbing PoeTree has stirred crowds at diverse venues from the United Nations to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, featured alongside powerhouses such as Alicia Keys, Janelle Monáe, Erykah Badu, Little Dragon, Talib Kweli, Maxwell, Madonna, Rising Appalachia, T.I., Nahko and Angela Davis, who writes: "Each time I have the pleasure of attending a performance by Climbing PoeTree, I feel enriched, renewed, and inspired. Alixa and Naima insist that poetry can change the world -- and it is true that the urgency, power and beauty of their words impel us to keep striving for the radical futures toward which they gesture."
shares unexpected truths about animals.
Lucy Cooke is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning documentary producer, presenter and National Geographic explorer with a master's in zoology from Oxford University. She is a passionate conservationist and champion of animal species that are often misunderstood. Her style is immersive, journalistic and unashamedly populist, mixing expert storytelling with a dash of humor to reach the widest possible audience. She began her presenting career hosting Freaks and Creeps for National Geographic, a show about strange species that get overlooked in favor of charismatic megafauna, and has hosted numerous shows for the BBC.
Cooke has a particular soft spot for sloths and founded the Sloth Appreciation Society to promote a greater understanding of their lazy lifestyle. She has produced a number of iconic viral sloth videos, Meet the Sloths, an award-winning international series for Animal Planet, two best-selling books -- A Little Book of Sloth and Life in the Sloth Lane -- and an annual calendar featuring her sloth photographs.
Cooke's latest book, The Truth About Animals, was shortlisted for the prestigious Royal Society prize and the AAAS young adult science prize. Nature calls it a "deeply researched, sassily written history of the biggest misconceptions, mistakes and myths we've concocted about the animal kingdom, spread by figures from Aristotle to Walt Disney."
Ariana A. Curtis gets to research, collect, interpret and display objects and stories that help tell the history of all of us and our connections to each other.
An African American educator and a Black Panamanian engineering research technician raised Dr. Ariana Curtis, the youngest of their four kids, in an Afro-Latinx affirming household. Government forms and ill-informed publics have wanted her to be either African American or Latina, but Curtis has always advocated for full and accurate representation of self above all.
The yearning to see lives represented whole led Curtis to travel and study the complex overlap of Blackness, identity, gender, diaspora and belonging. After earning a doctorate in anthropology, Curtis, a Fulbright scholar, joined the curatorial staff of the Smithsonian Institution. She currently serves as the first curator for Latinx Studies at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In this role, she researches, collects, exhibits and promotes Latinx- and Black-centered narratives to more accurately represent the history and culture of the Americas. She also serves on multiple committees for the Smithsonian's American Women History Initiative. She's the author of the paper "Afro-Latinidad in the Smithsonian’s African American Museum Spaces" and the chapter "Identity as Profession: on Becoming an African American Panamanian Afro-Latina Anthropologist Curator" in Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism. She's is passionate about Afro-Latinidad, her Omega Phi Beta sisterhood, social justice, radical love, the Duke Blue Devils and hoop earrings.
Like the legendary love potion that the Toloache flower is used for in Mexico, the ladies of Flor de Toloache cast a spell over their audiences with soaring vocals and physical elegance.
Latin Grammy-winning, New York-based all-female ensemble Flor de Toloache win the hearts of both progressive and traditional mariachi music fans alike through their distinct artistic vision and sophisticated, enlightened interpretation of traditional mariachi instruments. The female quartet’s diverse ethnicities and musical backgrounds transcend culture and gender by forging new paths.
The group is led by co-band directors Mireya I. Ramos on violin and Shae Fiol on vihuela. Together, they have graced international stages from Chenai, India, to Paris and have extensively toured the US as a supporting act for The Arcs, a new project from Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, as well as Cafe Tacvba, La Santa Cecilia and Natalia Lafourcade.
Shohini Ghose explores the strange quantum world of atoms and photons to understand the fundamental laws of the universe and harness them for quantum computing and communication -- and works to make science accessible and inclusive for people of all genders and backgrounds.
At Morgan Stanley, Carla Harris is responsible for improving the access to capital for female and multicultural founders, as well as increasing client connectivity to enhance revenue generation.
In her 30-year career, Carla Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial and healthcare sectors. In August 2013, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women's Business Council. Harris was named to Fortune Magazine's list of "The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America," US Banker's "Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance" (2009, 2010, 2011), Black Enterprise's "Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business" (2017) and "Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street," Essence Magazine's list of "The 50 Women Who Are Shaping the World" and Ebony's list of the "Power 100" and "15 Corporate Women at the Top." She is the past chair of the board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and of The Executive Leadership Council, and she is a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University and the board of directors of the Walmart Corporation. She's the author of the books Strategize to Win and Expect to Win.
In her other life, Harris is a singer and has released three gospel CDs, including Unceasing Praise, Joy Is Waiting, and Carla's First Christmas, which was featured on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. She has performed five sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall.
Katharine Hayhoe studies what climate change means to us in the places where we live.
As Katharine Hayhoe writes: "I'm a climate scientist: I crunch the data, I analyze the models, and I help people like engineers and city managers and water planners prepare for the ways climate change affects all of us. I'm a professor in political science at Texas Tech University, where I direct the Climate Science Center. I'm also a lead author for the US National Climate Assessment; I host the PBS Digital Series Global Weirding; and I spend a lot of time talking to people about climate science, impacts, solutions and how they connect to our values. I've been named one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People," Fortune's "50 Greatest Leaders" and Foreign Policy's "100 Leading Global Thinkers."
"These are all tremendous honors, for which I'm enormously grateful. What means the most, though, is when just one person tells me sincerely that they had never cared about climate change before, or even thought it was real: but now, because of something they heard me say, they've changed their mind. That's what makes it all worthwhile."
Maeve Higgins started off as a standup comedian, but eventually started to write things down to help her make sense of the world.
Maeve Higgins is the host of the hit podcast Maeve in America: Immigration IRL. She has performed all over the world and is now based in New York, where she co-hosts Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk on National Geographic and has appeared in Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer. Her new book is Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else.
As Higgins writes: "I am extremely curious and am constantly finding out things I didn't even know I didn't know. I get a kick out of making people laugh, but I also worry a lot, so my head is an odd place to be, but I like it. These days I follow my curiosity, so if I suddenly wonder why most of the nannies in my neighborhood are women of color, and most of the children they take care of are white, I make it my job to figure out how it got to be that way. I research and ask questions and write about that. People are surprised to hear that I ended up here after starting out as a comedian, but I know that for me, comedy was always a way to figure things out, and as I grew up, my questions just got a little more expansive. I moved to the US five years ago and being an immigrant has also opened my eyes to a lot."
Ayanna Howard designs and builds robots that learn from and interact with people, in order to help improve quality of life.
As an educator, researcher and innovator, Dr. Ayana Howard focuses on designing intelligent robots to enhance our daily lives. She is professor and chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her published works, currently numbering more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, have been widely disseminated in international journals and conference proceedings. She continues to produce novel research and ideas focused on applications that span from assistive robots in the home to AI-powered STEM apps for children with diverse learning needs.
Howard began her career working as a roboticist at NASA in the early '90s and then transitioned into academia in the early 2000s. In 2013, she also founded Zyrobotics, which is focused on developing STEM educational products to engage children of all abilities. Her accomplishments have received numerous recognitions, including highlights in USA Today, Upscale and TIME Magazine. She was named a top young innovator by MIT Technology Review and was recognized as one of the 23 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider.
Dolores Huerta is inspired by a passion to spend most of her time pursuing social justice and civil rights.
Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for more than 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice president and played a critical role in many of the union's accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship, which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF).
DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters, advocate for education reform, bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities, advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards including The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012, President Obama bestowed Huerta with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
Lindy Lou Isonhood served as Juror No. 2 on a capital murder trial in 1994 -- an experience that changed her life.
As Lindy Lou Isonhood writes: "I was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in December 1951 and was raised by my grandmother, a widow with nine children. She was my salvation. From her nurturing I acquired my integrity, independence and strength. She impacted the lives of all around her. I was employed for over half my life: as a federal police officer in the 1970s, then I went on to be the first female letter carrier with the US Postal Service in Jackson for seven years, followed by 18 years in the MS Army National Guard. I ended my working career as an office manager after 13 years with an architectural firm.
"A strong Christian, I am married to a retired colonel who is a very staunch conservative, like me. I'm the mother of two children, a son and a daughter, and three grandchildren -- all girls! The hearts of my life! There is nothing extraordinary about me. I have never achieved fame or any outstanding records or recognition. Never received a college degree although I have many accumulated hours. But my life reached a turning point when I served as a juror in the sentencing phase of a capital murder trial in 1994. This experience changed me from the inside out."
Eldra Jackson III works daily to connect to his most authentic self -- and his calling is to support others in doing the same.
Eldra Jackson III is a spiritual warrior who lives a passion of "saving lives one circle at a time." After living most of his life devoid of emotions and coming face-to-face with the reality of dying behind bars, he came to a point of self-inquiry, seeking answers as to how his life had spiraled into a mass of destruction set upon self and others. From this point, the space was made to save his life.
Today, Jackson works to bring his spiritual medicine into the world while simultaneously guiding others to tap into their own internal salve and help identify wounds. Through his intensive awareness work, he is on a mission to show the world what's possible as each person does their own internal examination to begin the path towards emotional and psychic health. Learn more about him in the documentary The Work.
Award-winning journalist Neha Madhira fights for press freedom for high school students.
Neha Madhira is 17 years old and a senior at Prosper High School in Texas. She was accidentally moved into journalism two years ago, and started competing in UIL Academic competitions because of the passion her former adviser, Lori Oglesbee, showed for writing. She won 19 journalism awards over two years, achieving All-State journalism both years and a National Quill and Scroll Gold Key last year.
Currently, she is Editor-in-Chief of her high school’s paper, Eagle Nation Online. After her principal prior-reviewed and censored the paper, banned editorials and fired Ms. Oglesbee last year, Madhira spoke out, along with fellow journalist Haley Stack. For their advocacy, the two were nominated for the National Courage in Journalism award and honored by the Women's Media Center. Madhira is a student leader of the New Voices movement in Texas and speaks about the importance of students’ and teachers’ rights across the country.
Helen Marriage cofounded a company that specializes in creating disruptive, whole-city arts events that surprise and delight everyone who comes across them.
Helen Marriage writes: "I am a producer of large-scale disruptive moments that place an artist's ideas in the heart of a city. I started life unsure of how to find a job and began helping a street theater company perform at the Edinburgh Festival. Only then did I realize that this could be a career. That was forty years ago. Since then, I've gone on to shut down central London and other cities with ephemeral events that transform people’s understanding of what a city is for and who controls it.
"I don't believe that cities are exclusively about shopping and traffic. Over the years I've developed a real sense of how artists can change the world, if only we make space for their vision. I guess that's my job -- to create a context in which the normal routines of daily life are disrupted for a moment to allow the public, especially those who know they’re not interested in anything the arts might have to say, to discover a new world we’d all like to live in."
Majd Mashharawi leads a startup that makes bricks from recycled local materials -- and employs women in the Gaza Strip.
Nora McInerny makes a living talking to people about life's hardest moments.
Nora McInerny speaks from experience and empathy, having lost her second baby, her father and her husband over the course of six weeks at age 31. She is the best-selling author of the memoir It’s Okay To Laugh, Crying Is Cool Too, the host of the award-winning podcast "Terrible, Thanks for Asking" and the founder of the nonprofit Still Kickin. She contributes words to Elle, Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed, Time, Slate and Vox, where she's often tapped for her essays highlighting the emotional landscape and humor in complex topics, like the financial impacts of healthcare and grief in a digital age.
McInerny is a master storyteller known for her dedication to bringing heart and levity to the difficult and uncomfortable conversations most of us try to avoid, and also for being very tall. She was voted "Most Humorous" by the Annunciation Catholic School Class of 1998.
Aja Monet is a Caribbean American poet, performer and educator born in Brooklyn, New York.
Aja Monet started actively reading and reciting poetry in the New York City youth poetry/slam community in high school with an organization called Urban Word NYC. Her poems are lyrical, wise and courageous. She received her BA in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2009 and her MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. While at Sarah Lawrence College, Monet was awarded the legendary Nuyorican Poet's Café Grand Slam title in 2007. She has been internationally recognized for combining her spellbound voice and vivid poetic imagery on stage. While in college, she used music and poetry to help organize urgent responses to natural disasters in New Orleans and later on in Haiti as well as local community issues. In 2015, she was invited by the Dream Defenders to be a part of a movement delegation to Palestine, and she has continued to work in collaboration with cultural workers and organizers to demonstrate radical solidarity.
In 2018, Monet’s first full collection of poetry, my mother was a freedom fighter, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. She read the title poem of her collection at the national Women’s March on Washington DC in 2017 to commemorate women of the Diaspora. In 2012, she collaborated with poet/musician Saul Williams on the book Chorus, an anthem of a new generation of poets.
Monet currently lives in Little Haiti, Miami, where she is cofounder of Smoke Signals Studio, a collective dedicated to music, art, culture and organizing. In collaboration with Community Justice Project and inspired by poet June Jordan's revolutionary blueprint, Monet facilitates "Voices: Poetry for the People," a grassroots workshop for organizers and community leaders. In 2018, the workshop created the first annual Maroon Poetry Festival in Liberty City, Miami, to honor artists and cultural workers for their commitment to radical truth-telling. A lover of art, music, and poetry, Monet has continued to collaborate with artists across all genres including musicians Vijay Iyer, Samora Pinderhughes, Gerald Clayton and visual artists Carrie Mae Weems, Mike Schreiber and countless more. She volunteers at Dade Correctional Facility teaching "Poetry for the People" with an organization called Exchange for Change.
As Monique W. Morris writes: "I believe in a justice not associated with any form of oppression. I work for it and I write about it."
Monique W. Morris, EdD, founded and leads the National Black Women's Justice Institute, an organization that works to transform public discourses on the criminalization of Black women, girls and their families. For three decades, she has been involved in social justice advocacy and scholarship, working with research and academic institutions, civil rights organizations, nonprofits, public agencies and activists to advance policies and practices that promote racial and gender equity. She's the author of Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools and other books, publications and articles.
As Morris writes: "My work is ultimately about using research and narratives to challenge actions and structures of oppression. I do this using the tools I have available to me as a researcher, educator, public intellectual, visual artist, writer -- and most recently, filmmaker. I am the author of several academic publications and four books, each of them very different. From a street novel about prostitution to a statistical narrative about African Americans in the 21st century to a book about the criminalization of Black girls in schools, I try to meet people where they are on this journey toward freedom. My latest project, a dive into the pedagogical practices that make education freedom work, explores how schools might become locations of healing for Black and Brown girls. And I love Prince. Always have, always will."
Beth Mortimer is a scientific researcher interested in how animals use vibrations along surfaces and through materials for information.
As Beth Mortimer writes: "I believe that through studying nature we can gain useful insights for new technologies. I am pioneering this approach for an overlooked form of information transfer: vibrations that travel along surfaces and through materials. I study how animals use this information source, which is widespread from spiders and worms to humans and elephants. My research enables me to gain insights for potential new technologies, for example monitoring elephant behavior in remote locations or developing vibration sensors for robots to monitor dangerous machinery.
"I am a biologist by training and have collaborated across scientific disciplines throughout my research career. I have worked with engineers, material scientists, seismologists and computer scientists to learn cutting-edge techniques that I can use to study information transfer with animals. My goal for the next five to seven years is to develop usable technologies for remote monitoring, learning from the biological systems I study."
Danielle R. Moss is chief executive officer of Oliver Scholars, helping it prepare high-potential Black and Latinx students from underserved New York City communities for success.
Dr. Danielle R. Moss is Chief Executive Officer of Oliver Scholars, an organization committed to preparing high-potential Black and Latinx students from underserved New York City communities for success at top independent schools, prestigious colleges and careers. She is also a member of The New York Women's Foundation board of directors and serves as an NYC Commissioner of Gender Equity. She began her career as a middle school teacher in the Bronx and Brooklyn, building a distinguished career as an academic and a leader in the education and the social sector. Dr. Moss's contributions to education and the social sector have been recognized by the New York State Education Department, The New York Women's Foundation, The New York Coalition for 100 Black Women, The College Board, The Network Journal's 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business and The Council of Urban Professionals.
Moss has been featured in the New York Times "Corner Office" and in Crain's New York for her leadership in the movement toward intersectional gender equity. Her writing has been featured by The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Edutopia, The Amsterdam News, City Limits Magazine, Ms. Magazine online and the Feminist Wire. She's appeared on WABC-TV's Here and Now and New York Viewpoint, on WNBC's Positively Black, Fox 5's Street Talk, Bronx Net's Perspectives and NY1's Inside City Hall. Stanley Crouch, formerly of the New York Daily News, once dubbed her one of the most important players in public education for her ability to respectfully meet young people and families where they are and to give them the tools and agency to transform their own lives.
Farida Nabourema is a key voice in Togo’s pro-democracy movement.
A political activist and writer, Farida Nabourema has been a fearless advocate for democracy and human rights in Togo since she was a teenager. Through more than 400 articles on her blog and other sites, she denounces corruption and dictatorship and promotes a form of progressive pan-Africanism. In 2014, she published La Pression de l'Oppression (The Pressure of Oppression), in which she discussed the different forms of oppression that people face throughout Africa and highlighted the need for oppressed people to fight back.
Nabourema is also the engagement and collaboration coordinator of Africans Rising, a pan-African movement that fights for justice, peace and dignity through grassroots organizing, civic education and advocacy. She cofounded and is the executive director of the Togolese Civil League, an NGO that promotes democracy through civil resistance. In 2001, at age 20, Nabourema founded the "Faure Must Go" movement, where she supported and organized with Togolese youths to stand against the dictatorial regime of Faure Gnassingbé. "Faure Must Go" has become the slogan for the civil resistance movement in Togo, of which Nabourema is one of the most well-known leaders.
Nabourema was awarded the "Young Advocate of the Year" and the "Female African Youth of the Year" in 2018 by Africa Youth Award for her contribution to raising awareness on the oldest military regime in Africa.
Driven by curiosity and appreciation for the complex, beautiful, diverse and dynamic world around us, Tarje Nissen-Meyer is trying to decipher this vibrating planet by analyzing data from human and biological interaction with our precious environment and modern technology.
As Tarje Nissen-Meyer writes: "Much like gazing at the sky, I wonder how our pristine planet functions. Where does hot magma come from, why can't we predict earthquakes, what is the link between climate and Earth, where does life come from and how does it end, and can we find extraterrestrial life? Society depends on the environment: how can we provide clean energy for ten billion people, deal with water scarcity, sea level rise, natural hazards? These are research themes in geophysics, and they require quantitative reasoning.
"In my own research, I develop methods for earthquake waves for free use, work on mapping Earth's interior, earthquake hazard, cyclones and elephant communication. I believe education and science play an ever larger role in extracting useful information from the ever-increasing amount of data to deliver critical decision-making skills and evaluating uncertainties, especially in times of fake news."
Dr. Kakenya Ntaiya is the founder and president of Kakenya's Dream, an international nonprofit organization leveraging education to empower girls, end harmful traditional practices and transform communities in rural Kenya.
Engaged at age five, Dr. Kakenya Ntaiya experienced female genital mutilation (FGM) as a young teenager in preparation for marriage. Her life was set to follow the traditional Maasai path of ending school to become a wife and mother, but Ntaiya had a different dream. She negotiated with her father to return to school after surviving FGM. When she was accepted to college in the United States, she promised to use her education to help the village in exchange for their support. She went on to earn her PhD in education at the University of Pittsburgh, and returned to her community to fulfill her promise.
In 2009, the Kakenya Center for Excellence (KCE) boarding school opened its doors, serving 30 vulnerable Maasai girls in rural Kenya. Today, Kakenya's Dream reaches thousands of girls, boys and community members each year through three visionary, girl-centered programs. Ntaiya is a CNN Hero and National Geographic Emerging Explorer. She received the Feminist Majority Global Women's Rights Award and the Vital Voices Global Leadership Award. Ntaiya was also named one of Newsweek's "150 Women Who Shake the World."
Ai-jen Poo is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the co-director of Caring Across Generations. Under her leadership, domestic workers won eight state Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and federal overtime and minimum wage protections for more than two million home care workers. She is also an influential voice in the Me Too and women's movements, including participating in the Times Up action at the 2018 Golden Globes. She is a 2014 MacArthur "genius" Fellow and a TIME 100 alumna and has been a featured speaker at the United State of Women Summits, Aspen Ideas Festivals, the Obama Foundation Summit and the 2018 Women’s Convention. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME and CNN.com. She is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America.
Emily Quinn describes herself as "a ballsy intersex activist who uses humor and storytelling to create a more welcoming world for people who don’t fit in a box."
At age 10, Emily Quinn learned she was intersex. As she writes: "Doctors said not to tell anyone, poking and prodding at me like I was a science experiment. It was lonely, shameful, and I had nowhere to turn. I needed someone to tell me that it would be OK, but no one was there.
"Fourteen years later, I discovered an intersex support group, meeting hundreds of intersex people who endured trauma like mine. I knew it had to stop. I was working at Cartoon Network and decided to help create the first intersex main character on television: Lauren on MTV's 'Faking It.' I publicly came out as intersex alongside her debut, and suddenly I was bombarded with interviews, appearing in content across the web. The impact was so great that I quit my job, created a YouTube channel, began speaking globally about intersex experiences, and am now writing a YA novel. In ways I could have never imagined, I became the person I needed as a kid -- showing myself that one day it would be OK."
Jan Rader is a firefighter and a nurse.
Jan Rader joined the Huntington, West Virginia, Fire Department in August 1994. Rader is the first woman to reach the rank of chief for a career department in the State of West Virginia. She holds a Regents bachelor of arts degree from Marshall University and an associate's degree of science in nursing from Ohio University. She holds many fire service certifications and is also a fire and EMS instructor in the State of West Virginia.
Since November 2014, Rader has been serving as a member of the Mayor's Office of Drug Control Policy. The purpose of this task force is to address drug addiction in Huntington and the surrounding communities and create a holistic approach involving prevention, treatment and law enforcement. Rader recently came to national prominence after the release of the short documentary Heroin(e) by Netflix in September 2017. In April 2018, she was chosen as one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World."
Nivruti Rai is vice president in the data center group and country head for India at Intel Corporation.
At Intel, Nivruti Rai provides engineering and business unit leadership, driving innovation, cross-group efficiencies and execution for engineering teams delivering global products and roadmaps. She also leads engagements with national and local governments and policymakers as well as collaboration with ecosystem players to enable innovation and entrepreneurship.
Rai joined Intel in 1995 and subsequently worked in the CPU development organization in Oregon. She led the effort to conserve chip power in microprocessors by selectively using high-performance devices and pioneered the use of error-correcting codes to reduce operating voltages and memories, becoming a principal engineer in 2003. She moved to India in 2005 to manage R&D of mobile platform technologies used for handheld and laptop computers. In 2013, her team was awarded an Intel Achievement Award for contributing to the development of the Minute Intel architecture core. In her most recent role as vice president in Intel's platform engineering group, Rai led teams across the United States, Costa Rica, Israel, Malaysia and India charged with developing innovative analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) blocks and IP subsystems for Intel's system-on-chip products. She also managed the emerging technologies group in India, developing machine learning and computer vision soft IP.
As the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund for 12 years, Cecile Richards worked to increase affordable access to reproductive health care and to build a healthier and safer world for women and young people. In 2018, she stepped down from leadership and published the book Make Trouble.
After starting her career as a labor organizer working with women earning the minimum wage, Richards went on to start her own grassroots organizations and later served as deputy chief of staff to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. In 2011 and 2012, she was named one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World." Richards is a frequent speaker and commentator on politics and progressive issues.
Karissa Sanbonmatsu investigates how DNA allows cells in our body to remember events that take place.
Dr. Karissa Sanbonmatsu is a principal investigator at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the New Mexico Consortium, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
As a principal investigator, Sanbonmatsu has advanced our understanding of the mechanism of the ribosome, antibiotics and riboswitches. She published some of the first structural studies of epigenetic long non-coding RNAs and is currently studying the mechanism of epigenetic effects involving chromatin architecture. She uses a combination of wetlab biochemistry, supercomputers and cryogenic electron microscopy to investigate mechanism in atomistic detail. She is on the board of Equality New Mexico and the Gender Identity Center and is an advocate for LGBT people in the sciences.
Through her nonprofit, Bodhi Tree Foundation, Ashweetha Shetty supports first-generation college students in rural India to explore their potential through education, life skills and opportunities.
As a girl in a poor orthodox community in a south Indian village, Ashweetha Shetty was constantly told that her birth was not celebrated and that she would be a liability to her family. The social norms prescribed for her identity silenced her dreams, thoughts and aspirations. But through the power of education, she became a first-generation college graduate and had a chance to rewrite the possibilities for her life. As she says: "I always wanted to add my bit to their inspiring journey."
As a high school student, Haley Stack fights for freedom of the press.
Haley Stack is 16 years old and a junior at Prosper High School in Texas. She is Assistant Editor of the school’s newspaper, Eagle Nation Online. She started journalism her freshman year and has been on staff since. She's on the UIL Academic Journalism team and has won numerous awards, including an award for Excellence in Commentary Writing at the Journalism Educators Association. She was honored at the Women's Media Center gala in November 2018, where she won the Young Journalist award.
In February 2018, Stack wrote an editorial over the removal of A Separate Peace by John Knowles from the 10th grade curriculum. The article was censored by her principal because he claimed Stack’s story was negative, used the word ‘banned’ instead of ‘removed’, and contained grammatical errors. (The errors were an extra period and a missing apostrophe.) This was one out of three articles that were censored at the paper leading to Stack, fellow student journalist Neha Madhira, and her staff speaking out with the help of the Student Press Law Center. Several news outlets covered their story, including NBC 5, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times.
Stack continues to fight for student press rights through New Voices, a student-led legislative movement attempting to protect students from censorship and protect advisers from being pushed out. Stack hopes to continue her fight and further her journalistic education in college.
In her work, the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis makes a theological case for ending poverty.
The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church, the director of the Kairos Center for Rights, Religions, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary and the co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She has spent the past two decades organizing amongst the poor and dispossessed in the United States. She has led hundreds of trainings and bible studies and recently published Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor.
In 2018, alongside the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber, Theoharis helped to launch the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Over the coming years, the campaign will organize poor people across race, religion, geography, political party and other so-called lines of division to fuel a moral revolution of values in the country.
Amanda Williams blurs the distinction between art and architecture through works that employ color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place and value in cities.
The landscapes in which Amanda Williams operates are the visual residue of the invisible policies and forces that have misshapen most inner cities. Her installations, paintings, video and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar -- and raise questions about the state of urban space in America in the process.
Williams has exhibited widely, including the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, a solo exhibition at the MCA Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. She is a 2018 United States Artists Fellow, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors grantee, an Efroymson Family Arts Fellow, a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and a member of the multidisciplinary Museum Design team for the Obama Presidential Center. She is this year's Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago and has previously served as a visiting assistant professor of architecture at Cornell University and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives and works on Chicago's south side.
Paula Stone Williams is a pastor, counselor, speaker, LGBTQ ambassador and gender equity advocate.
The Reverend Dr. Paula Stone Williams knows the truth will set you free, but only after it upends your carefully constructed narrative. Her devotion to authenticity caused her to leave her comfort zone as a nationally known religious leader and follow her heart to transition from Paul to Paula. She lost all of her jobs and most of her friends. Williams also discovered the massive differences between life as a male and as a female in America.
Williams is the pastor of preaching and worship at Left Hand Church in Longmont, Colorado, a pastoral counselor with RLT Pathways and a sought-after speaker to corporations, government agencies, universities and religious institutions on issues of gender equity and LGBTQ advocacy. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Denver Post, New Scientist, Radio New Zealand, Colorado Public Radio and The Huffington Post. Her TEDxMileHigh talk on gender equity has had more than one million views.
Jonathan Williams likes to tell stories and throw parties, so he started a church that allowed him to do both.
After teaching fifth grade in West Philadelphia for seven years, Jonathan Williams decided to join the family business and become a pastor like his father. He started a church in Brooklyn, NY, and just three months later faced a religious and personal reckoning when his father announced her transition from male to female. Williams decided that his church would become an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, forever shifting the landscape in his personal and professional life.
Williams continues to lead Forefront Church in Brooklyn. In January 2019, he released his book, She's My Dad: A Father’s Transition and a Son's Redemption, published by Westminster John Knox Press. Williams has told his story to the New York Times, Huffington Post, Christian Standard Magazine, Faithfully Magazine and Rebel Storytellers.
Marian Wright Edelman fights for a level playing field for all children, so their chances to succeed don't have to depend on the lottery of birth.
Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president emerita of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation's strongest voice for children and families. The CDF's "Leave No Child Behind" mission is "to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities."
Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-'60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1968, she moved to Washington, DC as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm and the parent body of the CDF. For two years she served as the director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and in 1973 began CDF. Edelman served on the Board of Trustees of Spelman College, which she chaired from 1976 to 1987, and was the first woman elected by alumni as a member of the Yale University Corporation, on which she served from 1971 to 1977. She has received more than 100 honorary degrees and many awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian award -- and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings.
The cofounder of Smoke Signals Studio, phillip agnew is a nationally recognized educator, strategist, trainer, speaker and cultural critic.
phillip agnew cofounded the Dream Defenders in 2012 after the murder of Trayvon Martin and has been dubbed "one of this generation’s leading voices" and recognized by both EBONY magazine and The Root as one of the 100 most influential African Americans in the nation. He emerged as a national activist when he helped to organize students from FAMU, Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College in the creation of the Student Coalition for Justice, which was formed in response to the Martin Lee Anderson case.
agnew is the cofounder of Miami's Smoke Signals Studio -- a community based radical artistic space -- with his partner, poet Aja Monet. Smoke Signals Studio is a space where those invested in using art, sound and music as a meeting place for transformation and liberation can come to create together.
In 2018, agnew transitioned from his role as codirector of the Dream Defenders and now travels the country teaching and organizing outside of the movement bubble. He has spoken at colleges and conferences around the country and was a featured speaker at TEDWomen 2018 and SXSW in 2019. agnew is member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and a Board Member for Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Yvonne van Amerongen is an occupational therapist and a social worker.
Before 1983, when Yvonne van Amerongen started working for the nursing home Hogewey, she worked in a hospital for psychiatric diseases and in a rehabilitation center. In 1992 she was the care manager of the traditional nursing home Hogewey when the management team started thinking about the vision of care for people living with severe dementia. In 1993, this vision was the basis for the development of what now is the neighborhood The Hogeweyk, with 27 houses for more than 170 seniors with severe dementia. Van Amerongen was the project leader and one of the founders of the vision for excellent care, living and well-being for people with severe dementia and of neighborhood The Hogeweyk.
Van Amerongen now works as a consultant for Be, supporting and advising healthcare organizations, governments, architects and project starters around the world to improve the quality of life of people living with dementia. Be is part of the Vivium Care group (non-profit), also the owner of The Hogeweyk. | 2019-04-20T01:35:15 | https://tedwomen2018.ted.com/speakers | [
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Let’s say you have an established practice. A “suit” could literally just walk in and offer to purchase your practice. Maybe your office was recommend to Heartland by colleague. If that sale goes through, your colleague will be themselves a tidy bonus…let’s call it a finders fee – $2500 to $5000 or there about.
Heartland professes your office just becoming an “affiliate” – a term used quite loosely in the the world of corporate dentistry. But it has to be true, right? It’s everywhere! It’s all they say, they never mention owning dental clinics, just Heartland Affiliated Dental Centers.
They offer you a large sum of money to “affiliate”. A sum which is likely much more than the practice is actually worth if it were for sale.
But you’re not selling, right? You are simply becoming “affiliated” with Heartland so they can help you with your day to day operations – marketing, advertising, software, billing, etc.
For whatever reason, you decided to take their offer. and become a Heartland Dental “affiliated” dental center. What happens then?
In the employment agreement, they will agree to a not so bad salary, $120K –$150K a year, plus a percentage of profits. By profits, I mean “net” profits.
Contrary to what Heartland said, you just sold your practice and you just became their employee.
Yes, that is what is said, but it’s a lie. You are simply their employee forever more, or until you can get fired.
So you are now “affiliated” with Heartland Dental. What happens next?
You and your entire staff are whisked off to Effingham, IL for training. I say entire staff, but that might not be the staff you planned on keeping around. That staffing choice is no longer yours to decide – it’s Heartland Dental’s. There just went all that control of your practice promised!
Heartland Dental didn’t need that new $7.7 million training facility – HDC Institute. for nothing. They are going to be training you!
In fact, it’s likely any future training you get will be right there in Effingham at Heartland Dental.
While your office is closed, not producing income, and you and your staff are away at training camp, things maybe happening back at the office. A team may be invade what was once your office. This team is there to strip out your equipment and replace it with Heartlands. What was once your equipment, will be replace Heartland’s own – which could, and likely will, be of lesser quality. But hey, it’s got their software already loaded and ready to go.
Chop! Chop! Get to work!
What happens at the 1 to 2 week training sessions, other than your balance sheet taking a dive – remember, if you are in Effingham, you ain’t workin’. You and staff are learning the Heartland Way, that’s what.
Mr. Dentist, you are now to do nothing but procedures. You will do them as we are teaching you, it’s the only way you can meet the goals we are setting for your “affiliated” clinic. We might throw in some orthodontics training on a three day trip, if other revenue sources are needed, who knows.
Oh and the “partnership” plan mention in the propaganda piece, it’s really an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). While most ESOP’s are stock given to the employee at no cost, you might be asked to “contribute” a $100K to Heartland’s ESOP. Doesn’t that just sound yummy. You get $100k worth of Heartland Stock. Rick get’s money for lunch.
It’s called a PA, not Public Address System nor, Physician's Assistant, but Practice Administrator. These little jewels go through extensive training at HDC Institute and are taught how to “handle” unruly dentists, so don’t be unruly.
Continuing Education? That will be done right at HDC Institute. You will get what they are serving. No matter if you could get it locally, for 1/3 the fee, less time away from the office.
Ms. Office Manager, you are now in charge of all treatment plans, presenting said plans to patients and pricing. [Nothing like a medically untrained office staff talking tell a patient about complicated medical procedures to make said patient safe!] If you can’t handle it, Ms. Office Manager, we have someone trained to step in at any time, but under no circumstance will Mr. Dentist being doing treatment plans. He’s to produce, nothing more.
Nothing is for free, ya know.
That training Heartland demands, costs money and your clinic’s revenues is going to pay for every dime of it. Could be as much as $3k-$5k per day. A Friday, Saturday, Sunday, pep rally, well, that may be $10k.
The Heartland brand continuing education, well that will come off your “affiliated” clinic’s bottom line. too. Not only that, but you pay, what Heartland wants to charge. So what if you could get it cheaper and closer to your home. So what your office could be seeing patients those days.
If Rick Workman has to fly someone in to get you lined back out, for under production. It is going to cost ya. Every business mile driven, every night in a hotel, every meal they eat, your clinic picks up that tab. The college educated psychology grad - who is really just a company dental hygienist - sent to assess your nonproductive ways, will also be expensed out to your clinic.
Prizes and gifts for company wide employees, those are expensed out among the “affiliated” clinics too. Remember that bonus your colleague got for recommending your practice to Heartland, yeah, it will be charged to your “affiliated” clinic.
Monthly seminars to Effingham,IL, are going to cost you as well. Every night in the hotel, every chicken leg you eat, it’s coming out of your “affiliated” clinic’s account. Think you will be given a breakdown of what Heartland Headquarters has expensed to your “affiliated” clinic, think again! Those are not for your eyes.
You know the new HCD Institute will be expensed out to each Heartland Dental “affiliated” dental center as well. It has to be, everything else is.
Last but not least, your “affiliated” clinic has to pay Heartland for all the administrative services as well. | 2019-04-23T02:47:48 | https://blog.dentistthemenace.com/2012/10/a-peek-under-sheets-at-heartland-dental.html | [
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An angiographic catheter is described with a valve covering the end-hole on the distal end. The valve will allow the catheter to be passed over a guidewire but will prevent an injected fluid (e.g., a contrast medium) from being discharged from the end hole. The valved-end catheter has side-holes near the distal end that provide for lateral discharge of the fluid thereby preventing the creation of an end-hole jet and the resulting undesirable effects of the jet.
Angiographic catheters are very small but long thin-walled tubes that are inserted into the human vascular system for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. At the present time, almost all such catheters have an end-hole at the distal end so that the catheter can be passed over and guided by a wire which has been inserted into the vascular system through a hollow needle placed in a blood vessel. Also, because these catheters are open at both ends to allow passage over the guidewire, one catheter can be exchanged for another by replacing the wire and withdrawing the catheter over the wire.
When used in diagnostic procedures, the primary purpose of these catheters is to allow injection of radiopaque contrast material into the blood stream so as to produce an image of the blood vessel (an angiogram) on x-ray film. During the process of diagnostic angiography, the contrast medium is usually injected at a rapid rate using a power injector, and the contrast medium is forcefully discharged from the distal end-hole of the catheter creating a jet effect. This produces undesirable recoil of the catheter and can also produce a dangerous complication, subintimal injection of the contrast medium, in which the jet tunnels into the wall of the blood vessel sometimes resulting in acute occlusion of the vessel.
To minimize the undesirable effect of recoil and the potential complication of subintimal injection, some early catheter designs had sealed distal ends with side-holes near the distal end to allow injection of the contrast medium into the blood vessel laterally and symmetrically thereby reducing subintimal injections. Of course, with the sealed distal end, these catheters cannot be inserted into a blood vessel over a guidewire, and therefore this design is not widely used. Most catheters presently used for rapid flush angiography are configured with a circular loop or "pigtail" at the distal end. Although the end-hole is open, these pigtail type catheters are provided with side-holes through which approximately 40% of the contrast medium is discharged. Although the looped end of the catheter decreases somewhat the chance of subintimal injection, the open end-hole still allows approximately 60% of the contrast medium to exit the end-hole in a strong jet. During left ventriculography, this jet has been associated with the production of ventricular arrhythmias which can be dangerous to the patient and which can lessen the accuracy of the acquired physiologic data. To overcome the limitations of the pigtail catheter in cardiac angiography, various modifications have been attempted to the pigtail configuration, such as a multiple loop configuration or formation of a bend at an acute angle in the distal portion of the catheter. However, these modifications have not satisfactorily alleviated the problems associated with the use of any catheter which has an open end-hole.
Moreover, when catheters of this type are used during abdominal aortography, it is sometimes desirable to have the contrast medium injected in a lateral fashion to opacify the renal arteries which arise at right angles to the abdominal aorta. The pigtail catheter, including known modifications of it, tends to inject the contrast medium in a superior direction through the superiorally directed end-hole. This produces the undesirable effect of filling the blood vessels superior to the renal arteries which can obscure visualization of the anatomic structures being observed.
There is therefore a need for a catheter which can be inserted into the vascular system by passing it over a guidewire but which catheter will have the advantages of a closed-end catheter.
The catheter of the invention has formed over the end-hole at its distal end a two-way valve which opens to allow passage of a guidewire and closes upon removal of the guidewire to prevent discharge of fluid from the end-hole of the catheter. In one embodiment, the catheter is formed with side-holes for discharge of the fluid, such as a contrast medium, and the principles of the invention can be utilized in a balloon occlusion catheter because all of the fluid will be discharged proximally to the balloon through the end-holes. When used with a ballon for coronary or small vessel peripheral angioplasty, no side holes are formed in the catheter, thus creating a single lumen over-the-wire angioplasty ballon catheter. The valve at the distal end of the catheter may be formed by several slits along radial lines in a solid tubular piece of material similar to the material used in the catheter itself. However, the material must have sufficient elasticity so that the valve remains normally closed and is opened only when a guidewire is advanced in either direction against the valve.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view that illustrates the principles of the invention as applied to a balloon occlusion catheter.
The intravascular catheter of the invention has an elongated tubular wall 10 that defines a longitudinally extending lumen or passageway 12 extending throughout the length of the catheter. The catheter is constructed of any suitable material that has the required strength and flexibility which will permit the catheter to be inserted into a blood vessel for use in various diagnostic and therapeutic applications where it is necessary to inject a fluid, such as a contrast medium, into the body. There are a number of plastic materials presently available that are suitable for this use, such as various forms of soft polyurethanes, soft polyesters guidewire. When the guidewire is removed, the resiliency of the flaps 22 will once again close off the distal end 14.
The distal end 14 may be either normally straight as shown in the drawings, or distal end 14 may be shaped into a circular pigtail configuration similar to that of presently used catheters which have a closed distal end. The principles of the invention therefore can be applied to pigtail catheters which are used extensively in ventriculography.
In FIG. 4 there is illustrated a balloon occlusion catheter to which the principles of the invention have been applied by positioning valve 16 at the distal end. In this balloon occulsion catheter, there is in addition to the outer wall 10 an interior tube 24 that provides a passageway or lumen 26 which carries fluid, such as air, to an expandable wall or balloon 28 formed in the wall 10 near its distal end 14 downstream from the side-holes 18. The expandable wall or balloon 28 can therefore be inflated using lumen 26 so as to occlude flow through the blood vessel. As in the other embodiments of the invention, when the catheter is inserted into the blood vessel using a guidewire, as soon as the end of the guidewire engages the flaps 22 of valve 16, the flaps 22 will flex to permit passage of the guidewire until such time as it is withdrawn. When the guidewire is withdrawn, valve 16 will close and remain closed, thus allowing for all of the fluid flowing through passageway 12 to be discharged through side-holes 18.
The principles of the invention also can be applied to balloon catheters with no side holes, thereby allowing guidewire insertion and low density polyethylenes. The passageway 12 normally terminates in an end-hole or discharge opening at the distal end 14 of the catheter, but the invention provides a valve, indicated generally by the reference numeral 16, that covers the end-hole. Valve 16 may be formed in any suitable manner. For example, valve 16 may be formed at the outer end of a solid tubular end piece 20 of relatively short length which is fused or otherwise suitably attached at the distal end 14 of the wall 10 of the catheter.
The desired action of valve 16 may be created by a plurality of flaps 22 formed by one or more cuts, such as radially extending slits, in the outer end of end piece 20. In the alternative, a pin hole could be formed in the outer end of the end piece 20, the pin hole being just large enough to permit the passage of a guidewire. The flaps 22 are preferably formed of the same basic material as the material that forms the wall 10 of the catheter, but the material forming flaps 22 must have sufficient elasticity to perform the valve function in the manner described herein.
In one embodiment of the invention, upstream from the valve 16 are a plurality of side-holes 18 formed in the wall 10 of the catheter to provide for lateral discharge of fluid flowing through the passageway 12 of the catheter. The flaps 22 normally close the end-hole at distal end 14 and substantially seal off distal end 14 so that any fluid introduced into the passageway 12 is discharged through the side-holes 18. However, when the end of a guidewire (not shown) strikes the flaps 22 from either direction, the flaps 22 will bend a sufficient amount to permit the passage of the and balloon inflation through a single passageway. Similarly, the valved end construction utilizing the principles of the invention will allow an angioplasty balloon to be inflated through the same lumen used to pass the catheter over a guidewire thus creating a single lumen over-the-wire angioplasty balloon. This would allow the catheter diameter to be reduced significantly which would be useful in coronary angioplasty and small vessel peripheral angioplasty.
The operation and use of the catheter of the invention is evident from the foregoing description. When the catheter of the invention is properly used, catheter recoil will be greatly reduced if not eliminated since the contrast medium, for example, will be discharged from the catheter laterally in a symmetrical fashion through the side-holes. Also, use of the valved distal end will greatly reduce the chance of subintimal contrast injections since there will no longer be any jet effect from the end-hole. The catheter of the invention will also provide more accurate contrast injection in the aorta, since contrast medium is injected laterally through the side-holes. Also, infusion of other fluids, such as thrombolytic agents, is improved since these fluids can be infused evenly through multiple side-holes rather than a single end-hole of the catheter. Moreover, the catheter of the invention may be useful in nonvascular catheter applications, such as in biliary and renal catheterization procedures.
It will be thus evident to those skilled in the art that there are numerous applications for the principles of the invention and that various revisions and modifications can be made to the preferred embodiments disclosed herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is my intention, however, that all such revisions and modifications as are obvious to those skilled in the art will be included within the scope of the following claims.
1. A catheter insertable over a guidewire for introducing a fluid into a vessel of the human body, said catheter comprising a long hollow flexible tube of the desired length having a small diameter and a proximal end and a distal end, said tube having a thin wall extending between said ends to define a passageway extending throughout the length of the tube and terminating at the distal end, a plurality of side holes extending through the wall of the tube near its distal end to provide for the discharge of fluid from the passageway through the holes in the wall and into the vessel, and means closing the distal end and preventing the discharge of fluid from the passageway through the distal end, said means opening during the passage of the guidewire through the distal end.
2. The catheter of claim 1 in which the means closing the distal end is comprised of a plurality of resilient flaps that normally close off the distal end but which will flex to allow the passage of the guidewire.
3. The catheter of claim 2 in which the flaps are formed by a plurality of radial slits.
4. The catheter of claim 1 in which there is an opening in the means closing the distal end which opening is small enough to allow the passage of the guidewire without allowing the passage of fluid from the distal end.
5. A catheter for introducing a fluid into the body, said catheter comprising a tube of the desired length having a proximal end and a distal end, a thin wall extending between said ends to define a passageway extending throughout the length of the tube, the distal end terminating in an end hole that is in communication with the passageway, a plurality of side holes extending through the wall of the tube near its distal end to provide for the flow of fluid from the passageway through the wall, an inflatable means near the distal end between the side holes and the end hole, said inflatable means being normally not inflated, pressure means to controllably inflate the inflatable means from the proximal end, and valve means comprised of a plurality of resilient flaps formed by a plurality of radial slits that normally close off the end hole to prevent the discharge of fluid from the passageway through the end hole but which will flex to allow the passage of a guidewire through the valve means.
6. The catheter of claim 5 in which the pressure means includes a tube positioned inside of the passageway and extending from the proximal end terminating at the inflatable means.
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EP0599065A3 (en) * 1992-10-29 1994-08-17 Sachse Hans Tubelar ureteral conduit. | 2019-04-21T22:25:12 | https://patents.google.com/patent/US5085635A/en | [
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Do as I did, started my own business and see how much work it takes and then go from there. I have had all kinds of workers over the years; too many are just lazy wanting money. That young black girl was my best worker. | 2019-04-26T14:32:22 | https://www.bnd.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article153428314.html | [
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Stopping nearsightedness in kids and more.
This week, Dr. Sydney Spiesel discusses a way to stop the progression of nearsightedness in kids, a better method of hormone replacement therapy for women after menopause, and new developments in the search for a cause for autism. His column will start appearing a couple of times a month.
Condition: Nearsightedness, or myopia, is the most common eye problem. In the United States and Europe, about 25 percent of the adult population is nearsighted, and in much of Asia the condition is more common still. Significant myopia can have serious medical consequences. It has long been understood that the condition has a strong genetic component: Nearsighted parents are more likely to have nearsighted children. But recent research has shown that other factors contribute. For example, just as our mothers warned us, there is now evidence that doing close-up work, like reading, seems to promote the condition.
How it progresses: The eyeball of a nearsighted person is deeper than the eyeball of a person with normal vision and becomes deeper as nearsightedness progresses. Myopia often begins to develop between the ages of 6 and 8. As children grow, their nearsightedness worsens, continuing to do so long after they have stopped growing taller. Though we know a lot about factors associated with nearsightedness and its progression, we have no good ideas yet about the mechanism. But can we stop it?
New research: A recent study by Wei-Han Chua and colleagues at the Singapore National Eye Center elegantly built on older research and successfully used atropine eye drops to treat myopia in children. Atropine is a longer-lasting version of the pupil-dilating drops your doctor uses when you go for an eye exam. Available by prescription in the United States, the drops are mainly used to treat amblyopia (lazy eye) instead of the older treatment, patching, which children often hate.
Dr. Chua and his co-workers studied the progression of nearsightedness in 400 children between 6 and 12 years of age. Half the children were treated with atropine eye drops, and the other half were treated with placebo eye drops. Both kinds of drops were administered nightly to one eye, so the untreated eye could be compared with the treated one. The children were followed for two years. All used eyeglasses to correct their nearsightedness, and because atropine dilates the pupil, the lenses of the glasses self-darkened in bright light, to avoid discomfort for the children whose pupils were dilated.
Findings: The effects were extraordinary: After two years, on average, the children’s nearsightedness had not progressed in the atropine-treated eyes but had dramatically worsened in the placebo-treated and untreated eyes. Similarly, atropine-treated eyes did not become deeper, while placebo-treated and untreated eyes did. No serious adverse effects were observed in the course of the research.
Conclusion: This is extremely promising. Further work needs to be done to determine the ideal concentration of atropine in the eye drops, to find out how long the treatment needs to last, and if the effects are permanent. Because atropine interferes with close focusing, children will probably need to wear bifocals while they’re using the atropine drops. Much more research must be done to help us understand why nearsightedness develops and progresses. But in the meantime, we may have a way to head off this common problem.
Treatment: Hormone replacement therapy was introduced in 1941, when the FDA approved the use of estrogen for this purpose. Early on, HRT was prescribed with great enthusiasm. It relieved troublesome symptoms associated with menopause, including hot flashes, sleep problems, and, for some women, difficulty in concentration. And HRT (usually estrogen plus a progestin) was shown to improve the bone density of elderly women and decrease their risk for fractures.
Downside: Time and further research has shown that these gains come at a cost, however: increased risk for cardiovascular problems, stroke, and blood clots in the veins and lungs. Postmenopausal women on HRT also seem to be an increased risk for breast cancer and possibly dementia. This made many women feel they had to choose between improved quality of life and a risk of ill health and early death.
New study: Now research reported in the journal Circulation suggests a way around the blood clotting problem, at least. The researchers studied about 270 women who had developed blood clots in their veins, almost all of them postmenopausal. They were compared with more than 600 women who did not suffer from blood clots but similar in age, smoking status, and age at menopause. Among women in either group who used HRT, the study tracked whether the estrogen medication was taken orally or applied through the skin as a patch or a gel. The nature of the progestin component, if any, was also studied.
Findings: Estrogen HRT increased the risk for blood clots in the veins—but only if it was administered orally. This result is not as surprising as it might seem. A medication that’s given orally collects in the blood supply of the intestines and passes through the liver before it is distributed to the rest of the body. This causes changes in the proteins synthesized by the liver, some of which are known to increase the clotting of blood. When the estrogen in HRT is administered through the skin, by contrast, it bypasses the liver. The study also established that some progestins (there are many kinds) increase the risk of blood clotting and that others do not.
Conclusion: If these findings are confirmed, HRT skin patches or gels and careful choice of the progestin component could normalize the risk of blood clots in the veins, and also blood clots that migrate to the lungs, causing pulmonary embolism, and to the brain, causing stroke. Unfortunately, other studies suggest that administering HRT through the skin won’t affect the rate of heart disease or risk of breast cancer associated with it. HRT will still be a difficult choice. But this study at least lowers the risk and may well shift the balance for many women.
Search for a cause: It has long been clear that autism is primarily genetic in origin. The disorder is almost certainly the result not of a single abnormal gene, but rather the interaction of several. In the past, a few locations on human chromosomes have been suspected of playing a role for a scattering of patients. Now researchers have identified a genetic location on a specific chromosome that seems to be associated with the expression of autism in many patients.
Newresearch: Described in a paper with 137 authors representing 67 worldwide institutions, this finding is the first result of an audacious project conducted by the Autism Genome Project Consortium. The project started with a set of almost 1,500 families with at least two people who fall on the autism spectrum. Of this group, DNA samples from about 1,200 families could be analyzed for chromosomal similarities.
Findings: This analysis points to a hitherto unsuspected “hot spot” on chromosome 11, which seems to be related to an increased risk for the expression of autism. (The genetic function of the hot-spot location is still unclear.) Besides identifying the chromosome 11 hot spot, the data also tantalizingly hint that flaws in the gene coding for a material called neurexin, which plays a role in the development of certain cell-to-cell transmission sites (synapses), can cause autism in some cases. This trigger for autism is probably quite rare. But it suggests that the disorder is somehow related to abnormalities in the connections between nerve cells that make use of glutamate for information transmission, and defects in those transmissions. How (or even if) these two observations—the hot spot and the neruexin flaws—fit together is as yet unknown.
Conclusion: This study doesn’t tell us exactly which gene on chromosome 11 is important, but it does tell us just where to focus our attention. And the neurexin-related discovery hints at the mechanism of what might go wrong in neurodevelopment to lead to autism. These discoveries reinforce the value of collaborative work that puts together information about patients with a relatively rare disorder, from many locales, to create a pool large enough for serious research. | 2019-04-26T00:25:14 | https://slate.com/technology/2007/02/stopping-nearsightedness-and-more.html | [
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Occasionally Tuesday Morning.: Let us make a toast to the misfortunes of Venus.
Let us make a toast to the misfortunes of Venus.
Let us usher in a new year with bad high school dancing and way too many cheap toasts. Let's scream at the top of our lungs when a massive crystal ball amillion miles away touches the moment of the new beginning and offer praise to all the kissy-faced couples in the streets. It's all so glamorous. Can't you taste it?
Don't you hate the humiliation every time you come out of your isolated corner of the universe to keep the world from falling apart and it still does?Psht... and we thought Robbie Madison had skills.
Right under our sleep-filled eyes we let the world crumble because we all chose to be Greta Garbo. We wanted to be left alone to our own little corner, our own little conveniences. I guess that is the casualty of such a war. | 2019-04-26T11:43:17 | http://occasionallytuesdaymorning.blogspot.com/2009/01/let-us-make-toast-to-misfortunes-of.html | [
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I’m very interested everything about cartoon,fantasy world.
manga dragon ball story by toriyama akira.
It opened my the world of fantastic dream.
I bump into each other’s measure, this time a collection of Sketch in my spare time I like it. Or head for the back to see it. In fact I know that I am playing a few months to draw one picture ^ ^.
This is a good measure, I propose in the form of steam, I do not.
It is also said to be bad. (I am not good at anything.
I have comments. I developed my own).
I do get better. Hanuman’s character.
Hanuman is one of the main characters in the Ramayana.
The great white is white colored body.
Page 4 of 8 show effects on the cell body also has the other.
(From wikipedia as I read it).
Already it. See you next time I Ra. | 2019-04-21T22:13:06 | https://daertube.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/how-to-digital-painting-hanuman-by-aekkarat-sumutchaya/ | [
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But jBL speaker not received . Other kind of local chip speaker wrong one received.
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Showing results for tags 'Blueprints'.
I was talking to a friend the other day about being able to create blueprints of your creations and then selling them to players. He brought up a really good point. In Second Life they tried something similar, but ran into problems because players would exploit this system. They would buy blueprints, change a single texture or alter it in a tiny way, and then resell the design as their own. I am curious if there are any ideas or strategies that will be implemented to try and avoid this (if it's possible)? The only idea I can think of to avoid this is to have the designer bake in a signature of some sort into the design. A signature that would remain even if the overall product was slightly altered.
What kind of vehicles will you build? I want to see if anyone has began sketching out blueprints for the ships they plan on creating. I know we've only been given a little bit of info on ship building but I've already began sketching out some initial ship blueprints myself (I'll post those soon ) What kind of ships do you plan on making given the info we have? Post pics if you have any!
So here's one from the discord. Idea courtesy of TheGreatPigeon who assures me he's too lazy to post it. I like it enough I'll put it up and give my thoughts on it. The basic gist is to allow a construct made from a blueprint to be edited, and for those changes to, themselves, be saved as a blueprint. Unlike a normal blueprint, this new type (We'll call it a 'schematic' for now,) can't be used in a factory by itself or to make new constructs. In order to be used, it requires either a construct the original blueprint was for, or a copy of that blueprint alongside it. A usage case: X designs a fightercraft that's fairly popular. Z finds that it's undergunned and a little slow for his tastes. He adds some more weapons, changes the materials to lighten it up, and adds a sick spoiler just for fun. When he saves this, it becomes a schematic. If he has a copy of X's fighter, he can apply that schematic, in a factory or some other industrial unit, or possibly directly to the construct using guides and his nanoformer. If he has a BP, he can put both into a factory and produce a copy of the fighter with his schematic already applied. If he has neither the fighter or the blueprint, his schematic doesn't do anything at all. So this achieves a few things: 1: It allows iterative creativity while still protecting the IP of the original creator. 2: It can drive market sales for all parties. If Z's schematic is really popular, People are going to want to buy a lot more of X's fighter to get to use it! 3: It can allow players/orgs to customize their own variants of a construct without needing the original designer to do the work themselves, but still get paid for their original work. Now obviously, as a toggle, a BP could still have an "Allow/Disallow schematics" sort of option, to give the original IP holder more control. But I think a system like this could allow for some very interesting interactions to take place, without any enormous degree of additional complexity.
Lets say I make an awesome ship and I sell it on the market for a certain amount. What's to stop some guy from buying it, saving it as his own blueprint, then selling it and making tons more currency because he is able to get more attention drawn towards it? Also, whats to stop someone from just saving a ship or construct I'm working on as a blueprint? I was thinking along the lines of constructs being owner specific, even if created from blueprints; so the first person to place a block for a construct permanently owns it and all copies of it. The only problem with that is, what if I take a piece of crap ship and make it 100 times better? Then I can't make a blueprint from it. I was also thinking there could be an "ownership block", where whoever places it on a construct owns that construct permanently. But then that could simply be broken and replaced by someone else to call the ship theirs. | 2019-04-18T21:01:40 | https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/tags/Blueprints/ | [
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Wonder what the failing of a nonprofit board's duty of loyalty can look like?
One of the best examples I've seen is described in detail in the following Chicago Tribune story. And, as a refresher, the most common failing of the duty of loyalty is conflict of interest -- that is, when board members make decisions that take advantage of their position as a board member and result in personal material gain. If there's a case for failing their conflict of interest, this is it. For shame, for shame, for shame!!!
College of DuPage Trustee Dianne McGuire shows President Robert Breuder a newspaper clip before a special board meeting in January. McGuire has pushed for competitive bidding for college contracts.
Tribune: College of DuPage Foundation's board members have business ties to the school worth $200 million.
Who are top donors to College of DuPage? The official fundraisers who also billed it for $200M in business.
Officials at the College of DuPage have a long list of items to turn over to federal investigators by next week, including a trove of documents related to contracts with companies tied to board members for the school's fundraising foundation.
Here's what those records will show: Nearly half of the College of DuPage Foundation's 22 most recent board members are executives at companies doing business with the publicly funded school, and many of those companies have been awarded jobs without going through a competitive selection process, according to a Tribune investigation.
Those businesses have billed the college for nearly $200 million since July 2010 — while also ranking among the foundation's most generous donors. The Tribune's investigation, examining many of the same documents now being sought by federal authorities, raises questions about the confluence of business dealings and fundraising at the state's largest community college.
The foundation contracts are the latest legal and public relations battle for the Glen Ellyn school, which was served with two grand jury subpoenas this week as part of a federal criminal investigation. Since January, the school has been under fire for giving its president one of the largest buyout packages in state history, lavish spending by top administrators and its lax financial oversight.
A review of board minutes, emails and an audio recording shows that some school trustees raised foundation-related concerns more than a year ago. But President Robert Breuder repeatedly resisted calls for a more open contracting policy.
"I thought here in Illinois especially, even the appearance of pay-to-play or conflict of interest is dangerous," college Trustee Dianne McGuire said in an audio recording of a December 2013 board meeting.
McGuire, the board's liaison to the foundation, pushed for a more competitive selection process and suggested at that meeting that, based on an earlier conversation with Breuder, he agreed.
He didn't, the recording shows.
"I never weighed in," said Breuder, now also a target of the federal investigation. "I didn't go either way. I just sat there."
"I have to assume that at some point you saw there was some validity to what I was saying," McGuire replied.
"No," Breuder answered firmly. "It was an easy way to satisfy an interest that you had."
It's now an interest shared by federal prosecutors. The college has been ordered to provide documents showing all payments, reimbursements, contracts or loans between the college and foundation board members and their businesses, according to grand jury subpoenas obtained by the Tribune. The subpoenas also ask for documentation of any bids the companies submitted, their professional qualifications, and any efforts made to ensure the work was competitively awarded.
Including two members who resigned from the board this month, 10 of the foundation's 22 board members do business with the school, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Of those 10, nine have received non-competitive deals for a variety of business, including construction management, legal representation and political lobbying, the records show.
Nothing more than pay to play the Chicago way.
The businesses, meanwhile, all have donated generously over the years to the college's foundation. In fiscal year 2014, each company — or the foundation board member employed by the company — gave at least $5,000, putting them in the President's Circle, the highest level of annual giving, according to the foundation's annual report. Three companies are also part of the Presidential Society, an honor bestowed upon those who have given $100,000 or more over a lifetime.
College and foundation officials met with the Tribune on Monday, before the revelation of the federal investigation. In a lengthy interview, they defended the relationships because in all but one case, they said, the contracts were awarded before the company employees joined the board. The foundation-connected vendors all joined the board between 2010 and 2014.
Records show, however, companies tied to at least seven board members received contract renewals, extensions or increases, or new business, after their executives joined the board.
Many of the jobs did not have to be competitively bid because they involve professional services, one of the few exemptions under the state's procurement laws, or because the college already had a "satisfactory relationship" with the company, according to the officials.
"These people were contracted long before and became good friends of the college because they became involved in the mission. They are community and business leaders," said Catherine Brod, the foundation's executive director.
Still, critics have said there is at least an appearance of impropriety.
"All of the transactions are completely legal if conducted at arm's length, but the pattern is troubling," said Adam Andrzejewski, founder of the watchdog group For the Good of Illinois and an outspoken critic of the college's spending.
The nonprofit foundation serves as the college's fundraising arm, and while it is legally separate from the college, the school pays foundation employees' salaries and provides them office space. Foundation board members don't get paid.
According to the foundation's annual report, it gave away over $452,000 in scholarship money to more than 600 students last school year. It also awarded more than $130,000 to support faculty and staff projects.
"The people who are on our board are really very involved with their time. They are passionate about the college," said foundation board President Susan Lang Berry.
Board members are asked to donate at least $1,000 a year and make the foundation one of their top three charities, Berry said.
Community colleges nationwide have rules regarding vendor agreements between the schools and foundation board members, from policies prohibiting them to using conflict-of-interest statements to make the business dealings transparent. The College of DuPage Foundation's conflict of interest policy does not address board members' business dealings with the college, but cautions "most conflicts fall into a gray area where ethics and public perception are more relevant than statutes or precedents."
"Loss of public confidence and a damaged reputation are the most likely results of poorly managed conflict of interest," the policy adds.
Taken together, foundation-connected companies have billed the school for nearly $200 million in the past five years, records show. The companies include two construction firms, Chicago-based Power Construction Co. and Minnesota-based Mortenson Construction Co.; two local law firms, Robbins Schwartz and Fuchs & Roselli; lobbyist Scott Marquardt; architectural firm Wight & Co.; project management firm CCS International; and signage company Herricane Graphics.
U.S. Bank, which has a representative on the board, pays $1,500 a month to operate the only bank branch on campus, a noncompetitive deal approved by trustees in October 2012. The bank's Chicago market president, Marsha Cruzan, has served on the school's foundation since July 2010.
St. Charles-based Bison Gear & Engineering also has done a small amount of business with the college, selling $7,550 worth of equipment in the past year. A foundation official said Bison Chairman Ronald Bullock — a foundation member who donated $275,000 for student scholarships last year — would not have been aware of such a minor transaction at his company.
The companies and their foundation-connected representatives either did not return calls seeking comment or deferred most questions to the college.
Amid the Tribune's reporting, college attorneys Kenneth Florey, of Robbins Schwartz, and Steven Ruffalo, of Fuchs & Roselli, stepped down from the foundation board, citing personal and business reasons. Payments to their firms are included in the Tribune's analysis because they were sitting board members until earlier this month.
The college declined to provide contracts signed before July 2010 and didn't release any records until a Tribune attorney intervened. Officials also would not provide records showing proposals from those companies, though the officials contend all went through a competitive process before their first deal with the school. The vast majority of the payments were for construction work as the college has built or significantly renovated a number of buildings since Breuder became president in 2009.
A review of more than 900 pages of invoices, contracts and board minutes shows that the college has paid more than $192 million in the past five years to Mortenson Construction and Power Construction. The two companies have spearheaded projects funded by a successful referendum in fall 2010, when voters approved a $168 million measure to expand the campus' homeland security education center and renovate other buildings.
College officials say the $192 million figure is misleading because it includes payments that passed through the construction companies to other contractors. They also said the amount includes both construction management fees — which were not competitively awarded — as well as construction work for which the companies submitted bids.
School officials declined a Tribune request to provide an itemized accounting of the payments made to Mortenson and Power. Both companies deferred questions to the college, which argued that no quid pro quo existed because neither firm had a seat on the foundation board until last year.
Though the foundation does not provide detailed information about contributions, records show the foundation-connected construction companies are among the largest lifetime donors to the group. Both Mortenson and Power have donated at least $50,000 each over the years, according to the organization's annual report. Mortenson — which served as construction manager for the McAninch Arts Center renovations — also donated $50,000 last year to be the "platinum sponsor" of the building's re-opening celebration.
The firms also have contributed financially in other ways.
In 2010, the two contributed to a political action committee started by college administrators to help promote the building referendum. Mortenson gave $5,000, and Power employees contributed $10,000 of the $65,000 raised in total, according to state campaign records.
Eight months after the referendum's passage, school trustees awarded both companies construction management contracts.
"You have this culture of pinstripe patronage," said Chicago attorney Mark Stern, who raised questions about the political action committee during the referendum campaign. "People are contributing money to the people making the decisions."
There have been signs that trustees and law enforcement officials have begun to recognize potential problems with the procurement system. Before the federal investigation, DuPage County prosecutors began looking into no-bid contracts awarded to Herricane owner Carla Burkhart, who joined the foundation board in June 2012.
The Tribune recently reported that Burkhart has billed more than $630,000 to design and install signs for the school over the past four years without submitting a single competitive bid, including a new project awarded in 2014. Much of the work was made possible through a contract that references her experience as an architect, though she is not one.
McGuire — who is spearheading a board review of foundation-connected contracts — said in the interview Monday that she now feels comfortable with the existing deals after the college recently compiled statistics showing the fees were within industry standards. She also applauded a recent decision to bid an architectural contract for a new Naperville facility.
A new vendor won that job.
She said she intends to recommend that the college seek proposals from several companies before agreeing to professional service contracts in the future.
"I don't want to make it a mandatory process," she said. "I think we want to leave some flexibility in place, but definitely encourage that."
Although McGuire had been rebuffed by Breuder in December 2013, emails last fall show she continued to push for an open and competitive contracting process.
"If a foundation board member is also a vendor of the college, then the board of trustees must be assured that any contracts they receive must be shown to be competitive with other similar service providers," she wrote in an October 2014 email to Breuder. "(O)therwise, it has the appearance of pay to play ... we must be able to defend that contract if questioned."
Breuder replied that the college had no legal obligation to bid contracts awarded to foundation members.
When McGuire asked what harm could be done by a competitive process, Breuder ended the discussion.
"I am comfortable where we are," he wrote. "That said, we can always look at another step at times. We will rely on our good judgment."
Two months later — at McGuire's urging — the college board approved a new competitive contract for lobbying services. Foundation member Scott Marquardt had handled the college's lobbying efforts since 2010, and had joined the foundation board in July 2012.
The college had been paying him $5,000 per month under several non-competitive contracts.
But, when it came time to renew the deal last year, the school solicited proposals from 33 lobbying firms.
In the end, Marquardt submitted the only proposal, but he lowered his price to $4,500 a month — saving the college $6,000 a year.
Tribune reporter Christy Gutowski contributed. | 2019-04-23T12:00:39 | https://nonprofitboardcrisis.typepad.com/mbblog/2015/04/nonprofit-board-duty-of-loyalty.html | [
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There is a great diversity of inequalities in our world.
But let's focus on inequalities among states at this international global level.
among states which are less or more powerful.
social inequalities, natural inequalities and so on.
These inequalities can be considered trough the concept of human security.
cultural security, economic security, individual security.
And these securities are more or less achieved.
Let's give the priority to the food security, why?
causing also political, social and economic instability.
which are also working for the other insecurities.
About food security, let's first forget some commonplaces.
is able to feed these 7 billion of people which are composing humanity.
But it does it badly and this is the problem, it can, but it does it badly.
multiplied by 2.4 in 40 years.
That is probably something really efficient.
900 million starving people in the world.
however, the global population is increasing.
That is apparently the evidence that the situation has improved.
In proportion, starvation is fortunately decreasing.
by now currently 6,000,000 people die of starvation per year.
with very severe nutritive deficiencies.
And last point, starvation changes, formerly it was rural.
Now it's more and more urban.
that starvation in rural societies didn't have.
And starvation is more and more centered on one continent.
That's to say, on Africa.
three remarks, very important remarks, to make.
First of all, starvation, hunger, are economic problems.
That's to say the main factor of starvation is to be found in poverty.
70%, 90% of the family budget for food.
If the price of food is increasing they have just to reduce their own consumption.
but it's also as my second point, a poverty problem.
to the misconception of global public policies.
But it's also a systematic problem.
in the ways of consuming in northern, developed countries.
Let's now focus on these factors of hunger in our present world.
why our global world is not working well.
The first one is, as I mentioned, overconsumption in northern countries.
That's to say inequality ladies and gentlemen.
In his life, a Frenchman like me, will eat seven [INAUDIBLE].
9 sheep, 60 rabbits, 1,300 chickens.
in our developed countries which is taken away from the southern consumption.
area of farmland multiplied by 1.6.
China needs Its own farmland multiplied by 2.5.
multiplied by 7.1 and US by 1.9.
That explains this process of land grabbing.
vital parts of their own agricultural resources.
agriculture in thousand and developing countries.
developing countries than for developed countries.
It creates new areas of farmland in Canada or in Russia.
as you know, one of the main factors of starvation in this part of the world.
a regression of farmlands in developing countries.
which is pushing away farmlands out of the main places of urbanization.
which take every year about 100 million tons of cereals.
market is marginalizing small producers.
the main factor of development and of reducing starvation.
Seventh factor, maybe the more critical, is speculation.
20% within two weeks in 2007.
we can imagine the consequences of this.
But the problem with that is the price is decreasing, the risk is the same.
That's to say, in this case, small producers are ruined.
aggravation of, and worsening, of this situation.
Solutions are very difficult to find.
But however, however, some countries could do the job.
policy, which was defined by the president Lula Da Silva.
food purchase to people in condition to send their children to school.
And this program could cut the number of starving people by 20 million.
there is a possible willingness to do that. | 2019-04-24T12:03:33 | https://tr.coursera.org/lecture/espace-mondial-cn/shi-pin-fei-an-quan-AfMza?authMode=signup | [
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What about Ceasefire of the Empires? It's a charity drive for Save The Children and War Child. You see, the charities believes that the future is the children. | 2019-04-20T19:06:37 | https://www.planetside-universe.com/showthread.php?s=ad79782a70f3150b0890d195adf85f21&p=957548 | [
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1 in 3 people in the UK take a supplement of one kind or another, and those with ill health are high on the list. The most popular supplements are multi-vitamins containing anti-oxidants closely followed by Vitamin C. Claims range from helping stave off Alzheimer’s, Arthritis and Cancers to actually prolonging life which, if true, make them more potent than most drugs yet supplements are not regulated in the same way as drugs – in fact, they’re not regulated at all.
I watched a fascinating BBC Horizon documentary last Thursday night called ‘Vitamin Pills: Miracle or Myth’ which looked at 60 years of research into Vitamin supplements and it made for interesting, and at times worrying, viewing. It started off by measuring the vitamins and minerals in the blood of 3 people of differing ages, sexes and diets. One was a female student who had an addiction to Curly Fries and admitted she ate like crap. The other was a 30-something female yoga teacher who ate a ‘healthy’ diet with loads of fresh fruit and veg and very little processed food, and the third was the reporter, a middle aged Chinese man who loved takeaways washed down with a beer. When measured, all three had the recommended levels of vitamins and minerals in their bodies…………….well, all except the woman with the ‘healthy’ diet who was ironically lacking in iron. For the most part we are all getting enough nutrients from our food, whatever kind of diet we follow.
There are, however, groups of people who may need supplementation. If you are housebound or your working life means you spend hardly any time outdoors you will probably need a Vitamin D supplement. If you are a female teenager or female adult with heavy periods you may need an iron supplement. If you are pregnant you should take a folic acid supplement, and if you have any kind of dietary restrictions, eg. Coeliac Disease, you may need extra help. But, on the whole, most of us are getting enough, or more than enough, vitamins and minerals from our food. I haven’t eaten meat for 25 years yet only became deficient in iron when a) I had to change my diet due to my Histamine Intolerance and b) this coincided with heavier periods due to the peri-menopause. All my other levels, including B12, have always been either good or excellent.
The whole ‘free radical/oxidative stress’ argument for taking anti-oxidants was started by one researcher in the 1950s. He discovered that exercise initiated a period of oxidative stress within the body which, he assumed, was bad for us so looked at ways of counter-acting it using anti-oxidant supplements. This snowballed over the next few decades as companies joined the band wagon and before we knew it anti-oxidants were miracle supplements which counter-acted free radical damage, staved off aging, made us look and feel younger, warded off diseases and actually prolonged our lives. The only problem being it’s bunkum. More recent research has shown that the oxidative stress produced by our bodies after exercise is actually needed and if we interfere with that we are actually harming ourselves! One researcher looked back at trials from the last 50 years from all over the world and concluded that taking anti-oxidant supplements either had zero effect on disease and wellbeing or, more worryingly, actually increased mortality (one study was stopped after the mortality rate from lung cancer increased by 28% for those taking antioxidant supplements).
We’re also encouraged via persuasive marketing to buy various herbs and foods which have been condensed down into supplement form. The programme looked at Green Tea which you can buy condensed into a pill and which, after only 3 months, gave one man liver disease so severe he needed an immediate liver transplant and is now in kidney failure – before this he was totally healthy. Obviously this isn’t going to happen to everyone but the fact it happens at all is huge cause for concern when there is virtually no regulation on supplements and no legal obligation to make manufacturers prove the claims they make about their health effects or provide warnings of potential side effects. One of my good friends who has had severe M.E. for decades decided to try Spatone iron water for her proven low iron levels – it led to severe GERD which has continued ever since and has left her in tortuous daily pain. I, on the other hand, take 2 sachets a day and it’s been brilliantly helpful to me. None of us know how we’re going to react to supplements and we aren’t warned they may have serious side effects, may interfere with medication or be contra-indicated for a disease from which we may be suffering. Also, according to the research, if we are dieting or on restricted calories for whatever reason we may absorb more of the active ingredients of herbs and supplements and so be unwittingly taking higher than recommended doses.
I’m not anti-supplements and have benefitted hugely from taking iron and, in winter, Vitamin D but I am anti lack of evidence, regulation and monitoring. Companies selling supplements aren’t the slightest bit interested in hearing about issues with their products, but there is a way of reporting them via the Yellow Card Scheme which is a Government run website for feedback on adverse reactions to a range of products, including drugs, herbs and homeopathic remedies. We don’t do this enough and if the Government don’t know there’s a problem they won’t know to look into it.
The fact that simple supplements can in some cases, decrease rather than increase life span is shocking to me and just goes to prove that our bodies are mind-boglingly sophisticated entities that have kept us alive as a species for millennia without any intervention. For most people popping a herb or supplement won’t do anything much other than produce very expensive wee, but for some they can cause untold misery or even prove fatal. I personally don’t take anything unless my blood work shows I need to and then make sure I have regular tests to monitor any effect, which I think is doubly important when you have mast cell disease and your body may react in ways not usually seen.
This entry was posted in Medical & treatments and tagged adverse effects, antioxidant, dangers, supplements on October 31, 2018 by Jak. | 2019-04-20T07:18:12 | https://mastcellblog.wordpress.com/tag/antioxidant/ | [
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Ray Bates has provided a critique of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C promoted as a ‘paper’ (it is no such thing in that it is not a rigorously peer-reviewed piece) by the GWPF – a highly questionable think tank.
This piece has garnered some interest in the Irish press and I am quoted as critical of it and the associated views in a piece in the Irish Times. To be crystal clear: a free press is an essential component of a healthy, vibrant democracy and it would be strange for the media to completely censure views. Furthermore, journalists only have a finite amount of real estate to work with. Also, journalism is a real-time business and a tough gig. Hence here I am taking the opportunity to more clearly lay out from a scientific viewpoint why the piece being reported upon is fundamentally flawed and the IPCC SR1.5 report stands on its merits.
The societal response and policy aspects I shall leave for another day but suffice to say I am more optimistic and view national leadership on acting on climate change, if done right, as a real national opportunity for all Irish citizens.
And that the statement did not necessarily assert that more than half of the warming is due to human influences. He goes on to contend that SR1.5 departs from AR5 in contending that all the warming is due to human influence.
Figure SPM6 from IPCC AR5 WG1 report. Changes for simulations with human influences (pink) and without (blue) for a range of global and continental and ocean / cryosphere indicators. Human influences explain effectively all the change seen since the early 20th Century.
Figure 10.5 showing attributable contributions to the observed change (black bar) from Grrenhouse gases, all anthropogenic forcings, non-greenhouse gas anthropogenic forcings, natural forcings and internal variability. The best estimate is that anthropogenic contribution to warming slightly exceeds that observed (balanced by variability / natural forcings). It is in no way only half the warming.
So, does SR1.5 start from a distinct premise from the AR5 conclusions around attributable warming contribution from us humans? That’ll be a resounding no.
Ray Bates goes on in his piece to imply nefarious intent behind the IPCC considering only the post-1960 series of GMST in their SPM figure. The choice is reasonable because the attribution statement in AR5 (and the prior figure) pertained to post-1950 changes. Furthermore, in the underlying chapter 1 Figure 1.2 the full series from 1850 is shown. The SR1.5 is hardly ignoring the early period as implied is it?
Ray Bates then goes on to show a satellite dataset that shows less warming than the surface. It is true that the UAH dataset does, indeed, show less warming than the surface. What’s the issue? Well, satellite data are no gold standard. You put a delicate instrument on top of a controlled explosion to send it into space then expose it to vagaries in space weather. Unlike the surface there are not hundreds of instruments there is one. It can drift in the sampling and it can degrade in performance over time. What happens if another group also go to the trouble of creating a product from the same instruments in space? Well, they find greater warming than at the surface. I’m not going to argue one of these is right and the other wrong. I’m just pointing out that satellites aint no gold standard. Indeed, AR5 concluded that the surface was robust whereas the tropospheric changes while certain of the sign (warming) were uncertain in magnitude. As I lead that portion of the AR5 assessment I am uniquely qualified to make this statement.
Ray Bates goes on to throw in a couple of red herrings on the Oceans for good measure. He states that an emerging signal of warming of land faster than oceans in the observed record is problematic. Well, no, its actually what we expect as an emerging signal of climate change and it will only get worse. As SR1.5 points out much of the global land domain already experiences seasonally or annually changes exceeding 1.5C.
Don’t believe me? Here is Figure 12.11 of the SPM of AR5. Note how the land warms more than the oceans in all cases. Note also how our choices matter in determining future generations climate.
Figure 12.11 from AR5. Land robustly warms more than oceans. I sure don’t want my descendants inheriting that bottom right world. Can we please make efforts to make the top right reality?
These preliminary results are considered of interest for the ongoing community efforts focusing on coupled data assimilations.
Why would IPCC be expected to rely upon an experimental data assimilation system analysis? Well, exactly.
The section on climate model tuning is very confused indeed. I was involved, when at the Met Office, in the model tuning and evaluation exercises. I saw lots of effort concerned around getting critical processes such as El Nino, mid-latitude storm tracks and monsoon variations adequately as well as the mean state. I never saw an effort to tune the model to reproduce the observed trends or to determine some state in 2100 in the projections. I also saw significant efforts to run perturbed ensembles and these have been done even more so in the citizen science www.climateprediction.net experiments. To claim that the model tuning is an issue that is unexplored or a major issue is incorrect.
The section on ECS is, to put it politely, selective. Fortunately I don’t have to waste many words here as there has been a recent major review piece written by Reto Knutti and colleagues - the figures are not behind the paywall and any number of these give a much more holistic assessment as to the state of our knowledge on the topic. The bottom line is that contrary to the assertion of Ray Bates if anything the lower bound on ECS has increased since AR5. The good news here is there is a whole chapter devoted to it and related matters in AR6.
Ray has had a long and distinguished career. But that career has been in atmospheric dynamics and not climate. Yes, both are to do with the atmosphere, but when your toilet is backing up you call the plumber and not the electrician. In the same way when looking for guidance on climate change it is advisable to listen to the climate scientists of which there are many thousands the vast majority of whom (and I mean vast) concur with the broad findings of the IPCC and various national assessments and national academies that climate change is real, its due to us, and that our choices now are of critical import. Equally, if you want to discuss the intricacies of atmospheric dynamics please don’t come knocking at my door!
Drought has begun to fade from the national conversation following a week of rain, but observations show that Dublin remains in the grip of the one of the most intense flash droughts, probably the most, since at least the middle of the nineteenth Century.
There are numerous definitions of drought. None are perfect. In Ireland we have tended to use an index called the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) (McKee et al. 1993). This makes sense in that most of the time it is a lack of rainfall that leads to drought in our relatively moderate climate. But there are other indexes such as the Standardised Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) (Vicente-Serrano et al.2010) which, in addition, account for removal of water via evaporation and plant transpiration. This index is arguably better for characterising flash droughts that tend to occur in the warm season. It uses a combination of monthly rainfall and temperature records.
The Noone et al. (2015) assessment of variability and change in precipitation over the period 1850–2010 indicates positive trends in winter and negative trends in summer precipitation. Noone et al. (2017) produced a 250 year drought catalogue for the Island of Ireland by applying SPI-12 ( a 12 month drought index) to identify long hydrological drought rich periods. The results show that Ireland is drought prone but recent decades are unrepresentative of the longer-term drought climatology. Ireland has experienced seven long drought rich periods over the period 1850-2015 impacting the whole of the island of Ireland; (1854–1860, 1884–1896,1904–1912, 1921–1923, 1932–1935, 1952–1954 and 1969–1977). But it is also possible to have ‘flash’ droughts, such as that in 2018.
Phoenix Park is one of the longest continuous meteorological stations in Ireland. Records started in the early 1800s and continue through present. This long record is thanks to the significant efforts of Met Eireann, Ordnance Survey Ireland and others. Although instrumentation has changed over time, the site has always stood in the grounds of Ordnance Survey Ireland and the regional environment has remained largely unchanged. The precipitation series was homogenised by ICARUS as part of Noone et al. (2015). The temperature record has not been homogenised to date.* Met Eireann make monthly and daily summaries available. To perform the present assessment we have appended the July daily values aggregated to monthly averages** to the long monthly series and calculated SPEI-3 (a 3 month drought index) for the entire series.
The provisional value of SPEI-3 for May to July is -2.70 which is the most extreme value on record, beating October 1995 by a whisker***. The next most extreme was August 1995. Before that the index values are sufficiently different to conclude that either 2018 or 1995 represent the worst flash drought since modern meteorological records began in Ireland, with 2018 marginally more likely.
SPEI-3 values calculated at Phoenix Park January 1850 to July 2018. Red lines show 3 month accumulative deficits and blue lines show 3 month accumulative surplus.
One important thing to note is that the two most extreme prior months occurred in the same year. This shows that drought can appear to diminish only to quickly return. We may well have had a week of rain (although even that in Phoenix Park amounted to only 47% of the long term monthly average rainfall for July), but that does not even begin to undo months of deficit.
Table of the ten most extreme values of SPEI-3 in the Phoenix Park record. Negative values denote deficits. The more negative the index the more severe the drought conditions.
Perhaps more worrying still is the seasonal forecasts for the coming two months which show a real possibility of the meteorological set-up that led to the current drought returning and persisting. Don’t be fooled by a week of recent rains. We are potentially far from done yet.
Current seasonal forecast output from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration CFSv2 system. Daily deficits of >-0.2mm/day are predicted. Note large uncertainties exist in seasonal prediction systems which should only be used as indicative guidance.
** Another reason to say probably rather than definitively in that monthly summaries have quality control applied by Met Eireann which may lead to a mismatch between the aggregated to monthly daily reports and eventual monthly summary of record.
*** Yet another reason to say probably rather than definitively.
Noone S, Murphy C, Coll J, Matthews T, Mullan D, Wilby RL, Walsh S. (2015). Homogenization and analysis of an expanded long-term monthly rainfall network for the Island of Ireland (1850–2010). Int. J. Climatol. 36: 2837–2853, doi: 10.1002/joc.4522. | 2019-04-24T04:50:04 | http://icarus-maynooth.blogspot.com/ | [
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During his third time hosting "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, legendary actor Robert De Niro never got sillier than in the sketch below. "Blizzard Man" featured musical guest Diddy as well as De Niro (in drag) in a bit surrounding one of Andy Samberg's go-to characters: the ridiculous rapper.
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The air ambulance was mobilised following reports that a man had fallen on a tree branch and impaled his neck in Durrington, a spokesman said.
The ambulance service spokesman confirmed two response cars and an ambulance were sent to the sports ground in Pond Lane at around 11.40pm last night (Tuesday, August 28).
The air ambulance was also mobilised but stood down when it was reported on scene that his neck had not been impaled, the spokesman said.
The 32-year-old patient was taken to Worthing Hospital for treatment to a neck injury, confirmed the spokesman.
The fire service assisted with the extrication of the patient, added the spokesman.
The fire service confirmed that one fire engine and a heavy rescue tender from Worthing were sent to the scene after the ambulance service asked for assistance.
Crews left the scene at 12.20am. | 2019-04-22T15:10:43 | https://www.worthingherald.co.uk/news/air-ambulance-called-to-reports-that-man-had-impaled-neck-on-branch-in-durrington-1-8617291 | [
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「Hotel WBF Artstay Namba」takes the combination of culture and art as the concept, 80 rooms from 3F-10F are stylish and decorated with drawings by the children of 'Ban Rom Sai' in Thailand, a home for children who have lost their parents due to AIDS or have contracted HIV from their parents. The other 9 rooms on 2F are decorated with art works of active artists from different counturies. Please stay in your unique room and enjoy the fun of the art hotel. The hotel is the mixture of the belief of power of creativity, art, as well as imagination. The collaboration of children's drawings and aritists' works creats the special space. Walking into the hotel, you may feel a totally different atmosphere contracts with the noisy city. Please stay in the adorable rooms and sleep with spectacular artworks.
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A new, drug-resistant strain of E. coli is causing serious disease, according to a new study in the Aug. 1, 2010 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
"If we could discover the sources of this strain, the transmission pathways that allow it to spread so effectively, and the factors that have led to its rapid emergence, we could find ways to intervene and possibly slow or halt this strains emergence," says study author James Johnson, MD, of the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis.
In the past, highly virulent E. coli strains usually have been susceptible to antibiotics, while highly resistant strains have been fairly weak in terms of their ability to cause disease. The susceptible strains were easily treated even though they caused serious infections, while the resistant ones tended mostly to affect only weakened or vulnerable individuals. Now, the studys findings suggest, the ST131 strain has appeared with a high level of virulence and antimicrobial resistance.
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The University of Maryland President Wallace Loh.
University of Maryland President Wallace Loh stood before reporters Aug. 14 and apologized to the family of Jordan McNair, a football player who died days after a team workout. That day, Loh also announced a commission charged with examining the culture inside the school's embattled football program, an undertaking that could prompt sweeping changes at the state's flagship university.
In June, the school had contracted with an outside consulting firm to investigate the events surrounding McNair's death. But the commission Loh announced nearly two months later would be charged with a broader inquiry into the culture of the school's football program - a "thorough investigation by an independent group," Loh said - following media reports that suggested some coaches were abusive toward players, relying on fear, intimidation and bullying.
Few details about the group's work to date are publicly available, but the commission's directives and composition reveal some of the inherent obstacles that arise when independent bodies investigate problems in university athletic departments.
In an initial email to the newly-appointed commission members, a copy of which was viewed by The Washington Post, Loh advised that some of the allegations they would be investigating "probably occur in every football program" and that the line between aggressive and abusive training techniques is "imprecise."
Also, several of the commission members have previous ties with the university and the stakeholders in the affair. One served as a personal advisor to Loh. Another is the brother of an influential booster.
Almost immediately after the commission's unveiling, the University System of Maryland's board of regents took control from the College Park campus, adding five additional members to the three named by Loh and suggesting that key decisions about the football program's future would be made by the regents, not necessarily the school president. The vice chair of the board of regents is a prominent donor to the athletics department and has voiced public support for head football coach DJ Durkin.
This investigation could go a long way to determining the fate of Durkin, who was placed on administrative leave along with three other member of the athletic staff in the immediate aftermath of the media reports. One of those, football strength and conditioning coach Rick Court, has negotiated a settlement and resigned.
According to multiple people familiar with the process, Durkin was interviewed by investigators on the morning of Aug. 22, and they were particularly keen on questioning Durkin about his alleged use of food to demean players, possible verbal abuse and his handling of injuries.
The commission's review is expected to also look at the actions of other prominent coaches and staff members, including Damon Evans, who was promoted to athletics director less than two weeks after McNair's death. Loh, too, could find himself scrutinized by one or both of the external probes. He nixed a plan recommended by the school's athletic director to fundamentally change the way athletes receive medical treatment and athletic training less than a year before McNair died.
There is no formal deadline for the commission to complete its review of the football program.
"We're trying to get that all done this month, one way or another, so that all the facts we can gather are in front of the board and the campus and then decisions can be made about the future," Robert Caret, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, said in an interview last week, "both to protect student-athletes themselves but also to create the kind of environment we want."
A day after he addressed reporters, Loh sent an email to his three new commission members, as well as a handful of school officials, laying out the assignment. He told them "to interview a sufficiently large sample of current and former players, their parents, athletics staff , and any other relevant stakeholders, in order to make an assessment on whether the relatively few (but deeply troubling) cases of alleged 'abuse,' reported anonymously in the media, indicate the existence of a widespread 'toxic culture' . . . or, do these reported cases represent only a small portion of the population of football players, present and past."
Loh told the members that "arguably, a hyper-masculine and insular culture is the norm, rather than the exception, in college football." Furthermore, he advised them that "some of the alleged verbally abusive or demeaning behaviors probably occur in every football program. It is part of the 'football culture.' There is, of course, an imprecise line between training practices that aggressively push players to the limit and are acceptable, and practices that most reasonable persons would deem to be physical and/or emotional abusive conduct.'"
Asked about Loh's email, Maryland spokesperson Katie Lawson said: "The president acknowledges that athletic programs are by their nature demanding and intense, and he asked commission members to investigate if Maryland's program crosses a line into destructive or abusive, which is absolutely unacceptable. President Loh has been clear that if such behavior did exist here, it will not be tolerated."
After assuming ownership of the investigation two days later, the board of regents added five more members to the commission, including former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich and Tom McMillen, the former Terps' basketball star who served three terms in Congress.
In expanding the panel, the regents faced the delicate task of appointing people who are sufficiently knowledgeable about football and the school but not too partisan.
"Ideally, you want somebody who has more than a passing familiarity with that space and the cultures that exist in that space," said a veteran college sports administrator, who requested anonymity so he could speak candidly about the process. "At the same time, that can cause people to be apologists for all that behavior. That's one of the inherent challenges. I know some of the people on the Maryland committee. They're good people, but many are affiliated with the University of Maryland.
Richard Legon, president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, said the composition of the Maryland commission on its face appears sound.
"I think if you have a former a member of Congress, a former governor, other prestigious leaders who are connected or not to the institution, what you can get to is an outcome with a high degree of credibility," he said. "At the end of the day, credibility allows the board to put greater stock into the recommendations and take whatever actions they're going to take."
The web of relationships surrounding the Maryland probe is thorny and highlights several areas of possible concern. The eight commission members, who will be compensated for their work, either declined to comment or did not respond to requests to comment.
Loh made Alex Williams, a well-respected retired U.S. District judge, one of his three initial appointees to the commission. Williams is the founder, chief executive and namesake of a center focused on justice and ethics housed within the university's school of behavioral and social sciences.
Prior to joining the commission, Williams had served as a pro bono personal advisor to Loh following the death of Richard Collins III, a 23-year-old student at nearby Bowie State University, who was killed on Maryland's College Park campus in May 2017.
Don Scheeler, past president of the Terrapin Club, left his name off a letter in support of Durkin that was sent last month to the regents from the Champions Club, a group of high-level sports boosters. His brother, Charles Scheeler, was another of the three commission members appointed by Loh.
Charles Scheeler is a Baltimore-based attorney at the law firm DLA Piper, who previously served as the "independent monitor" charged with tracking Penn State's implementation of recommendations made in the report that followed the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
He also was a top deputy for Sen. George Mitchell a decade ago in the exhaustive investigation into performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Scheeler and his associates at DLA Piper have done much of the commission's investigative legwork behind the scenes.
Asked about the inclusion of Williams and Scheeler, a spokesman said in a statement to The Post: "Both have the objectivity and talent to contribute greatly to an impartial investigation of the culture of the University of Maryland, College Park football program.
"But they are only two of the eight member independent commission, which is comprised of individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, from both in Maryland and outside the state," the statement continued. "The commission's membership is sufficiently large, fair-minded and diverse in perspective to effectively follow the facts wherever they may lead."
In addition to Ehrlich and McMillen, the other commission members are retired U.S. District Court Judge Ben Legg; Doug Williams, the former Redskins quarterback who serves as the senior vice president of player personnel for the team; Bonnie Bernstein, an alumnus of the school and veteran sports broadcaster; and Frederick Azar, the chief of staff at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics in Memphis.
It's not known how hands-on all eight of the commission members have been. Two of the eight commission members live outside the area, and others have demanding, full-time jobs.
"I think the vast majority of them will have had some hands-on experience," Caret said in an interview last week. "I don't know if they've met face to face or not. I know they've all talked."
A spokesman for the regents said that once the commission has completed its examination, it will share its findings with the board of regents, which will then "make whatever decisions are necessary to better safeguard and support all students and student-athletes." The board of regents is made up of 17 unpaid members who oversee Maryland's system of 12 colleges. With the exception of one student representative, each member is appointed by the governor and can serve a maximum of two five-year terms.
Barry Gossett is a vice chair of the board of regents and also one of the most influential athletic boosters the school has ever known. He donated $10 million in 2007 to build the football program's "team house," which bears his name, and this spring pledged more than $21 million - one of the largest donations the school has ever received - to a center focused on athletes' academic studies.
"From a donor standpoint, I kind of stand behind DJ and his program and what he has been doing," Gossett told The Post in an interview before the university placed the coach on leave.
Gossett did not respond to requests to comment last week. He had been tending recently to his wife, Mary, who died Monday. The couple have been donors to the school since 1971, championing causes both in and outside of athletics.
"Barry Gossett is a highly regarded member of the Maryland community who has served, and continues to serve, the state in countless ways," a spokesman for the board of regents said in an email last week. "At the same time, he is only one of 17 members of the Board of Regents, which will receive the findings of the independent commission."
Like Don Scheeler, Gossett left his name off the Champions Club letter supporting Durkin.
The board doesn't typically play a role in personnel decisions at the system's schools, though it does have oversight over Loh, who has led the state's flagship university since 2010.
"The board obviously can have influence on the president," Caret said.
Stephen Ross, a Penn State sports law professor who directs a cross-campus center on sports issues, said the pre-existing relationships on these investigative bodies aren't usually as important as the underlying motivation behind the appointment.
He says there are scenarios where those pre-existing ties could undermine an investigation but others in which they could lend credibility, diversify the commission and appease stakeholders in the event of a critical report.
"To me, an ad hoc committee designed to deal with a major public relations problem is itself an exercise in strategic communication," he said.
There is no rulebook for such investigations and schools can pursue them on their own terms. Similar external examinations have been conducted at schools such as Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State, facing widespread criticism from some corners unhappy with different facets of the respective probes or findings.
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges issued a formal statement to schools in 2009 saying "it is time for all [governing] boards to re-examine how they exercise their oversight responsibilities." The organization urged governing bodies, such as Maryland's board of regents, to refrain "from fostering personal relationships with the athletics director or coaches," and urging them to "exercise appropriate oversight while avoiding micromanagement, viewing athletics with a dispassionate perspective."
"We don't want them running college sports,"Legon said, "but we want them to recognize the buck stops with them." | 2019-04-25T04:00:49 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Maryland-president-told-commission-some-13223962.php | [
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Several months ago we saw a large bump in forum spam coming from the India / Pakistan / Bangladesh region. I started banning IP ranges, but they hit from so many I got pretty frustrated and banned an entire /12 for Airtel in India. (For those that don't know, that's basically a million IPs.) Forum spam dropped significantly immediately. However, it also blocked a large number of legitimate users. So about a month ago I dropped the /12 IP ban. Then sure enough, a few weeks later the spam returned. Now it's back in force.
We have a couple strategies we're mulling over to reduce this, and I hope to roll some of it out over the next few weeks. I appreciate your patience while we deal with it. In the meantime, reporting spammy comments and topics helps us a ton to get rid of it quickly.
Maybe add some verification measures when logging in and make it essential to verify your email before you can make forum posts. Might not eradicate the problem but for people using spam bots it might put a stop to them.
We do verify email before being able to log in. For a bit we saw automated email verification clicks from spam bots, but we've found workarounds to block those. In a nutshell, the spam we're seeing now isn't from bots. It's manual spam from humans.
Aaah I see... Still this forum has a lot less spam than I've seen in other forums that I use, and the community including myself seems to report it as soon as it's posted. And if you decide to put together a PcPP hit squad count me in ;) haha.
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I recomended a simple deterrent on the last one i reported. it wont end the problem, but may slow down the bots for a while.
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(Trinidad Guardian) It has been 42 days since Gangadhar Hanooman, 49, has been missing and relatives in renewing their calls for help in finding him, have also called on Police Commissioner Gary Griffith for a “personal” intervention in the investigations surrounding the case.
Hanooman of Roystonia, Couva, was last seen on September 1 at about 6.30 pm near a mini mart close to his home in Roystonia in Couva.
His car—a silver Nissan B14—was found abandoned near a mangrove adjacent to two vegetable gardens in Felicity, Chaguanas two days after on September 3.
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Gangadhar’s car, which was subsequently impounded at the Chaguanas Police Station, was recently released to the family and is now parked up in Gangadhar’s backyard. With sadness in her eyes, occasionally “drifting” in her thoughts, Gangadhar’s wife for eight years stood next to her husband’s car in dismay during an interview with the T&T Guardian.
Another relative said she strongly believes that investigating officers at the Anti-Kidnapping Squad could do more in their attempts to find Gangadhar.
“He went missing two days before Natalie Pollonais and they were able to use all the technology to find her, why they couldn’t use that same procedure to find him?” the relative said.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts or other information concerning his disappearance can contact the police at 555, 800 TIPS or the nearest police station. | 2019-04-26T11:06:59 | https://www.stabroeknews.com/2018/news/regional/trinidad/10/13/trinidad-relatives-renew-call-for-help-in-finding-man-missing-for-42-days/ | [
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Sports massage speeds up recovery after a workout, warms up and softens the tissues, aligns the muscle fibers, improves circulation, speeds up the discharge of waste matter and lactic acid from the body.
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Royal massage is a specific direction in creativity, placed in front of two therapists with similar sensibilities and four arms. This is a specific way of dancing hands where one creates a movement and the other simultaneously follows.
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Massage with herb compress or hot cotton bolus' is one of the special techniques which is an integral part of modern anti-stress programs. Bolus bags are filled with herbs and their specific aromas have a calming and relaxing effect. This technique is "PINDA SWEDA" and is one of the earliest techniques in Ayuverda.
Massage is done by warmed bolus bags in order to heat the whole body, resulting in easing your energy blockades and pain relieving.
Hot chocolate massage nourishes and regenerates the skin, provides a vital force and brings you back into perfect harmony. Wonderful sense of highest quality chocolate on your skin has relaxing effect on mind and senses through scent as aromatherapy. Gentle relaxation massage relieves tension and stress, and the smell of chocolate will totally relax you and certainly lift your spirits. Cocoa, the main ingredient of the preparation, contains polyphenols that bind free radicals and neutralize them and thus protect the skin from premature aging. It contains magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, and amino acids which lead to the formation of serotonin also known as a happiness hormone, and endorphins which alleviate pain.
An anti-stress massage is a combination of relaxing and therapeutic massage, in which are used specially selected essential oils and bolus bags filled with aromatic herbs, thanks to which this massage has the characteristic of aroma therapy. This massage achieves a positive and stimulating effect on the central nervous system, and thus has a positive effect on mental processes, i.e. significantly reduces nervous tension and stress.
Foot reflexology is a holistic therapeutic treatment by which is balancing of vital energy achieved through foot massage (specific reflex points). There are 10 channels in reflexology, known as zones, extending from head to fingertips and toes, and vice versa. Each zone is associated with a particular zone of the body and organs of that zone. Reflex points of all organs and body parts are located on feet. By pressing on precise reflex points, the therapist obtain the information about the state of an appropriate body organ – if the place is pressure-sensitive, what the texture of the skin is, small lumps that can be detected, or if a reflex point is “weakened".
Soft and shiny skin is every woman’s wish. It is important to dedicate sufficient time and afford the care it deserves, because it is the most exposed organ of our body.
To achieve the desired effect, it is necessary to regularly remove impurities from it, primarily from its upper layer. Exfoliation is a very good solution to thoroughly clean the skin, which is the basis of skin care in general. With the removal of excess dead tissue, the natural regeneration of the skin's surface is stimulated gradually achieving the effect of softness and shine. The number and frequency of treatments depend on skin type and the type of peel.
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At the same time, it is an amazing body antioxidant.
The process is simple and the results are very good. It is the local application of selected cocktails which are determined by the doctor after the examination. Series of about 10 treatments are recommended.
To make the results more effective, the treatment is combined with anti-cellulite massage.
Skin tightening is carried out according to the same principle as the reduction of cellulite, except that the different mesotherapy cocktail is applied.
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Each and every day we witness increase in the number of obese people. There are some people who are successful in adoption of proper hygiene-dietetic habits and whose desire to be healthy, lean and attractive is strong enough so they manage to stick to the desired goal, i.e. they succeed in bringing their weight to an ideal one. However, we have seen too often that although someone achieved weight loss and desired weight, the critical lipid regions which still remained the same destroyed the ideal of a harmonious and attractive figure. The most common problem among women are hips, thighs, stomach and arms, while in most cases in men the critical region is stomach. Large abdominal girth (not just an aesthetic problem but a health issue as it is directly associated with high risk health) is in direct proportion to the risk of cardiovascular disease.
WHAT DOES A LIPOLYSIS TREATMENT LOOK LIKE?
A lipolysis treatment consists of lipolytic application with microinjections directly into the fatty tissue, and in the next month it melts and removes unwanted fat. After application a sense of itching and redness of the treated region appears in the next day or two. Some bruises may occur too, but disappear in just a few days. During the next month, after the injection of lipolytic cocktail, it is necessary that the patient adheres to a healthy diet and does not consume alcohol.
HOW LIPOLYSIS TREATMENT WORKS AND WHAT RESULTS CAN BE EXPECTED?
Lipolysis treatment can be called "non-surgical liposuction" because it acts locally in a similar manner as surgery – removes the local problem, i.e. removes local fat deposits. Thus, a series of 2-6 treatments remove fat from desired locations, thanks to substances that lead to the destruction of fat cells. This means that lipolysis treatment reduces the number of fat cells, which is extremely important because there is no yo-yo effect. It should be emphasized that common diet without lipolysis treatment does not decrease the number of fat cells. In that case, the cells are only getting smaller while we are losing weight, i.e. they "pump out", and we know very well how easily they could again "pump up". During one month, the girth may be reduced to 5-10 cm. Lipolysis treatment should be repeated every 2-6 weeks from 2-6 times.
WHAT IS INJECTED INTO THE FATTY TISSUE, ARE THERE ANY NEGATIVE EFFECTS?
Fatty acids which are out of the fat cells are signal that macrophages (scavengers of our body) rapidly come to the place of action and carry fatty acids to the liver, where they continue to metabolize.
Contraindications for the application of lipolyses treatment are pregnancy, breast-feeding, active malignant and autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases.
Before the treatment, a detailed physical examination and discussion with the patient must be done in order to make individually customized treatment regimen and achieve the best effect. | 2019-04-25T02:40:13 | https://medejacosmetic.com/en/services/body-treatments/ | [
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Dr. Gregg C. Anderson, D.C.
I hear it all in my office! In training to become a Sacramento chiropractor, I learned that taking a good patient history of the "chief complaint" is vital to an accurate diagnosis: What happened? What hurts? How bad? How long? Does is burn, ache, throb? Does anything help? Etc.
I've got to admit, I've heard some "doozie" stories: "I fell off the ladder." I took a tumble off the roof." "I skied into a pole." "I got rear-ended." "I tried to lift the..." There seem to be an endless list of major back catastrophes.
More often than not however, I hear stories "incredible" stories like these: "I bent over to pick up my shoe, my back went out, and now I am in so much pain, I can't stand it." Or "I got out of bed and by back went into spasm. That was a week ago!" Once I heard this one; "I leaned over while brushing my teeth, and I couldn't straighten-up. Now my leg is numb too."
These minimal events cause many more problems than the major traumas. Seems crazy huh! It does not make sense to most people how such little stresses can cause such severe problems.
When you understand how backs typically fail, it makes perfect sense. I sometimes use with the following example: Perhaps you remember the marble game called Kerplunk? Picture a vertical clear plastic cylinder with several long colored sticks going through the sides in all directions. Then there are a few dozen marbles sitting on top of them.
The game requires the player to cautiously remove only one stick at a time, being careful not to let the marbles fall through. Finally, when a player removes just one too many straws, it's Kerplunk! Some or all of the marbles fall to the bottom and that player is the loser. Backs go Kerplunk too. It happens all the time and is the cause of much pain, disability and confusion.
The reason most backs fail is actually simple. It is no mystery to spinal specialists. Over the course of a lifetime, your back is subjected to numerous stresses and strains from normal activities and perhaps a few more significant injuries. They can be minor, have little symptoms, and are usually self-limiting, meaning within a few days or weeks, the pain goes away all by itself.
It is important to look deep into the back to understand what that means. Whenever there is enough stress on any joint of the back, there is some microscopic tearing of the tissue that holds you together (ligaments) and those that stabilize your back ( core muscles).
When there are these "sub-failure" micro-tear injuries happen, the body will initiate the normal process of inflammation. This process involves an amazing sequence of healing chemistry that leads to the actual repair of the injured tissue. The tissue repair is ultimately performed by specialized cells called fibroblasts. Within a few weeks, they complete the repair with what is essentially, scar tissue.
If the injured parts are not re-aligned and mobilized during healing, this poorly adapted scar tissue can glue-up the joints and limit normal movement and function.
Without normal function, the deep core stabilizing muscles don't get full action as you move through your day, and like any unused muscle, they weaken and can't do their job. This weakening is often slow and progressive. Then, just like the weakening support of the marbles as the sticks are withdrawn in the Kerplunk game, stabilization is lost and it only takes a very small stress to make your back go "Kerplunk"-more tissue damage, spasm, pain and disability.
I highly recommend you visit my Sacramento Chiropractic practice for an honest assessment of your Kerpunk-li-ness, and I'll help you keep all your marbles where they belong!
Sacramento Chiropractor / Why Backs Fail / Anderson Chiropractic Clinic, Inc. | 2019-04-22T10:20:55 | http://www.andersonchiro.com/articles-by-dr.-anderson/backs-fail.html | [
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You may remember, dear reader, that I have called a bear market for equities. How am I doing so far? Well, the S&P 500 is up 13% from its February 11th intra-day low (1812). That sure doesn’t look good, does it? But I’m still convinced I’m right. I haven’t shorted the market yet, and won’t until the S&Ps break that February low. So this rally hasn’t hurt me, it’s just annoying to have to wait.Maybe Wall Street still has inventory to unload, as David Stockman says.
The signs of an impending flush are now everywhere. The March 15 release of business sales for January, for example, showed another down month. The critical inventory-to-sales ratio for the entire economy is now at 1.40—–a ratio last recorded in May 2009.
Once upon a time, when I was a young lad, investors used to watch the real economy, not the latest Fed head jabbering on CNBC. One of the things we paid keen attention to was the inventory-to-sales ratio because we knew that’s where recessions came from, and recessions were not good for the stock market.
When sales slow down, inventories build up. The build in inventories actually continues to boost GDP because the supply chain hasn’t got the message yet. When they do, they stop producing as much, inventories fall faster than sales and the GDP falls, giving us an official recession…ALWAYS after the fact. Those who watch GDP, like most economists, totally miss the boat. They never call the recession before it starts because they follow their models and not the real economy. Only highly intelligent and educated people can be this stupid, as I am fond of saying.
Business sales as reported on March 15 were down by 5.1% from their July 2014 peak. Declines of this magnitude have occurred only twice since 1992 and both times they signalled a recession.
Here is the chart of total business sales for all levels of the economy. Is this hard to understand?
The shaded areas mark recessions.
If you haven’t sold your stocks yet, the gods of the markets are giving you another chance, just an eyelash below the all-time highs. Accept the gift, dear reader, accept the gift.
Next Next post: Is China Dodging Its Debt Bomb? | 2019-04-18T16:33:28 | https://waynewile.com/business-sales-and-inventories-predict-a-big-flush/ | [
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My first week on the job as First Lite’s sales intern was definitely a whirlwind. Moving from PA to ID meant a lot of changes and one of the most exciting involved hunting. I was fortunate enough to get my hands on an elk tag which meant I would be going on my first spot stalk style hunt! We wasted no time and within the first few days of being in Idaho, I set out to find some elk.
pack out meat if we were successful in our hunt. We climbed and climbed quickly (working a 9-5 job only allows for so much week day hunting). Panting, sweating, and legs burning we reached the top of a ridge and began to glass. We scanned the mountains up and down, left to right, trying to spot a big brown elk. Glassing was more difficult than I had expected. The focus it requires, especially when recovering from the huffing and puffing of the climb, is another bullet point to the list of reasons why hunting is tough. To my surprise, I saw the brown blob I was looking for. It was the first elk I had seen in person and even though she was over a mile away, my excitement was uncontrollable. We watched for a minute or two longer and spotted what looked to be 2-4 other cows and possibly a bull. My first elk hunt was in full swing.
Move fast. That was all I could think while we hurried down the mountain. Daylight was against us, which added to the pressure to move quickly. We jumped back into the truck and drove about a mile to a portion of the road where we were better able to put a stalk on the elk. We were back to climbing straight up a mountain, but this time I was even more focused on staying quiet, avoiding stomping on sticks, and keeping my eyes up, ears alert. We reached the portion of the mountain where we thought we had last seen the herd. I had read it can be extremely difficult to relocate game after spotting them, and now I understood why. We paused for a second to try and determine where we saw them last when I heard ‘crunch, crunch, crunch.’ A quick hand signal and a turn of my head toward the direction of the noise and we simultaneously stopped and lowered our bodies to the ground. Here is where the classic hunting adrenaline rush ran through my body. Crouching as still as possible, eyes wide and ears intently listening, I waited while my heart pounded through chest. We continued to hear the elk crunching just 40-50 yards below us, but I still did not have eyes on them. I nocked an arrow and readied my release. There was a patch of brush blocking a portion of my view, but between a few branches, I saw her. She was about 35 yards from me, staring right into my eyes. I did not move (I don’t even think I took a breath). With her nostrils flaring and ears wiggling back and forth, I was sure she would spook off, but eventually she dropped her head and slowly moved back down the mountain. I would have taken a shot right there, but the brush was too thick and stopped me from drawing back my bow. The three of us looked at each other with a sort of “hell yeah, here we go” head nod then turned our attention back toward the action. All elk were out of sight, but we could still hear them, so I decided I would make a move toward the brush as a safe place to set up for a shot (we initially crouched down in a place with no cover) and to see if there was in fact a bull in the herd. As I began to crawl, we heard a big blow through the nose of what I like to imagine was a large bull. There must have been eyes on me that I did not see before I began to move. They knew we were there and not a second later the stampede of elk ran down the mountain. The sound of this elk herd running was louder than anything I could have imagined. I could literally feel the sounds and vibrations through my body. With that, I knew the hunt was over. I collapsed over my pack, dropped by bow, and felt the strangest sensation of exhilaration and heart break all in one moment. I was so overwhelmed with happiness to have had such an experience for my first elk hunt, and crushed with defeat because I had spooked the herd off. It was such a beautiful, raw moment that I will surely never forget. | 2019-04-21T17:08:00 | http://www.thesportsmansbox.com/sportsmens-blog/2015/9/28/a-first-elk-hunt | [
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A yod is formed when two planets that are sextile also form an inconjunct to another planet. These planets are in different signs and modes and are deeply significant, for they usually symbolize patterns in families that have lasted for generations. This is what Hamaker-Zondag discovered when she started to research the inconjunct aspect as it related to a yod. Also included in this book is a complete discussion of how the energies of unaspected planets, and planets in duet (that only aspect each other) are expressed in a person's birth chart. Hamaker-Zondag says that people with a yod are often insecure, or have trouble expressing themselves, and there is an emphasis on stalemates or unusual situations. She analyzes the background and places it in a broader perspective, including how she works with elements, modes, orbs, and other astrological factors when interpreting this aspect. All in all, this is one of the most exciting books on aspect interpretation published in recent years!
Included are great case histories: you have a chance to examine the Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton scenario and see it with new eyes. And Princess Diana, Prince Charles, and Prince William are not without these family patterns. The stories are profound. These aspects work in the lives of people who change the world, people who have lived the unpopular position of stalemate, delay, and social change indicated by the presence of a yod in their natal chart, by transit, or by progression. She uses the examples of Gandhi, Vaclav Havel, Khomeini, Solzhenitsyn, Willy Brandt, C. G. Jung, Jim Jones, and others. To help you work with your own clients, Hamaker-Zondag brings in the charts of her personal clients and explains them in depth.
When you've read this book, you'll want to check out the charts of everyone you know! | 2019-04-19T17:05:02 | http://redwheelweiser.com/detail.html?session=df427551750c059411dd7e481e2f0ba9&id=9781578631636 | [
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I have created a database of prospects who have used services in the past similar to what we offer. I understand the traditional ways of prospecting but in search of ideas which can give us maximum traction. All leads are qualified and don’t want to lose out on any single. What kind of response can I expect from 5K contacts? Thank in advance.
No one can give you a legitimate answer to this question.
First, while you have pre-qualified your leads somewhat they are not qualified yet. You and I have no idea whether they still need services like what you offer, or are open to talking about another supplier if they are.
Second, not all prospects are a fit on personality. You are not going to get along with everyone, and you do not want everyone as a customer.
Not wanting "to lose out on any single" prospect is a dangerous and frankly impossible mindset. Again, some people will be "Clients From Hell" and you do not want them in your business. And as above, you are simply not going to get "everyone" as your customer. So every time you do not, you are going to view that as "failure", which is disempowering and incorrect.
Third, the message of your offer and how well or poorly it matches up with that target market will determine who even talks to you. So there are many factors here outside the scope of this answer, such as who writes the copy, how good the pain points are and the level they resonate with the target market, the media/distribution channel you use to reach them, and so on.
Now if I was in your shoes, I would qualify further and then test.
So say out of these 5000 leads you qualify further for size and another pain point or two in your copy. Maybe you have a great call to action that separates the wheat from the chaff and gets engagement. You estimate--because that is all you can do at this point; you don't have any data to plan with, but as time goes on you'll collect some and be able to plan with increasing accuracy--30% will do the action...take a survey...sign up to watch a video...request a white paper.
Now you're down to 1,667 better-qualified prospects. If you get 10% of these to buy, you'd be doing well and that's 167 sales.
1 > Does this level of funnel flow support your money needs? Is 167 X $sale price$ = enough revenue for the period?
2 > Is this a sufficient activity level? The most common thing people discover on a coaching call with me is that they do not have enough leads going into their funnel to generate the revenue they need out the other end. They're flying by the seat of their pants and hoping.
Then you run the test and see what happens. Your feedback tells you how pre-qualified your traffic source really was, and how good or bad your conversion tool is.
Compare Planned to Actual results, hone in on where you can get your greatest bang for your buck, and adjust. Let me share a secret with you: it's usually the Traffic source. You can work on Conversion until you're blue in the face, but if Traffic is poor quality, you're only going to develop a trickle of sales no matter what you do. But a moderate change in Traffic quality can have a huge impact on Conversion, no matter how poor your conversion tool may be.
I've given you indicators to look at here and concepts to think about. But again, no one can tell you truthfully what kind of response you'll get from your list. You have to estimate, test, and adjust.
The prospect list is created based on our internal strategy of generating qualified leads with 100% certainty that these people have bought similar services in the past. We know for a fact that these people may or may not be interested now or are working with some other service providers.
We want to reach out to each and every prospects so as to maximise our chances of engagement and closure. The traditional method of cold call/mail is all fine but I am looking at new ways so as to create an interest among them. | 2019-04-20T16:46:58 | https://clarity.fm/questions/4209/modern-ways-to-getting-traction-from-prospective-clients | [
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The foot goes through the ground’s false ground.
in her legs, the nerves alive and suddenly singing fire.
to the light and they are dying to repay her.
like messages written in invisible ink.
into a negative bible of light on dark.
that detect the faintest afterthought of matter.
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Adam McGee was raised in rural Delaware and now lives in Boston, where he is completing doctoral work at Harvard University. His poetry has been published in Potomac Review. He holds an A.M. in African and African American Studies from Harvard University, and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School.
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These are really wonderful poems. Thanks for sharing them. | 2019-04-19T23:15:36 | https://miriamswell.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/two-poems-by-adam-mcgee/ | [
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Maureen Hancock is an internationally renowned Spirit Medium, intuitive, teacher, lecturer, Holistic Healer, and author of the bestselling book, “The Medium Next Door: Adventures of a Real-Life Ghost Whisperer.” She is the star of the Style Network documentary, Psychic in Suburbia.
Hancock has been interviewed by national television, radio, and print publications, including CNN, Associated Press, VH1, Martha Stewart Living magazine & radio, The Boston Globe, Coast-to-Coast radio, ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX Television programs all over the country.
She has spent decades demystifying the overwhelming subject matter of death, and helping individuals to flex their intuitive muscle, and tap into messages from spirit. Maureen’s work has brought comfort, hope and healing to the masses. She has taught workshops on intuition building to law enforcement, medical professionals, financial experts, and the “Average Joe.” She spends much of her time giving back by assisting those with terminal illness, sitting with newly bereaved parents, aiding law enforcement- including the FBI, and motivational speaking about life after death, stress management, intuition, and perspective building.
Maureen was a reoccurring guest on the Ricki Lake Show, and recently filmed a Television pilot for a major network with the hopes of having a nationally syndicated talk show in the near future.
She sent us her newest predictions for our readers to ponder.
Trump will stay in office, despite Mueller’s thorough, and fact-filled investigation, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the President was involved in a number of illegal activities, including campaign finance violations, back deals with Russia, The Saudi Prince, and more. February is a volatile time politically. Trump will NOT be reelected. Multiple indictments will be issued within days of the end of his term.
–Joe Biden will win the Democratic nomination for President. He will ask Beto O’Rourke to be his Vice President on the ticket.
Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke will be ever so close in the bid for the Democratic nomination. Joe Biden will win the nomination. Trump supporters will slide over to Biden with his “knock-him-out” old fashioned style tough talk. O’Rourke, with his Kennedy look-a-like persona will take the country by storm. However, his lackluster policy ideas, and not signing the bill for Social Security, as well as non-support of the bill for Medicare for All, will hurt him.
Trump will go neck-and-neck with Romney for the Republican nomination. I feel Trump will win the nomination.
I predict Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States.
The stock market takes another serious dive in February around the 14/15th. March shows improvement as a new deal with China is reached. Stocks soar to an all-time high with the China trade deal by April 1st.
The housing market: Mortgage rates will rise to 5.5% by June. Home prices will increase slowly, and inventory for new home buyers will go down. New construction will be at an all-time low by spring. June is peak time for the market to show these changes. This spring is a Seller’s market.
The end of 2019 shows signs of a recession.
Tensions remain high with Russia. March brings increased tensions with Putin due to a devastating military action in the Ukraine.
North Korea launches a missile test around May/June, causing increased tensions with the US (South Korea & Japan).
More troops will be deployed to Afghanistan by May/June due to increased tensions and military actions.
Trump will pull troops out of Syria beginning in March, and by summer he will have to order troops back, in larger numbers, due to an overwhelming attack on the Kurds.
–The winter will bring unexpected amounts of snow and Nor’easters to the whole East Coast, with the biggest surprise impact in February from Maryland to the Carolinas. Over 2 ft. of snow will fall on the Boston area around Feb. 6th, and the whole North East will be crippled by an even larger storm around Feb. 14/15th.
June brings a trifecta to California. an Earthquake, 6.2 scale or greater, followed by mudslides, and devastating drought brings wildfires the end of June.
A natural disaster in the form of an earthquake and volcano eruption for Italy around August.
Prince Harry & Duchess Meghan will give birth to a baby girl, with an “A” name (like Amelia) the end of February/beginning of March (not late March April as announced).
Prince Philip’s health declines significantly with a heavy gloomy feeling on November/December.
Taylor Swift will announce her engagement to Joe Alwyn around April.
Selena Gomez will undergo a serious medical procedure (possible stem cell transplant) by the summer.
Miley Cyrus will announce her pregnancy in June.
Jennifer Anniston adopts a baby by the fall.
Brad & Angelina talk reconciliation come summer.
Sofia Richie & Scott Disick announce their engagement this spring! Sofia will be pregnant by summer.
Bill Cosby has renal failure in prison. He might not make it through the treatment.
Venus Williams announces engagement to Nicholas Hammond by the summer. She will be pregnant soon after the quick wedding!
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But he had a goal: Kate Reid, who owns Royal Artisan in Baker City, asked him to be the featured artist for December.
The pieces don’t have one particular style.
After returning home, Andrew had occupational and physical therapy. After appointments, he had homework to do certain moves with his arms.
Bored with simple movements sitting in his wheelchair, he instead incorporated the exercises into his painting technique.
“We think that sped up his recovery,” Lea said.
Every day, he maneuvered his wheelchair across their gravel driveway to his shop. Instead of the power tools, Andrew worked in a smaller room outfitted with paint and brushes.
“Being in that damn wheelchair — it hindered the art,” he said.
But he filled canvas after canvas.
“Lots of Hobby Lobby trips in the wheelchair,” Lea said.
He received a prosthetic leg on Sept. 22. Although more mobile, he continued painting.
As he wrapped up his final paintings before the show opened, Andrew’s mind was clearly somewhere else — in a nearby room, where his sculptures await.
He’s been cleared to use power tools again after passing an eight-hour test that also allowed him to take a driving test.
He’s especially eyeing a life-like figure he created from wood scraps — the project he worked on the day of the accident so many months ago.
It is his version of a burning man. The final step in this piece of art is to burn it and then arrest the flames after it’s good and charred.
“I’m pretty excited to torch him,” Andrew said with a smile. | 2019-04-20T10:46:45 | https://www.bakercityherald.com/news/local/6745944-151/the-art-of-recovery?referrer=home&referrer=top | [
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Advocates for government accountability were alarmed to learn Gov. Jared Polis was undecided on whether to veto a bill to expand police transparency in Colorado.
But Polis spokeswoman Maria De Cambra set the record straight late Wednesday.
The signing is slated for 10:50 a.m. Friday at the Capitol, and it will be open to media, De Cambra said.
Polis is allowed to wait 10 days to sign bills, which gives him until Saturday in this case. In an earlier call Wednesday, De Cambra had said that the governor was still undecided.
The bill — HB-1119, sponsored by Democratic Denver Rep. James Coleman — would require Colorado law enforcement agencies to open the files on completed internal investigations into a wide range of police interactions with citizens, including alleged incidents of excessive force.
This would mean the public, media, lawyers and any other interested parties would, through open records requests, get a glimpse at how Colorado cops police themselves. As it stands, the Denver Police Department is the only Colorado law enforcement agency that consistently releases comprehensive information following internal investigations.
The bill passed the House and Senate and has been sitting on the governor’s desk for about a week, awaiting the final signature needed to make HB-1119 state law.
Upon learning Polis was not necessarily on board with the bill, the Colorado Press Association — one of the primary backers of the bill — sent out an email to its members that called the situation “urgent” and implored journalists and editorial boards to speak out now in support of HB-1119.
Media in the state have heralded the bill as a key step toward transparency from an institution that shrouds much of its accountability system in secrecy. The Denver Post’s Noelle Phillips testified in support of HB-1119 this year.
The effort’s other supporters include the ACLU and Colorado Common Cause, the libertarian Independence Institute and media groups such as the Colorado Broadcasters Association and the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition. Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene testified last year in support of a version of the bill. | 2019-04-21T05:21:57 | https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2019/04/10/watchdogs-worry-jared-polis-could-veto-police-transparency-bill/ | [
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If it were ever possible to cram all the glittering boy-meets-girl, high-school-love-story stereotypes into one movie, A Cinderella Story does it in spades. The 2004 movie stars Hilary Duff, whose father dies in an earthquake, forcing her to work in a diner for her evil stepmother who keeps her from chasing her college dreams. She meets a boy (Chad Michael Murray) online, but he’s in the cool crowd and she doesn’t fit in (even though she’s beautiful and smart). They agree to meet on the school dance floor, where she wears a mask barely covering her eyes so he magically can’t tell who she really is (even though you can see her entire face). Duff’s performance in the movie snagged her a Razzie nomination in 2005 for Worst Actress. Did anyone expect anything more? | 2019-04-21T10:10:38 | http://entertainment.time.com/2010/05/26/top-10-worst-chick-flicks/slide/a-cinderella-story/ | [
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Rank up to six of the week’s #1’s, then compare the two in the top and bottom position. We call it Love It Hate It for the weeks of Oct 11 and Oct 18, 2017.
As promised, I’m still running behind, so I’ve combined another two weeks of Love It Hate It. Here’s hoping that the first of the year will see a bit of slack in my schedule (only one planned travel week) and that there will be enough #1 issues to support a once a week review.
For the weeks of Oct 11th & 18th, there wasn’t a lot that interested me, so I’m thinking for the future I might start looking at things I typically wouldn’t pick up. To be honest, that’s the best way to find gems in the massive rubble that often makes up #1 comics. For now, let’s see what the past two weeks had to offer.
I’m not really sure how I managed to overlook this book when it came out, but I’m glad my friend Ashlie at the comic book store made sure she put it in my hands, literally. There is much to appreciate and like about this comic.
Writer James Tynion IV is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I know his work from the re-release of Detective Comics last year when he brought Batwoman back into a serious comic. And he did it well. Tynion IV knows how to include queer characters into comics without that diversity being all about the queer characters.
It’s true that many comic book fans want more diversity, but then publishers get it in their heads that the book itself needs to be all about that diversity, and that’s just not right. Those books, as we’ve seen time and time again, just won’t sale. The story needs to come first, and yes, the diverse characters have to be considered when creating that story, but that’s where it should end.
Here, Tynion IV creates a queer comic about ending diversity once and for all. His main character, Doctor Cyrus Crane, who is a geneticist and just happens to be gay and married, makes the ultimate sacrifice to see his dream come true. It seems somewhat ironic that a diverse character with a marginalized identity wishes to end diversity once and for all. This story is a must read.
As I’ve mentioned before, and I’m sure I’ll mention again, art and the words to talk about art often elude me. I can talk about color and layout and panels, and etc., but I often feel there are terms I should know that I just don’t. Suffice it to say that the art by Eric Donovan (Illustrator) and Dee Cunniffe (Colorist) is quite amazing. Don’t take my word for it though. Here is a sample from a two page spread.
My photo clearly does not do the image justice. This is why you should check this one out for yourself. The panel layouts go beyond the typical reading of left to right with nice clean borders, and the use of black for borders fits perfectly with the overall feel of the comic. I really do love this comic.
I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book. Quite frankly, it’s a bit hard to put it in the “hate” category. However, of the eight books I read for this review, it definitely was my least favorite.
When I dislike a book, it almost always boils down to the story being told. That’s the case with this book as well. Peter Milligan’s (W) story just doesn’t have enough to hook me for this one. We have a kid, who ends up having a new kind of lobotomy in hopes of curing his insanity. He then turns to helping others by performing lobotomies in his hotel and eating the removed parts of his patients/victims brains. The results are not always what he’d hoped.
The problem is that I don’t get it. I don’t know why he does it, I don’t know why he eats the sections of brain he removes, I don’t know if it gives him some sort of power, I just don’t know!!! And for me, not knowing usually means I’m done with the book.
It’s a book I won’t pick up again, and for that reason, it moves into the Hate category for this review. | 2019-04-23T00:58:56 | https://readacomic.com/tag/eric-donovan/ | [
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Orthognathic surgery is a corrective jaw surgery that straightens or realigns your jaw, and corrects related skeletal deformities that a patient may need. This type of surgery, done by an oral and maxillofacial surgeon (OMS) in a hospital setting which involves straightening and realigning the jaws using surgical plates or templates, screws and wires. The procedure aims at improving a person’s ability to speak, chew and breathe. This surgery can bring a dramatic improvement in the patient’s appearance.
Advanced techniques alongwith fully equipped latest medical facilities makes India affordable destination for chin implant surgery. India costs a tenth of the price of comparable treatment in western countries. | 2019-04-25T18:06:29 | http://www.alphinelife.com/chin-implant-surgery/ | [
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I like this Jim Marshall quote: “I worked hard but I never really considered it work. I always enjoyed myself and only took an assignment if I had complete control and access. My reputation was such that managers didn’t f*ck with me. I had the trust of the artist. I would work with them and they knew I wouldn’t f*ck around or do anything they didn’t like.” What a badass. Click through the tabs above to see some photos from this legendary photographer.
Marshall passed on in 2010, but his work lives on: a spectacular collection of his photos opens today at New York’s Steven Kasher Gallery. His pictures demonstrate intimate access with a roster of game-changing artists ranging from jazz greats like Miles Davis, to folk legends like Bob Dylan and larger than life rock ‘n’ roll stars such as Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix.
The guy owned his art with a fierceness that we can all aspire to. Extreme? Perhaps. But it’s that attitude that won the trust of his subjects and made these incredible images possible. Most of these shots are not staged. Trust is the most valuable currency when working with your subjects – especially fellow artists. I have experienced this in my own work with my Songs For Eating and Drinking project. No crowd, no managers, just artists at a table sharing good food and music.
It’s only rock’n’roll – but I like it. | 2019-04-18T22:19:32 | https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/legendary-rock-n-roll-photos/ | [
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This is the last installment as I tirelessly recount all the books I read last year. You can take Part 1 and Part 2, stitch it together with Part 3, and you’ve got the whole entire list!
These should also appear in the ever-growing up-to-date LGBTQIA Reading List.
The author writes a fictional auto-biographical account (that is, it’s completely made up, but liberally based on his childhood) about Kieran, a young Indian boy growing up in Cincinnati. His school is predominantly white, while his family still very much bound by Hindu traditions. Kieran might or might not be gay, though he does carry around a Strawberry Shortcake doll in his pocket, even if he’s 11 and probably too old for it.
I often can’t tell how long books are, because I use a Kindle, but when I don’t finish it in a handful of sittings it’s a longer book than normal. This book is long, but it’s refreshing to read a long, adult book for a change. The characters and story have much more depth and richness than a YA book ever could. Whether it was good or great I’m still on the fence, but it’s a good enough read that I’d recommend.
I read both of these during and after my top surgery, and they kept me well entertained so as to forget my uncomfortable physical state. Even though I had previously watched the movie for I Can’t Think Straight, the images for Despite the Falling Snow were just as vivid as if I had seen a movie. The first book is a bit lighter, while the second has a much slower pace, one that begs for taking the chapters in between sips of warm tea. (Note that I am grouping the books by author, they are not at all related nor a series).
Shamim Sarif is a wonderful storyteller. There is always a familiar camaraderie with the various characters, intermixed with different points of view, weaving complex revelations with comprehensive emotions. There is yet another book, The World Unseen, which I look forward to reading.
Jamie, a sophomore in high school, comes out to his mom and subsequently, the rest of his family, including his religious (Catholic) father and older jock brother. No, thankfully it’s not the depressing drama-fest you’d expect and nobody gets kicked out of the house. The focus is on the mom trying to keep her family together as each member lovingly – yes, with love – tries to work through their issues surrounding “gay.” This includes fighting culturally ingrained scripts, dispelling pre/ill-conceived notions, and obviously dealing with the (very) stereotypical religious institution banter.
Nothing spectacular to it; the writing, the characters, the plot are all pretty vanilla, even a little too drawn out and tedious at times. There is nothing to classify this book specifically as “adult” rather than YA, except that it is told from the perspective of the parent rather than the child, which makes it different. A seemingly ordinary book with a plot that is, unfortunately, still rather relevant. Maybe I’ll give it to my mom someday.
This is a very outdated lesbian retelling of Beauty and The Beast. Why outdated? Because the main premise of the book is that the “beast” is a woman, who likes women. And….. Yeah that’s it. She’s a “beast” because she’s a lesbian. In 2012 that kind of premise is no longer a big enough conflict to sustain an entire book, unless you add in other stuff. To be fair it was not written in 2012, more like 1990’s ish or earlier. Even so, it wasn’t all that great. Skip it; instead go read Ash by Malinda Lo for an excellent fairy tale retelling (that happens to be queer).
Lucky me, I’ve written a mini-review about this one as well.
Set in India in the 1970’s, the mystery of a young woman’s murder (or was it suicide?) is told through the eyes of two very different people. The first narrator we meet is Charu, who has just joinied the ranks of adulthood as well of Miss Timmins’ School as their newest teacher. She’s as inexperienced as she is naive. But surprise, surprise – she falls in love with the other schoolteacher, Miss Prince, the very one who fell (or was pushed?) to her death from a high cliff. The schoolgirls’ multi-colored raincoats, the aromas of Mr. Irani’s restaurant, the strict yet enigmatic Hindu teacher, and the unravelling stories of love and betrayal all enthrall you from the very beginning.
Don’t worry readers, there are no spoilers yet, as you learn all of this in the first few pages. But that’s the essence of the book – while you desperately want to unravel the mystery, you desperately don’t want the book to end either. What a conundrum! This is one of those books I’d label as “sabroso” – it’s one to savor rather than devour. It has certainly been a while since I whole-heartedly enjoyed a book this much.
More than three paragraphs no longer constitutes a “mini-review” and thus these two books probably deserve an entire post of their own. That should be enough to say that I quite recommend this series, though if you need more enticement read the plot summary I linked to.
I think this one also deserves its own page, but here’s a quick preview. The story is about Princess Shasta, a feisty teenager whose life is constantly endangered. Talon is sent to be her guardian, to protect her at all costs, and he takes this so seriously that more than once he risks his life for the princess. But Talon is “really” a girl, and the plotline (and my interest) hinge on this sole point.
On the whole, I’d recommend it, though I seriously want to pick this one apart and take the gender-bending analysis one step further.
Hopefully this gives you enough fodder to carry on your queer-reading crusade for the entire year. If you run out, be sure to check out the LGBTQIA Reading List I keep mentioning. Oh my, look at all those books I haven’t read!
I love that you’re doing these reviews – I’m still back in the ’80s, catching up on all the lesbian fiction I missed when I was younger – I am so glad you are collecting these lists for folks like me who are eager for moremoremore!
Thanks for the encouragement, it’s much appreciated. I am also catching up on all this literature I never knew existed. As you mention in your blog, while I was dilly-dallying somewhere, there was a whole world out there I didn’t know about. Time to discover it. | 2019-04-24T13:04:58 | https://genderqueer.me/2012/02/06/yearly-lgbtq-book-review-part-3/ | [
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The 47th United Nations General Assembly held its first special meeting on disability issues in October 1992. The General Assembly passed a resolution to make December 3 each year the “International Day of Disabled Persons”.
There are an estimated one billion people in the world with disabilities, accounting for over 15% of the world's population. The majority of these people live in developing countries. Over the years, with the efforts of the international community, the world has made some progress in protecting the rights of people with disabilities and building a barrier-free society. However, discrimination persists. For example, in many countries, up to 80% of people with disabilities cannot find work.
Therefore, the theme of this year’s International Day of Disabled Persons is: “empowering disabled people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality.” As the UN Secretary-General said in his 2017 address, “let us create opportunities that truly leave no one behind”.
The International Day of Disabled Persons on December 3 is an annual event aimed at promoting people's understanding of disability issues and mobilizing support for the protection of the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities.
According to statistics, there are more than 60 million disabled people in our country. Because of their disabilities, there are still some disabled people who are discriminated against by others in our society, which makes them encounter many difficulties in their work, study and life.
If we meet people with disabilities in our daily life, we should try our best to help them.
For example, on the bus, we should take the initiative to give up seat to the disabled;when walking on the street, people with disabilities should be helped to cross the street.We should also help push the wheelchairs of disabled people if we can.
Students of Haileybury Tianjin, let us all take the initiative to help the disabled and other people in need. | 2019-04-24T08:08:09 | http://haileybury.cn/index.php?g=Portal&m=Index&a=info&id=1020 | [
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10mg/ml: Each ml of oral solution contains 10mg furosemide.
Each ml of solution contains 0.2ml liquid maltitol (E965) and 83.2mg ethanol (alcohol).
Clear, colourless, greenish yellow to pale brown coloured solution with cherry flavour.
Furosemide is indicated in all conditions requiring prompt diuresis in patients who are unable to take solid dose forms. Indications include cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic and renal oedema, peripheral oedema due to mechanical obstruction or venous insufficiency and hypertension.
The medication should be administered in the morning to avoid nocturnal diuresis.
The usual initial daily dose is 40mg. This may be adjusted until an effective dose is achieved.
In the elderly, furosemide is generally eliminated more slowly. Dosage should be titrated until the required response is achieved.
This product should not be used in children below 18 years of age (see section 4.4).
This product should not be mixed with food or beverages before use.
The syringe adaptor should be placed in the neck of the bottle and the required dose should be drawn from the container into the graduated oral syringe provided. The open end of the syringe should be placed in the mouth of the patient, and the piston slowly depressed to release the contents.
Hypovolaemia or dehydration. Anuria. Renal failure with anuria not responding to furosemide, or as a result of poisoning by nephrotoxic or hepatotoxic agents, or associated with hepatic coma. Severe hypokalaemia and severe hyponatraemia. Pre-comatose and comatose states associated with hepatic encephalopathy. Breast feeding.
Contra-indicated in hypersensitivity to Furosemide, sulphonamides or any of the excipients listed.
Patients allergic to sulphonamides may show cross-sensitivity to furosemide.
This product should not be given to children because its ethanol content may affect their CNS.
Caution is required in patients liable to electrolyte deficiency. Regular monitoring of serum sodium, potassium and creatinine is generally recommended during furosemide therapy; particularly close monitoring is required in patients at high risk of developing electrolyte imbalances or in case of significant additional fluid loss. Hypovolaemia or dehydration as well as any significant electrolyte and acid-base disturbances must be corrected. This may require temporary discontinuation of furosemide. Where indicated, steps should be taken to correct hypotension or hypovolaemia before commencing therapy.
Urinary output must be secured. Patients with partial obstructions of urinary outflow for example patients with prostatic hypertrophy or impairment of micturition have an increased risk of developing acute urinary retention and require careful monitoring.
• Patients with hypoproteinaemia, e.g. associated with nephrotic syndrome (the effect of furosemide may be weakened and its ototoxicity potentiated).
Symptomatic hypotension leading to dizziness, fainting or loss of consciousness can occur in patients treated with furosemide, particularly in the elderly, patients on other medications which can cause hypotension and patients with other medical conditions that are risks for hypotension.
The use of some diuretics is considered to be unsafe in acute porphyria therefore caution should be exercised.
Concomitant use with risperidone: In risperidone placebo-controlled trials in elderly patients with dementia, a higher incidence of mortality was observed in patients treated with furosemide plus risperidone (7.3%; mean age 89 years, range 75-97 years) when compared to patients treated with risperidone alone (3.1%; mean age 84 years, range 70-96 years) or furosemide alone (4.1%; mean age 80 years, range 67-90 years). Concomitant use of risperidone with other diuretics (mainly thiazide diuretics used in low dose) was not associated with similar findings.
No pathophysiological mechanism has been identified to explain this finding, and no consistent pattern for cause of death observed. Nevertheless, caution should be exercised and the risks and benefits of this combination or co-treatment with other potent diuretics should be considered prior to the decision to use. There was no increased incidence of mortality among patients taking other diuretics as concomitant treatment with risperidone. Irrespective of treatment, dehydration was an overall risk factor for mortality and should therefore be avoided in elderly patients with dementia (see section 4.3).
Furosemide is not recommended in patients at high risk for radiocontrast nephropathy - it should not be used for diuresis as part of the preventative measures against radiocontrast-induced nephropathy.
Ethanol (alcohol): Each ml of oral solution contains 83.2mg ethanol (alcohol) i.e daily dose of 40mg furosemide would include 332.8mg ethanol (alcohol), equivalent to 8.32ml of beer or 3.47ml of wine.
Harmful for those suffering from alcoholism. To be taken into account in pregnant or breast-feeding women and high-risk groups such as patients with liver disease, epilepsy. Because of its ethanol content this product should also not be given to children.
Liquid maltitol (E965): Patients with a rare hereditary problem of fructose intolerance should not take this medicine.
ACE Inhibitors: Enhanced hypotensive effect when given with diuretics. A marked fall in blood pressure and deterioration in renal function may be seen when ACE inhibitors are added to furosemide therapy. The dose of furosemide should be reduced for at least three days, or the drug stopped, before initiating the ACE inhibitor or increasing the dose of an ACE inhibitor.
Alpha-blockers: Enhanced hypotensive effect when diuretics are given with alpha-blockers, also increased risk of first dose hypotension with post-synaptic alpha-blockers such as prazosin.
Analgesics: Diuretics can increase the risk of nephrotoxicity of NSAIDs, also antagonism of diuretic effect. Antagonism of diuretic effect (especially with indomethacin and ketorolac). Salicylic toxicity may be increased by furosemide.
Angiotensin –II Receptor Antagonists: Enhanced hypotensive effect when diuretics given with angiotensin-II receptor antagonists.
Anti-arrhythmics: Hypokalaemia caused by loop diuretics increases cardiac toxicity with amiodarone, disopyramide, flecainide, and antagonises the action of lidocaine and mexiletine.
Antibacterials: Avoid the use of diuretics in lymecycline treatment. There is an increased risk of ototoxicity when loop diuretics are given with aminoglycosides, polymyxins or vancomycin. Since this may lead to irreversible damage, these drugs must only be used with furosemide if there are compelling medical reasons. Impairment of renal function may develop in patients receiving concurrent treatment with furosemide and high doses of certain cephalosporins.
Antidepressants: Possible increase of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with reboxetine. There is an enhanced hypotensive effect when diuretics are given with MAOIs. There is an increased risk of postural hypotension when diuretics are given with tricyclic antidepressants.
Antiepileptics: There is an increased risk of hyponatraemia when diuretics are given with carbemazepine. The effects of furosemide are antagonised by phenytoin.
Antifungals: There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with amphotericin.
Antipsychotics: Hypokalaemia caused by diuretics increase the risk of ventricular arrhythmias with amisulpiride or sertindole. An enhanced hypotensive effect may be seen when diuretics are given with phenothiazines. Hypokalaemia caused by diuretics increases risk of ventricular arrhythmias with pimozide (avoid concomitant use).
Antivirals: Plasma concentration of diuretics may be increased by nelfinavir, ritonavir or saquinavir.
Atomoxetine: Hypokalaemia caused by diuretics increases the risk of ventricular arrhythmias with atomoxetine.
Barbiturates: Plasma concentrations of diuretics may be decreased. There may be an increased risk of osteomalacia when diuretics are taken in combination with Phenobarbital.
Beta-blockers: There is an enhanced hypotensive effect when diuretics are given with beta-blockers. Hypokalaemia caused by loop diuretics increases the risk of ventricular arrhythmias with sotalol.
Cardiac glycosides: Hypokalaemia caused by loop diuretics increases cardiac toxicity with cardiac glycosides.
Ciclosporin: there is an increased risk of nephrotoxicity and possibly hypermagnesaemia when diuretics are given with ciclosporin.
Cisplatin: There is a risk of increased ototoxic effects if cisplatin and furosemide are given concomitantly. In addition, nephrotoxicity of cisplatin may be enhanced if furosemide is not given in low doses (e.g. 40mg in patients with normal renal function) and with positive fluid balance when used to achieve forced diuresis during cisplatin treatment.
Corticosteroids: The diuretic effect of diuretics is antagonized by corticosteroids. There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with corticosteroids.
Other Diuretics: There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with acetazolamide. Profound diuresis is possible when metolazone is given with furosemide. There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with thiazides and related diuretics.
Lithium: Loop diuretics reduce the excretion of lithium, which may lead to increased plasma concentrations and a risk of toxicity. Therefore, it is recommended that lithium levels are carefully monitored and where necessary the lithium dosage is adjusted in patients receiving this combination.
Potassium salts: There is an increased risk of hyperkalaemia when given with potassium salts.
Sucralfate: Furosemide and sucralfate must not be taken within 2 hours of each other as sucralfate decreases the absorption of furosemide from the intestine and so reduces its effect.
Sympathomimetics, Beta2: There is an increased risk of hypokalameia when loop diuretics are given with high doses of beta2 synpathomimetics.
Tacrolimus: There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when given with tacrolimus.
Theophylline: There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with theophylline.
Carbenoxolone, prolonged use of laxatives, liquorice: May increase the risk of developing hypokalaemia.
Warfarin and clofibrate: Warfarin and clofibrate compete with furosemide in the binding to serum albumin. This may have clinical significance in patients with low serum albumin levels (e.g. in nephrotic syndrome). Furosemide does not change the pharmacokinetics of warfarin to a significant extent, but a strong diuresis with associated dehydration may weaken the antithrombotic effect of warfarin.
Probenecid, methotrexate and other drugs which, like furosemide, undergo significant renal tubular secretion may reduce the effect of furosemide. Conversely, furosemide may decrease renal elimination of these drugs. In case of high-dose treatment (in particular, of both furosemide and the other drugs), this may lead to increased serum levels and an increased risk of adverse effects due to furosemide or the concomitant medication.
Risperidone: When administering risperidone, caution should be exercised and the risks and benefits of the combination or co-treatment with furosemide or with other potent diuretics should be considered prior to the decision to use. See section 4.4 Special warnings and precautions for use regarding increased mortality in elderly patients with dementia concomitantly receiving risperidone.
Results of animal work, in general, show no hazardous effect of furosemide in pregnancy. There is clinical evidence of safety of the drug in the third trimester of human pregnancy; however, furosemide crosses the placental barrier. It must not be given during pregnancy unless there are compelling medical reasons. Treatment during pregnancy requires monitoring of fetal growth.
Furosemide passes into breast milk and may inhibit lactation. Breastfeeding must be avoided during treatment with furosemide.
No human data on the effect of furosemide on fertility are available. In rats, there was no effect on mating or fertility with furosemide treatment.
Mental alertness may be reduced and the ability to drive or operate machinery may be impaired.
In general, if furosemide is administered to premature infants during the first weeks of life, it may increase the risk of persistence of patent ductus arteriosus. Risk of nephrocalcinosis/ nephroliathisis.
The clinical picture in acute or chronic overdose depends primarily on the extent and consequences of electrolyte and fluid loss, e.g. hypovolaemia, dehydration, haemoconcentration, cardiac arrhythmias – including A-V block and ventricular fibrillation. Symptoms of these disturbances include severe hypotension (progressing to shock), acute renal failure, thrombosis, delirious states, flaccid paralysis, apathy and confusion.
There are no specific antidotes to furosemide. If the ingestion is recent, attempts to limit further systemic absorption may be performed, through gastric lavage or others measures that may minimize absorption (i.e. activated charcoal).
The clinically relevant fluid and electrolyte balance changes must be corrected. Along with the prevention and treatment of serious complications resulting from such imbalances and other effects in the body, this corrective action may require general and specific intensive medical monitoring and therapeutic measures.
Furosemide is a potent loop diuretic which inhibits sodium and chloride reabsorption at the Loop of Henlé. The drug eliminates both positive and negative free water production. Furosemide acts at the luminal face of the epithelial cells by inhibiting co-transport mechanisms for the entry of sodium and chloride. Furosemide gains access to its site of action by being transported through the secretory pathway for organic acids in the proximal tubule. It reduces the renal excretion of uric acid. Furosemide causes an increased loss of potassium in the urine and also increases the excretion of ammonia by the kidney.
Furosemide is a weak carboxylic acid which exists mainly in the dissociated form in the gastro-intestinal tract. Furosemide is rapidly but incompletely absorbed (60-70%) on oral administration and its effect is largely over within four hours. The optimal absorption site is the upper duodenum at pH 5.0. Regardless of route of administration, 69-97% of activity from a radio-labelled dose is excreted in the first 4 hours after the drug is given. Furosemide is mainly eliminated via the kidneys (80-90%); a small fraction of the dose undergoes biliary elimination and 10-15% of the activity can be recovered from the faeces.
When oral doses of Furosemide are given to normal subjects the mean bioavailability of the drug is approximately 52% but the range is wide. In plasma, Furosemide is extensively bound to proteins mainly to albumin. The unbound fraction in plasma averages 2 - 4% at therapeutic concentrations. The volume of distribution ranges between 170 - 270ml/Kg. The half life of the ß phase ranges from 45 - 60 min. The total plasma clearance is about 200ml/min. Renal excretion of unchanged drug and elimination by metabolism plus faecal excretion contribute almost equally to the total plasma clearance. Furosemide is in part cleared by the kidneys in the form of the glucuronide conjugate.
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Sentiments/Non-Humans: Mostly indifferent, sees most human-like D-bees as just another human, still can't help but stare at D-bees that are very different/alien.
Sentiments/Coalition: Thinks of them as stuck up at best, no matter what his superiors and the government say.
Disposition: Generally friendly sort of fellow, hangs out with the rest of the squad when off duty. On-duty he takes his job seriously, though he is not the by-the-book sort and will bend or out-right break the rules if the situation calls for it.
Description: Athletic, wiry build, green eyes, black hair that is long on the top and pulled back into a warriors knot and shaved on the sides, also has a fair number of tattoos across his back, chest, & arms. These tattoos are a collage of power armor suits and robot vehicles from every manufacturer that sells these types of units in North America with steam-punk designs tying the individual pieces together.
Max. Carrying Weight: 250 lbs.
Max. Lifting Weight: 500 lbs.
Triple Damage against Robots when a "natural," unmodified 18, 19 or 20 is rolled on an Aimed Shot. This applies only to robots and not power armor exoskeletons.
armor, vehicles and robot vehicles by 5%.
Spiritual and Determined: +2d4 to M.E.
Spiritual and Determined: Inner Strength; has additional P.P.E. and can use TW items.
Agile and Dexterous: +2d4 to P.P.
Agile and Dexterous: Ambidextrous trait; Can use both the right and left hand with equal skill and dexterity; Paired Weapons skill is automatic. +1 APM, +10% to Climbing skills, +5% to Pick Locks, Pick Pockets, Palming, and Concealment skills.
Cannot be surprised, even from behind.
W.P. - Sharpshooting: Handgun; +1 attack per melee, Aimed: +3 strike, Called: +5 strike, Quick Draw: +4 initiative, Trick Shooting: Dodge, roll, or somersault and come up shooting, these are in addition to W.P. - Handgun bonuses.
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NG-X67 "Prophet" Infantry Power Armor - "Milashka"
* -4 to strike on a called shot, and must be a Called shot.
** Depleting the Main Body of MDC will shut the suit down.
*** Force field regenerates at a rate of 1 MDC/melee round.
Cat-like landings from heights: up to 200' without damage.
Criminal I.D. Recognition System; Is programmed with 250,000 known criminals, wanted fugitives, Black Marketeers, terrorists, enemies of the state, bounties, identifying markings, known gang emblems, symbols, emblems, patches, & colors.
Advanced Camera; this is mounted in the helmet has and has superior telescopic zoom (Range: 2 miles) and a macro-lens (x12 magnification), it can take stills & video (96 hours & 8,000 images), and it can be transmitted live (Range: 5 miles).
Digital Dash-Cams (8); two in the helmet, 2 in the chest, 1 in each forearm, 2 in the back w 48 hours of record time & can take 4,000 stills.
Peekaboo Cameras (2); located behind the left & right shoulders, can be used to peak around corners or through foliage without exposing oneself.
Special & Standard Helmet Optics; Passive night-vision, Thermal imaging, IR, UV, black-light, laser distancer, IR light, & voice modulation (20 variations).
Warning System & Multi-Cameras; Tied into the cameras & sensor array is a motion detection warning system that gives an audible voice warning/notification when the system picks up or spots something notable within 100'. This includes not only incoming fire or danger, direction, distance, but also subjects picked up by the Criminal I.D. System meaning it will give information about said subject as well, at least info it has in its files. This is basic info like name, race, friendly/hostile, or gang/group affiliation.
Note: Used, has only 65 MDC, -5% Prowl (only to prowl, other movement is fine). A skilled operator could repair the suit to bring it to full MDC, but it would take double normal time. The Prowl penalty can be removed by redoing the fabric lining of the suit. What Victor didn't notice is that the legs have some bad repair to the fabric lining, it crinkles and cracks as the wearer moves. What he did notice is that the suit has been outfitted with four concealed pockets. One on the back is useful for a medium or smaller handgun. Two are on the inside of thighs are are suitable for hiding papers or the like (such as maps). The third is on the inside of the chest, it's only accessible when the suit is off. It can hold a larger volume of flat stuff compared to the thighs.
• Mega-Damage: 2d4 M.D. or 4d6 M.D.
• Mega-Damage: 3d6 M.D. or 1d4x10 M.D.
• Weapons: None built in.
• Note: May overheat if used continuously for more than four hours (01-40%). Overheating will destroy the machine; should be allowed to cool for two hours after every two or three hours of continuous use.
Note: Used, has only 28 MDC, gets only 750 miles per charge, 12 years old. Otherwise in great working order. It would take rebuilding the housing almost completely to get the MDC back. Installing a new battery would restore the range to 800 miles.
The brain child of the KLS corporation, this rail gun design is a miniaturized version of the RG-14 Electromagnetic Mass Driver. It's flexibility, efficiency, and relatively light weight make it the most potent man-portable, anti-armor & anti-demon weapon system ever produced. The only drawback is the delay in discharge as the capacitors spool up to release the hypersonic sabot payload. Several cases of these rifles have been released for field testing.
Helical magazines must be custom made by highly skilled weapons shops and have a base cost of 1000 credits each.
APDS rounds must be custom made by highly skilled weapons shops and have a base cost of 250 credits each.
two sets of street clothes, pocket flashlight, tinted goggles, small digital photo album that has pictures of his family & friends, box of disposable plastic gloves (100 per box), three weeks of freeze-dried combat rations, duffle bag, air filter, 2-person tent, hunting & fishing kit, 30' of lightweight climbing rope, survival knife, small hatchet, short range radio, Hard-shell backpack from NG-X67.
Damage: 5d6+3 or 3d4x10 M.D.
Payload: 240 shots using a portable generator, which regenerates 8 shots per hour. Can also be directly linked to a vehicles power supply (Nuclear or Solid-Ox) giving it a virtually unlimited payload.
Weight: Laser cannon - 40 lbs., Portable generator - 30 lbs.
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Victor Calvin Singer was born to Robert and Karen Singer, he also has a sister named Christine who is just a year younger. His family lives in the Manistique Imperium where Victor was raised. His father works in a Northern Gun assembly plant that just so happens to turn out final assemblies of robot vehicles and power armor suits, interestingly enough his sister also works at the plant these days, though she began there after Victor left for the Army. From an early age he was fascinated by the robot vehicles and power armor that has dad built. Mainly it was the smaller power armor suits that caught his attention, how a soldier could go into combat in such a suit and take out a much larger, more heavily armored robot or a 20’ tall supernatural monster was exciting to him. So, when he turned 18 it seemed only natural that he join the Army and apply to be a PA pilot. With his reflexes plus his almost obsessive knowledge of power armor, he became an excellent soldier…at least on paper and tests.
Somehow, during his 4 years of service, Victor was always assigned or re-assigned to a unit that was in the single most boring and inactive post. He has been in only 4 minor fire fights and even than his squad was either on mop-up duty or just on standby in case things went sideways. So, once his 4 years of enlistment was up, Victor applied for private military contractor status, purchased a Blue Boy power suit and moved on. He has done half a dozen solo jobs, but he’s found it is much more difficult to carry out a mission when you don’t have a squad at your back. This lead him to contact some old friends back home about any work they might know of. One friend in particular responded, Mindy Corsair. She in turn suggested he get hold of Emerald Ecks and after a long conversation about her brother Royal and his...life lessons...Emerald convinced Victor to reach out to Royal. Apparently her brother had for some time now been running a mercenary unit out of MercTown and she thought they might be hiring. Victor has misgivings about Royal, as he wasn't the nicest guy when they were kids, but Victor knows and trusts both Emerald and Mindy. In particular Mindy's word means most to him since she was not a fan of Royal when they were younger...now she seems to be genuinely proud of the guy. Victor figures it couldn't hurt to go and meet up with Royal and see what is what. So, he contacted Royal and the two set up a meet in MercTown. Now, looking at the city of MercTown from a nearby hilltop, Victor hopes his trek here means work...preferably paying work.
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Used T-42 Commando = 38,000 (pg. 38 of Triax & NGR) Note: Has only 45 MDC, -5% Prowl (only to prowl, other movement is fine). What Victor didn't notice is that the legs have some bad repair to the fabric lining, it crinkles and cracks as the wearer moves. What he did notice is that the suit has been outfitted with four concealed pockets. One on the back is useful for a medium or smaller handgun. Two are on the inside of thighs are are suitable for hiding papers or the like (such as maps). The third is on the inside of the chest, it's only accessible when the suit is off. It can hold a larger volume of flat stuff compared to the thighs.
Used NG-WJ10 Speedpack (electric) = 28,000 (pg. 193 of Northern Gun 2) Note: Has only 28 MDC, gets only 750 miles per charge, 12 years old. Otherwise in great working order. It would take rebuilding the housing almost completely to get the MDC back. Installing a new battery would restore the range to 800 miles.
Victor will look over several junkyards for this and will ask each of the owners to keep an eye out for the launcher or see if any of them will place an order for one, so to speak.
None are available. Most of the dealers in Merctown are unfamiliar with the NGR military hardware. The Super Trooper is rare outside the military even in Europe. By the third junkyard the dealer tells Victor he got a call from Kraus telling him to not deal with Victor.
1d8 = 4: Receive a +2D6 Attribute Boost to P.S.
(1) Receive a +2D4 Attribute Boost to M.E.
+2d4 = 4 to M.E.
+1d4 = 3x10=30 to P.P.E.
NOTE: No point in rolling the sub table on the next two, since both are on the same sub-table and Victor already has 2 of the 4 on said sub-table.
(1) Receive a +2D4 Attribute Boost to P.P. | 2019-04-19T12:34:55 | http://explorersunlimited.com/eu/viewtopic.php?f=387&p=1350267&sid=4b6e746fc1713ee8916bfaa989ef2cdd | [
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This is one of the many things in my life as a gay man that I cannot take for granted. Even if Bob and I were to marry in New York State, there is no guarantee that an emergency room in another state would honor our marriage, or respect the 23 years we’ve shared together, or the fact that my health effects Bob as much as it does me, or that his presence at my side could actually help me heal or keep me alive. I cannot presume that or any of the basic rights and needs that straight couples can take for granted. My legal right to property, bank accounts, employment, protection from hate-based violence, and more, are currently being voted on from state-to-state and argued by presidential candidates as if my civil rights and happiness are a mater of public opinion.
The thing is, when it comes to my rights as a gay man, I’ve never taken anything for granted. Growing up in the Midwest of the 1960s and ’70s, I never presumed I would have any real happiness at all. I never expected that I would be able to share my life with someone I really loved, no matter how much I longed for it. That was unimaginable back then.
And as I got older, I never expected that I would be blessed to meet the love of my life and be so loved by him. I never expected my parents to be as loving, accepting and respectful of me and Bob as they both were. Same from my sisters and brother. I never presumed I would be able to speak of my partner in the workplace or hold hands with him in the public park. All of these things that straight people can take for granted from the moment they start dating, are that much more of a gift for me, because I never expected them or felt entitled to them. These basic human needs, protected as rights for others, are still a gift to me, even though my own pursuit of happiness, life and liberty depend upon them.
And so, most importantly, I still can’t take this election for granted or my duty to vote for granted. I have friends–too smart for their own good–who are actually considering voting third party or not voting at all on principle, because of their differences or disappointment with both candidates on other issues. They take for granted that not voting will have no more affect on their own lives than voting would, but appear not to have considered the effect these elections could have on me and Bob.
And there are also extended family members and friends who intend to vote for former governor Romney. I can’t imagine voting for any candidate who I knew intended to limit any of their the civil rights, but they will vote for a candidate and his running mate who have promised to do so to Bob and me.
As in my youth in the 1960s and ’70s, I still can’t take for granted that anyone–family, friends, or fellow citizens of this land of the free–will have my health, my rights, my relationship, or my life in mind on Election Day. And I, once again, feel the same pain of second-class citizenship, lowered expectations, uncertainty, and vulnerability, that I’ve known my whole life.
Therefore, all I can ask of these friends and family, all I can hope, is that on Election Day, just before you pull the lever on the voting machine, or walk past the polling location in your neighborhood complacently, that you will imagine Bob and my faces. That you will remember your uncle, cousin, friend, whom you have cared about, bought Christmas gifts for, shared meals with, checked up on in emergencies and invited to your weddings, and think of how your vote can affect the quality of Bob and my life, the home that we share, and the rights that you are lucky enough to take for granted, that I will never take for granted, even if they are ever fully mine. | 2019-04-21T13:07:20 | https://seeinggodnaked.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/things-i-cant-take-for-granted/ | [
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ALEXANDRIA, VA – In an effort to educate and help consumers, the American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA) asked the Department of Transportation to impose requirements on household goods transportation brokers that use the Internet to market interstate moving services.
40 Florida-based scam movers, AMSA President Joe Harrison wrote to Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, urging him to strike another blow at one of the roots of the problem-questionable practices of many Internet brokers of household goods transportation services.
Under the rules proposed by AMSA, all Internet HHG brokers would have to abide by the same federal regulations that apply to all other freight transportation brokers, as well as others devised to meet the unique challenges posed by the explosive growth of broker websites on the Internet medium.
The regulations proposed by AMSA are designed to fill the existing regulatory gap. The current regulations are passive while the proposed regulations would require brokers to act affirmatively by making specified disclosures to consumers. Importantly, AMSA emphasized, the regulations would apply regardless of the medium through which services are held out and therefore ensure that the Internet is not used as a device to avoid regulation.
The broker would be required to disclose its federal license, the capacity in which it holds itself out, and reveal its locations and a telephone number so that customers can communicate with a person. This is designed to remove the cloak of anonymity.
Brokers could only refer shipments to federally licensed interstate movers.
Brokers would provide information concerning the consumer’s rights and responsibilities, explain carrier liability options for loss or damage, and the availability of a dispute settlement program.
Because the vast majority of scam mover abuses involve deceptive cost estimates, brokers would have to provide a full written explanation of all charges and how they might change in the course of a move.
A common practice of scam brokers is to demand a deposit in advance of the move, a practice that is not followed by legitimate movers. Under the AMSA proposal, the terms governing deposits and forfeitures would be fully disclosed before a deposit could be demanded.
Because it is common for scam brokers to close down and disappear, brokers would be required to maintain a bond or trust agreement and to disclose to consumers that this is a potential avenue for recourse.
Brokers would be responsible for reporting mover abuses and violations of the consumer protection regulations that are brought to their attention by their customers to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Because of the scope of the problem, the association asked Mineta to act as quickly as possible. “AMSA, Congress, and consumer groups all agree that consumer education is an important component of the overall effort to steer consumers away from utilizing rogue movers and brokers,” Harrison told the DOT secretary. | 2019-04-24T22:18:30 | http://movers.witruck.org/regulations/amsa-asks-dot-to-help-consumers-by-requiring-internet-hhg-broker-disclosures/ | [
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We are into the season of giving, but for some dishonest scammers, it is a season for taking. Older adults are targeted more often because they answer their home phones, they have more cash available and the services scammers purportedly offer are more often the services older adults may want. Older adults may be more trusting as well. So, if you are a caregiver to an older loved one, here are some of the scams you should alert your loved one to and be on the lookout yourself: • Great Investments - If there is one thing that older adults fear more than losing their mental faculties, it likely is running out of money. They may have made solid investments in safe securities, but they may be easy prey for someone calling to let them in "on a limited time offer." It may not be huge investment, but it promises a hefty return. Just remember, if it seems too good to be true, it most often is. • Cheaper Medications - With the changes of the Affordable Care Act, older adults will have the chance to save more money on their expensive prescriptions, but the allure of cheaper meds offshore is still present on the internet. Make sure that the pharmacies making the offer are legitimate - and many are - but ask for substantial verification before ordering scrips; your loved one's primary care physician may be of help. • Fake Charities - This is another one where you want to verify the legitimacy of the cause. Especially on the heels of the tornado disasters recently, there may be callers posing as agents to get money to victims of disasters. Verify! The IRS posts lists of tax exempt charities on its web site, and there is another great site called Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/). • Pleas for Help - What grandparent does not have a soft spot for their grandchildren? Scammers can call older adults with just enough information to appear as one of the grandchildren in some kind of trouble that requires an immediate cash transfer. Caution your older loved one not to respond to calls from "their favorite grandchild" that offer no identifying name. Verify! • Bad Checks - If your older loved one is selling anything on-line, beware of the scammer who just happens to have a cashier's check that is for an amount much greater than the purchase price. They will ask if the excess can be wired to them along with transfer of the item. This is the part where the original check turns out to be bogus, so your loved one is out the sale item and the cash difference. All of these are just some of the examples that have played out in holidays past, but be prepared for the next new scam. And know that it will be too good to be true. Charlotte Bishop is a Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. Please email your questions to info@creativecaremanagement.com.
Since our bodies process liquor differently as we get older, reconsider what may have been a healthful or safe amount of consumption in younger years.
Carefully assess what medications are going to be mixing with the alcohol…does the alcohol dilute the health effect, amplify the side effects – allergy and sleeping meds are a real issue?
Alcohol is not a one and done; it can have a cumulative negative effect on the immune system, the brain, heart, bones, digestive system and the senses.
Alcohol makes a person sleepy, but it is a real sleep disrupter; “night caps” are a myth.
Alcohol can create socially-disturbing situations; no one ever regretted saying something because they drank too little.
By all means, wait for the next study. Note who has sponsored it, who the study subjects were and how long term they studied the subjects. And take note of how healthy the subjects were so that you can be as fit on all dimensions in order to consider if you want to be moderate on others. Charlotte Bishop is an Aging Life Care Advisor, Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. She also is the co-author of How Do I Know You? A Caregiver’s Lifesaver for Dealing with Dementia.
Please consider what I am sharing with you here to be the raw material side of recommending some recipes for your upcoming Thanksgiving feast. By raw materials, I mean that these recommendations are not recipes, strictly speaking, but I am recommending your feast this week have ample quantities of vitamins D and E. In fact, you might carry these doses over into your regular diet after this week. If you are like most folks who have been following advice on healthy eating, you already appreciate that vitamin D is very important for bone health and vitamin E is central to heart health. But what you may not have seen is that both of these also are important to brain health. Separate studies have shown that vitamin E can help to keep Alzheimer's at bay and vitamin D can lower the risk of cognitive decline. Starting with the case for vitamin E, researchers at New York State University have studied the effect of regular quantities of walnuts (rich in vitamin E) on what they termed "Alzheimer's-susceptible mice." Granted, these are animal studies, but the nutrition needs of mammals can be generalized to some extent. And their results published just this month were quite striking. The group of mice in their experiment who consumed regular doses of walnuts showed statistically significant improvement in learning, memory, motor skills and even anxiety levels over the mice who received no walnuts. (How do they measure anxiety in mice?) No surprise that walnuts contain Omega-3 fatty acids as well as other antioxidants which have been proven in other studies to ward off cognitive decline. And then there is vitamin D. This was a study among older Italian adults rather than mice. The researchers tracked vitamin D levels of nearly 2,000 adults whose average age was 73.9 years for over four years. They found that those individuals with vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency (measured by their serum 25OHD) were more likely to have declining cognitive skills as measured by a standard test called the "Mini-Mental State Examination." This was compared to their baseline test at the outset of the study which showed all participants to begin at comparable and robust levels of mental ability. It is important to note that this second study simply noted the differences among individuals based on their blood serum levels and did not control what they ate. More testing will be needed to see if vitamin supplements can make a positive difference versus in mental capacity. And, of course, the first study was on mice, so it would be helpful to move this up to humans. And by the way, the amount humans would consume to give the equivalent dose for what the mice ate would be only about 1-1.5 ounces of walnuts daily. So, if you are a caregiver to an older loved one this holiday, these two studies may not include any recipes, per se, but they do suggest what you may wish to add to your Thanksgiving spread as well as the dinners that will follow. And you don't have to choose between these two vitamins; cover your bets by adding a bit of D and a bit of E. Charlotte Bishop is a Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. Please email your questions to info@creativecaremanagement.com.
Well, not exactly, but if you or an older loved one goes to the hospital, beware of what can happen that is not outpatient, and it is not inpatient. They call it Observation, and it may seem like your loved one has been admitted for an overnight stay, because they do get “discharged” – but in this case in just about 23 hours. Because it is NOT an inpatient stay, it has a different payment requirement and according to recent research, it seems to unfairly target poorer Medicare-eligible Americans. According to the longstanding rules of Medicare, patients with this coverage pay a fixed cost for an inpatient stay and that is going to cover the majority of costs incurred while in the hospital as well as follow-up nursing care and even repeat hospitalizations that occur within two months of that first visit. There are also rules for the short stay that is less than 24 hours; they call this an “observational stay.” And if you are a caregiver to an older loved one, you will want to ask for a very clear answer whenever your loved one is in the hospital. You will want to ask the registration people or the nurse on their unit if this is an observational stay or an inpatient stay. The reason you need to ask is that there are substantial cost differences. A patient under “observation” will be billed for a one time out of pocket fee along with 20 percent of any hospital services bills and the tab for any medications. If you are told that this is to be an “observational” visit, get in touch with your loved one’s physician and have them go to bat for you. The hospital makes more money on an observational visit…and it may not be warranted. There is more. The poor pay more…more often that is. In a recent study by some policy researchers published in The American Journal of Medicine, they looked at the Medicare claims data for some 132,000 hospital observations across 97 percent of all the U.S. counties. They compared the wealthiest quarter of these patients with the poorest quarter and found that the patients in the poorest quartile were 24 percent more likely than their more affluent counterparts to have three or more observational stays in a year. We would like to think that no hospitals are looking to take undue advantage of poorer patients, and there is the potential for Medicaid to offset some of the difference. It does suggest, however, that less affluent patients may not have someone who goes to bat for them, someone who will ask the right questions. So, if you are a caregiver to an older loved one, now you know to ask the right questions. And you know what the answers should be. Charlotte Bishop is a Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. She also is the Amazon Bestseller and author of How Do I Know You: A Caregiver’s Lifesaver for Dealing with Dementia.
Take care of the caregiver: The person whose needs most often are at the bottom of the list is the caregiver to an AD patient. Do something for you, and it will make it easier to do all those other things for all those other people.
Be realistic: We all tend to have a notion about what the "holiday is supposed to be." That may not be feasible when a loved one has Alzheimer's, so work within the capabilities and the comfort zones of all concerned.
Include everyone in the plan: If you talk over plans for the holiday with all the family, it can help all to enjoy the event. Everyone will have had a say in what happens and expectations will be better met.
Avoid over-doing the alcohol: There is a great deal of loneliness in being a caregiver to a loved one in decline, so avoid the inclination to self-medicate. If you as a caregiver already feel melancholy, alcohol will only fuel the depression.
Let visitors know: If visiting family does not know exactly what to expect from a loved one with AD, they probably will not act appropriately. Help them to understand about talking and living in the moment.
Let your loved one know: For patients with early onset AD, there can be moments of lucidity as well as confusion. Help them to also be in the moment and not lapse into the sadness or even the angry outbursts that can come from AD's confusion.
Manage the environment: AD can be confusing enough without exacerbating the challenge with a noisy environment. Helping your loved one to engage people in quieter surroundings can help everyone communicate better.
As you navigate through the holidays, appreciate that they may not be as they once were before the intrusion of Alzheimer's, but you are making new memories for you and the rest of the family. With attention to some of these tips, you will find that the new experiences will help everyone's holidays to be their own new memories to cherish. Charlotte Bishop is a Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. Please email your questions to info@creativecaremanagement.com. | 2019-04-20T21:09:29 | http://creativecaremanagement.com/tag/elder-resources/ | [
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Walking With the Great Apes is a comprehensive, engaging 6 part series that explores the current status of and challenges facing the world’s largest remaining primates in the wild.
Walking in the footsteps of Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, young biologist Holly Carroll travels with an experienced film crew to the remote jungles and rainforests of Africa and Indonesia to study these highly intelligent animals in their increasingly threatened natural habitats.
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"Showcases bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans in highly entertaining nuggets. The series is packed with interesting facts, and will inspire viewers to help conserve our majestic cousins." | 2019-04-21T12:46:51 | https://www.videoproject.com/Walking-With-the-Great-Apes.html | [
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Readers may be familiar with the fundamental changes that took place in the Roman world as it converted from paganism to Christianity in the fourth century, and as its emperors sought to govern, through the turbulent times of the fifth to seventh centuries, as Christian rulers.
This is the stuff of late antiquity as it would be recognised in any classics or history university department. It is, as Tom Holland points out in the opening pages of his latest book, a period of fundamental importance for the shape of our world, as it is the era in which religious monotheism, rather than political kingdom, comes to dominate history.
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Yet, echoing what many (mostly non-Muslim) scholars have queried before, Holland points to the historical problem of the evidence: before 800AD, almost 200 years after Mohammed’s death in 632AD, the only “traces we possess” for the development of Islam “are either the barest shreds of shreds, or else the delusory shimmering of mirages”.
Holland examines late antiquity not as an age of decline and fall, but of energy and inventiveness, setting the Arab world and Mohammed’s life in the context of the changing geographies, cultures and priorities of the empires of Rome around the Mediterranean, the Sassanians to the East, and the religious and cultural melting-pot of the “Holy Land”, which connected them. Holland identifies key events, places, ideas and decisions within the Persian and Roman systems which may have impacted upon the Arab world, and, in turn, on the birthplace of Islam in Mecca and Medina.
In so doing, Holland argues for the forging of Islam in the political and military instability and opportunity of a world convulsed by a changing balance of power. The process, he continues, ensured that, by the ninth century, “a version of Islam’s beginnings that gave no scope for anyone to rule as a Deputy of God”, and in turn no room “for acknowledging the momentous role in the forging of Islam by countless others”, had gained acceptance, the continued presence of which, inevitably, makes Holland’s thesis difficult reading for an Islamic audience.
Focusing on the wider context to unpick key moments in history is a classic Holland approach, echoing, for example, his study of the fifth century BC Persian invasion of Greece in Persian Fire (2005), which explored the context and prior history of the Persian and Greek worlds. Such an approach is now in vogue, because it demands that the historian break the often stifling disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally governed the study of worlds which knew no such boundaries.
This is a handsome volume, tackling an important question from a novel perspective, backed by useful notes and written in an accessible and fluid style. But, as I am sure Holland would accept, in part because of the charged nature of the material and issues on which it dwells, and in part because of the vast developments and arenas it attempts to encompass, it is also bound to encounter the full spectrum of critical reaction. | 2019-04-26T00:47:01 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/9174113/In-the-Shadow-of-the-Sword-by-Tom-Holland-review.html | [
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DO WE NEED A COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO OFFER CUSTOMIZED TRAINING? | 2019-04-23T11:59:28 | https://www.whyacommunitycollege.com/sitemap/ | [
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Florida Institute of Technology quarterback Brandon Ziarno.
MELBOURNE, Fla. - Florida Institute of Technology quarterback Brandon Ziarno was arrested Friday on marijuana charges after a routine traffic stop yielded 65.7 grams of pot in small, plastic bags, according to police.
Ziarno, 21, told officers he would tell them anything they wanted to know after he was pulled over for running a stop sign and police smelled marijuana coming from his vehicle on Country Club Road, News 6 partner Florida Today reported.
Police reports state that Ziarno, a Melbourne Central Catholic graduate, confessed to selling marijuana to a "few" of his Panthers teammates.
Ziarno was charged with possession of cannabis over 20 grams and possession of cannabis with intent to sell or deliver.
For the past two seasons, Ziarno played backup to starting quarterback Marquis Cato Robins, who was also arrested on a DUI charge after police say he got drunk and crashed into a Melbourne home.
Cato was then suspended from the team, allowing Ziarno to step in during a playoff game during the team's first postseason run during only its fourth year as a team. Cato was reinstated as starting quarterback for the 2017 season.
Ziarno, heading into his junior year at Florida Tech, passed for 7,000 yards during his high school career at MCC before signing with the Division II Panthers. | 2019-04-26T00:59:33 | https://www.clickorlando.com/sports/florida-tech-quarterback-accused-of-dealing-marijuana | [
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A backcountry snowboarder died today in an avalanche that occurred on the upper snowfield of The Pyramid in the Teton Range, South of JHMR, North of Teton Pass.
The riders’ name has been released but you won’t find it here. The article posted by the Jackson Hole News and Guide is behind a paywall, so I can’t find a corraborating second source of that information at the moment.
“A snowboarder triggered an avalanche that resulted in his death early this afternoon. It occurred on the pyramid path in the southern portion of the Teton Range. Details are still being compiled at this time but initial reports indicate that his tracks lead to a crown with a depth of two feet. Whether it triggered when he was near the crown or when he was further down the slope is unknown. He was carried most of the way down the path, approximately 1800 feet, and buried with the exception of his snowboard which was spotted by Teton County Search and Rescue. Rescuers reached the site via short-haul tactics and removed the victim from the path. A picture of the slide is posted on jhavalanche.org. Our deepest condolences go out the friends and family of the victim.
The site is one of the paths that had natural activity in late December. Of note is that another path, horseshoe bowl, that also slid just before Christmas repeated itself as well today. Horseshoe was triggered by snowmobilers during both of these events. Other recent natural avalanche events have also been reported to the center today.
If avalanche and weather conditions permit tomorrow I will climb the Pyramid and try to learn more about the incident. Stay tuned for updates. | 2019-04-22T07:21:19 | https://tukadika.com/category/backcountry-skiing/avalanche-awareness/ | [
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Who is Ryan Phillippe dating? Many famous women have dated Ryan Phillippe, and this list will give you more details about these lucky ladies. Including Ryan Phillippe’s current girlfriend, past relationships, pictures together, and dating rumors, this comprehensive dating history tells you everything you need to know about Ryan Phillippe’s love life.
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Rihanna and Ryan Phillippe were rumored to be hooking up from December 2011 to 2012. | 2019-04-25T00:17:00 | https://www.ranker.com/list/ryan-phillippe-loves-and-hookups/celebrityhookups?ref=also_ranked&pos=85&a=0&l=839320<ype=n&g=1 | [
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The focus neighborhood chosen for an in-depth analysis of childhood obesity conditions in the Near Northside community is the half mile around Ketelsen Elementary, located on Quitman Street Despite the advantages in its built environment that the Near Northside enjoys, obesity levels are amongst the highest in the county. According to the Texas FitnessGram data, approximately 43% of students at Ketelsen Elementary have high-risk BMI's that place them in overwieght or obese categories.
Only 31% feel very comfortable walking and biking in the neighborhood.
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9% feel comfortable letting a child walk or bike alone in the neigborhood. | 2019-04-24T06:49:21 | http://healthylivingmatters.net/cms/One.aspx?portalId=59296&pageId=5302146 | [
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Think ice cream cone shape. This is another form of rolled cannabis, and the go-to shape of a hand-rolled joint. Most cones include a rolled paper crutch (or nib) for the mouth to wrap around, avoiding the problem of a soggy joint or slipping flower. | 2019-04-20T18:33:22 | https://www.aproperhigh.com/glossary/cone | [
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You need to be 16 years old or over to drive in New Zealand. All drivers must have a current and valid New Zealand driver licence, International Driving Permit, or overseas licence. You can drive on an overseas licence for 12 months. Anyone with a licence that is not in English must get an authorised translation.
After 12 months you need to apply for a New Zealand license. Carry your licence with you at all times when driving.
To drive a motorbike in New Zealand you must get a motorbike licence.
There are three stages to getting a licence. You must pass a test at each stage , that is, a written and two practical driving tests.
Learner licence When learning to drive, you must have a supervisor with you at all times when driving (a person who holds and has held a full licence for at least two years). No passengers unless you are accompanied by a supervisor.
Restricted licence: You can drive on your own between 5am and 10pm. To drive at other times you must have a supervisor with you. No passengers unless you are accompanied by a supervisor.
Full licence: You can drive on your own and take passengers at any time.
In New Zealand we drive on the left-hand side of the road. The Police enforce the driving laws and there are penalties for breaking them such as fines, having your licence taken off you, your vehicle taken off you, or you can be sent to jail.
It is important that you get a copy of the New Zealand Road Code (the Road Code) and learn the road rules, traffic signs and signals for driving here. NZTA also has a factsheet for visitors to New Zealand: factsheet 56 New residents and visitors: driving in New Zealand. You can access both the Road Code and factsheet 56 through the NZTA website, go to: www.nzta.govt.nz. Copies of the Road Code can also be purchased through all larger bookstores.
There are two approved advanced driving courses.
There are four main reasons why people crash or die on New Zealand roads: driving too fast, driving after drinking alcohol, not doing up their safety belts and not giving way at intersections.
The maximum speed on open roads in New Zealand (roads outside of cities and towns) is 100km/h. This is the fastest you are allowed to drive, and you must follow any speed limit signs that instruct you to slow down. The speed limit in towns and cities is 50km/h, unless speed signs tell you that you can go faster. Speed signs are well sign-posted and can change on the same stretch of road. Whatever the posted speed limit, you should always drive to the conditions – drive slower when it’s hard to see or if it’s raining.
The amount of alcohol that drivers under twenty years of age are legally allowed to drink before driving is so small that it is safer not to drink at all. Driving while over the alcohol limit is illegal (an offence), for which there are severe penalties, including having your licence taken off you, or going to jail.
You must always wear your safety belt, whether you are sitting in the front or the back of the vehicle. Drivers and passengers are legally required and responsible for wearing their own safety belts. The driver is also responsible for making sure that children under 15 years of age are wearing their safety belt (children under seven years need to be in an approved child's car seat). There are fines for not wearing safety belts.
It's very important that you know the give way rules (these are in the Road Code, see above for where to get a copy). Otherwise, you could be involved in a serious car accident at an intersection.
If you have a crash while driving and are not badly hurt, you must stop and check to see if anyone else is hurt. If someone is hurt, give first aid or find a phone and dial 111 for emergency services (e.g. an ambulance). You will also need to protect the scene to ensure that other crashes do not occur. You must also tell the Police no later than 24 hours after the crash. If no one is hurt, you'll need to give your name and address (and the name and address of the owner of the vehicle you are driving) as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours after the crash to the owner or driver of any other damaged vehicle and the owner of any damaged property.
If you can’t find these owners, tell the Police as soon as possible and no later than 60 hours after the crash.
Think carefully before buying a car. Unfortunately some international students have had problems with driving or owning cars and some of them have been serious. Owning a car is a big responsibility and can cost a lot. Think about whether you really need one - most New Zealand students find they are too costly. Cars lose value quickly so that when you come to sell you may be disappointed with what money you get for it, or you may not be able to sell it at all.
Once you own a car you need to make sure that it is licensed and has a warrant of fitness (WoF). If your vehicle does not have a current vehicle licence and warrant of fitness you will be fined.
A WoF is a safety check for most cars, vans, utes and many 4WDs. If the vehicle passes, a WoF label is put on the windscreen. You must have the vehicle checked before the expiry date on the label to be issued with a new one. You're not allowed to drive on the road without a WoF label or if your car is not up to WoF standard.
Vehicles first registered anywhere less than six years ago have a WoF check every 12 months; other vehicles have them every six months.
Approved garages and testing stations carry out WoF checks. Ask at your local petrol station for an agent close to where you are staying.
Covers accidents, theft, fire, vandalism and storm damage, plus damage to someone else's vehicle or property. This option costs the most.
Agreed cover as above but you and the insurance company agree on the value of your vehicle (current market or retail value) and the amount to be paid out if your vehicle is damaged beyond repair, when you take out the insurance.
Third party, fire and theft cover against fire and theft on your own car and cover against damage to someone else's vehicle or property.
Third party Covers damage that you cause to another vehicle or another person's property. The cheapest option, but doesn't cover the cost of repairing your vehicle.
If your vehicle is not registered and/or does not have a current WoF, or if you are driving without a valid licence your insurance company will not pay out if you have an accident. | 2019-04-24T16:57:15 | http://ica.ac.nz/international-students/cars-and-driving.html | [
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You only have to place all the ingredients in a jar and let them soak during the night. Drink this miracle drink on an empty stomach in the morning and before you have your meals. Consume the drink until you get your desired results. | 2019-04-24T17:00:51 | https://healthandbeautyqueen.com/fat-burning-drink-will-give-visible-results-4-days/ | [
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Woodburn, OR - A man who killed four people, including a 9-month-old girl, in an Oregon home and was shot and killed by deputies as he was attempting to murder a child on Saturday, police said.
The following Official Record of MARK LEO GREGORY GAGO is being redistributed by Mugshots.com and is protected by constitutional, publishing, and other legal rights. This Official Record was collected on 1/21/2019. | 2019-04-21T22:24:13 | https://mugshots.com/Current-Events/MARK-LEO-GREGORY-GAGO.174530542.html | [
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While working as an interpreter at the Italian embassy in East Berlin for ten years, Augusto Bordato documented the daily triumphs and monotonies of life in the DDR [Eastern Germany]. Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, Contrasto has published a collection of his work entitled DDR, Remembering East Germany. The photographs, taken with a classic Leica film camera, focus on the last two years of the regime: parades, war ruins, beach vacations, lines at the local store, and finally the opening of the Wall. The grainy black and white shots woo us with their familiarity and their humanness, enhanced by a remarkably rich tonal range.
In reality, however, the book shows us the limit of our ability to recuperate the past. In “remembering” the DDR, Bordato reinvents it at the same time, adding substantial text alongside the pictures that intellectualizes and changes the past he once experienced. The text (with captions in Italian and English on each page) prevent us from experiencing the photos as fragments of reality. We see the images as Bordato sees them now, with twenty-five years of hindsight.
Which is, in some ways, a shame, since the photographs are so evocative in their own right. In one photo, statues broken by the Dresden bombings look hauntingly human, entwined in the grass like naked lovers. The tones are superb: the stone bodies are a striking translucent white surrounded by even, gray earth tones and masked in the foreground by blurred shrubs in true black. The description, however, interrupts our reverie with a photographer’s musing: “Like death masks and photographs, casts are also impressions of something real.” We enter the photographer’s perspective as a historical witness and see the broken statues as symbols of the loss and death of an entire era.
Similarly, the last pages of the book offer Bordato’s re-interpretation, rather than pure memories, of the opening of the wall. His photos are vivid, blurred nighttime shots. We are in the crowd, scrambling to get the first peek over to the West. In the middle of this section, however, we find an image that takes us away from the moment. It is the cover photo: an image of a young couple wearing Communist military uniforms in what one assumes is ironic, or perhaps even earnest nostalgia. One would think they were part of the crowd that night of the 9th of November, but in reality the picture is taken months later when uniforms have safely been rendered memorabilia.
In his curation of the past, Bordato collapses historical time. He shows us that history is constantly being rewritten, even when we have the very images before us. Almost a hundred years after Marcel Proust, that great philosopher of memory, wrote “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were,” Bordato’s book shows us again how remembering means changing and how looking back also means recognizing that something has been lost.
Vera Carothers is a freelance writer and educator based in Paris, France. | 2019-04-19T08:20:51 | https://www.lensculture.com/articles/contrasto-books-historical-remembering-looking-back-at-east-germany | [
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The Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement has a long history of supporting land rights legislation in South Australia. Not only do ALRM give assistance to the Pitjantjatjara Council in the formation of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act in its original form, but the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement has consistently made submissions to government supporting the APY Land Rights Act through the various amendments which have taken place over the years.
There is legislation proposed for tomorrow (Tuesday 2 December 2014) in the South Australian Parliament to make major changes to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 (APY Land Rights Act). This Act is the legacy of the Don Dunstan reformist government.
The government has announced draconian changes to the APY Land Rights Act. The effect of these changes is that the Minister will be able to suspend the elected APY Executive Board for ‘any reason, he or she thinks fit’ and appoint an Administrator.
APY strenuously denies claims in The Australian today, 27 November 2014 that Bernard Singer, the Chairman of APY, misused public money and that Lesley Johns, the Interim General Manager, stood to benefit from the sacking of Bruce Deans as General Manager. APY will vigorously defend the proceedings Mr Deans has brought in the Supreme Court. | 2019-04-23T03:55:33 | http://anangu.com.au/index.php/media-releases.html?start=16 | [
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The banks have finally figured out a better way to transfer money, pay bills, etc. Checks are so passe, besides being time-consuming, paper wasting, and often stamp needing. Then there is the whole deposit thingy at the other end. If you use a credit card, there is still the payment of the credit card as well as the fee paid by the vendor. You can now deposit money in someone's account with only an email address or a cell phone number. After the first receipt, payment is essentially immediate.
So, if someone were to get a bill from me, they could pay it by logging into their bank. They'd see something like this from US Bank.
Feel free to send me money anytime.
Well, you say, it can't be that easy. Of course not. The first time you'll have to verify that you are you with a text to your cell phone or an email code. The person receiving must register with their bank (which will send it to Zelle), with their email address and or their cell number. The receiver must also indicate which bank account he wants the money deposited to. Subsequent payments to the same person can be selected from a list of previous payees. After you are registered, payment to your account is immediate.
Both parties are provided with notification of sending and receiving. The last time I was paid this way from a client's office, the payment was in my account when I got home.
There are amount limits, but mine at least were more than any normal bills I pay. I couldn't buy a new car with this though, it would be more than my limit.
If you use a mobile banking app, I'm not recommending that, but if you do, money can be sent from your banking app as well.
A list of participating banks (and two credit unions) is here.
If you log in to your bank, I recommend this as the best way to pay those individuals you owe. Also, organizations receive money for dues and so forth with this if they have an email address they use for online banking. | 2019-04-25T08:41:09 | https://steveshank.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?aid=764 | [
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New Delhi: Civil engineering and construction company Simplex Projects has said it has provided all the information and clarification to CBI officials during search operations in connection with the irregularities in Commonwealth Games related contracts.
The agency officials had on March 10 carried out searches at the company`s premises at Kolkata and here.
"The search was in respect of the work undertaken by the company for renovation of two stadiums at New Delhi, for the purpose of Common Wealth Games and this is a part of ongoing investigation of the several Common Wealth Games related contracts, being handled by CBI," the company said in a filing to BSE.
The Company has provided all the necessary information and clarification to the agency and also extended its fullest co-operation, it added.
Simplex Projects has worked for renovation and upgradation of Shivaji and Talkatora Stadiums in the national capital for the mega sporting event held here between October 3-14 last year here. | 2019-04-26T13:53:00 | https://odishatv.in/nation/simplex-projects-informs-bse-on-cbi-raids-23259 | [
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A group of businesses and doctors from Fukushima prefecture are suing GE in US court over the negligence of their reactor design. The suit claims that GE’s reactor design used at Fukushima Daiichi was reckless and negligent and that GE knew the design could not withstand earthquakes and tsunamis. Deficiencies of the design have been known since the 1970’s.
JAPCO, the quasi governmental company that runs the Tokai nuclear site in Japan and ran the Monju fast breeder reactor has admitted to spending most of their decommissioning fund. This fund, required of all nuclear reactor operators in Japan was intended to assure there was money available to eventually decommission their old nuclear plants. JAPCO admitted to spending most of this fund to build reactors 3 and 4 at the Tsuruga nuclear plant. This has left the company so cash strapped they can’t afford the required upgrades to potentially restart any of their remaining reactors. This is the same company holding the unique distinction of being the only power company in Japan to so grossly neglect safety at a nuclear plant that they will never be allowed to restart that plant.
In another incident Japan’s nuclear regulator discovered that Japan Nuclear Fuels skipped safety checks at the Rokkasho nuclear fuel reprocessing plant for 14 years.
Japan’s nuclear regulator said recently that reactor restarts are not expected to speed up any time soon.
With most of the nuclear reactors in Japan still offline and no major change in the restart process, the future of Japan’s energy mix is now in question. Previous estimates continued to pin their hopes on a sudden restart for many of Japan’s nuclear reactors. With that being less likely it may require some significant changes to official policy.
Two more reactors in Japan will now be permanently shut down. The unit 1 and 2 reactors at the Oi nuclear plant will permanently shut down. Rising costs to attempt to meet new safety standards put in place after the 2011 disaster were cited as the reason.
TEPCO has begun installing defueling equipment on top of unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi. The fuel handling machine and overhead crane were hoisted onto the refueling floor level in anticipation of installation of the final sections of the defueling building.
View of workers and the Fukushima governor on the unit 3 refueling floor inside the defueling building.
1010 contaminated cars at the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site will be scrapped. The cars are a combination of work vehicles and personal vehicles of workers that were discovered to be heavily contaminated. Exactly how these vehicles will be scrapped and disposed of was not mentioned.
Tohoku towns have decided they are not interested in Tokyo’s Olympics push. The national government initially hatched their plan for the Olympics as a PR move to try to wash away the Fukushima disaster. Part of this plan included efforts to place as many activities as possible related to the Olympics in Fukushima and nearby prefectures. So far only 11 of the 127 available towns have applied to participate. At least one cited the need to focus on rebuilding efforts.
The central government has also established a second “rebuilding hub”. This one is to be located in Okuma, just outside the grounds of Fukushima Daiichi. The location is part of the “difficult to return zone” also known as the areas with the highest radioactive fallout from the disaster. Current work includes attempts to decontaminate the area and repair infrastructure. The government eventually plans to try to convince 1500 residents to return. Housing for 1000 workers from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site is to be built in the area. Plans include an effort to resume farming rice and vegetables in this area.
The EU will lift a number of food restrictions put in place after the Fukushima disaster. This includes rice, certain vegetable products and some seafood varieties. These foods would no longer have to prove they are not contaminated or not from the contaminated areas of Japan.
Fukushima evacuees have brought their concerns to the UN Human Rights Council. They cite the efforts to force evacuees to return to contaminated home towns as a violation of their human rights.
The family of a dialysis patient who died after delayed treatment due to the nuclear disaster has sued TEPCO. There have been other lawsuits due to death related to the nuclear disaster. This is the first specifically involving a dialysis patient. | 2019-04-25T06:36:39 | http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=16497 | [
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Webinars are online video presentations. You can register for an upcoming webinar or watch the recorded webinars any time at your convenience. We add multiple webinars each month, so check back often.
Finally, a sensible guide for growing cattleyas! | 2019-04-22T16:21:40 | http://www.aos.org/orchids/webinars.aspx | [
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One of the many changes that the new Regulation will deliver when it comes into force on 25 May 2018 is a new statutory obligation on data security that data processors must observe above and beyond contractual duties agreed with data controller customers.
Under current EU data protection rules service providers that process personal data on behalf of other businesses cannot be held directly liable to individuals for a breach of data security. If data processors are at fault for data breaches then it is the data controller who contracted with them who is on the hook for any non-compliance with data protection laws, although the data processor could be liable to the data controller under their contract.
The Regulation addresses this anomaly but makes a distinction between the maximum fine data protection authorities will be able to levy against data controllers compared to data processors for failings on data security.
The relevant provisions on data security are contained under Articles 5 and 32 of the Regulation.
Article 5 sets out basic rules on personal data processing which only apply to data controllers, considered to be fundamental to data protection. One of those rules requires data controllers to ensure that personal data is "processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures".
According to the Article 83 provisions of the Regulation on administrative fines, where data controllers breach that Article 5 requirement they can be served with the highest possible fine that data protection authorities will be able to issue under the reformed framework.
In contrast if data processors breach their statutory data security obligations, set out under Article 32, which requires them to "implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk" of their personal data processing, then the most they could be fined is up to €10m or 2% of global annual turnover.
Data controllers are also subject to the Article 32 obligations. It therefore appears open to national data protection authorities to fine data controllers for any data security failings under Article 5 or Article 32. Their choice in those circumstances would impact on the severity of the fines they could issue.
Whether security measures are appropriate in each instance will depend on "the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons", according to the Regulation.
Beyond the imposition of administrative fines for data security breaches, the Regulation will also introduce an updated right for data subjects to claim com pensation for damages they suffer from such incidents. A data controller or data processor could be sued for compensation as well as being exposed to the administrative fines – being fined will not shield it from compensation claims, and vice versa.
The revised right will allow data subjects to pursue either data controllers or data processors for all of the compensation owed to them for the damage they have suffered from a data breach, although a processor will only be liable for damage caused by processing where it has not complied with any part of the Regulation that applies to them or if it has "acted outside or contrary to lawful instructions of the controller".
Data controllers pursued for damages will be able to claim back all or some of the money they pay out from their data processor if the data processor was in fact responsible, wholly or in part, for the breach. Equally, data processors will have the same right to claim back money from data controllers, or indeed other data processors involved, whose fault caused or contributed to the damage, if the data subject pursues the data processor for the full compensation pay-out.
As a result of the changes, data processors and controllers will both want to negotiate the scope of their obligations, liabilities and indemnities accordingly.
Dr Kuan Hon is a data protection law expert at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com. | 2019-04-19T20:26:29 | https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2016/may/gdpr-potential-fines-for-data-security-breaches-more-severe-for-data-controllers-than-processors-says-expert/ | [
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I love how Claudy writes her regency romances. They are light and fun with love and passion and a bit of mystery and suspense. You are easily pulled into the story.
This book had it all sweet romance, passion filled love making, mystery and suspense that will keep you turning the pages to see what happens next.
Serena, a beautiful young lady who is happy with her life. She takes care of her uncle and he wants her to find happiness and marry but she is holding out for a love match. She knows that none of the men she has met will do. Well that is until she meets Lord Pendleton.
Lord Pendleton has come to save his nephew from a marriage to a woman who he thinks is only after his title and money. | 2019-04-20T03:12:39 | https://romancenovelreview.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/review-serena-by-claudy-conn/?shared=email&msg=fail | [
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The area treated may show redness and swelling and that the colour looks dark and intense – this is normal.
Additional treatments cannot be undertaken until the area has completely healed. A 4/6 week healing time is required before any more work can be done.
Once the area has healed completely, approximately one week, consider using a waterproof total sunblock when going out in the sun to stop the color fading.
Strong chemicals or glycolic acid/peels of any kind may cause the pigment to lighten.
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Laser /Pulsed Light – Laser or pulsed light hair removal or skin rejuvenation treatments can cause colour change – it is important to advise the therapist that you have had Microblading procedure as this cannot be rectified with another Microblading procedure.
Prior to your permanent cosmetic enhancement think about the look that you wish to achieve. As experts in the field of color analysis and makeovers, we ensure that the correct colors and styles are chosen for you, however you are part of the decision-making process.
Since delicate skin or sensitive areas may be swollen or red, it is advised not to make social plans on the day of your enhancement. | 2019-04-26T16:55:11 | https://www.maxxbeauty.co.uk/before-and-after-the-treatment/ | [
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With the release of FFXIV patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender, many players complain about its content. I want to give some suggestions about this new content for FFXIV.
To people who complain about the same-y content, I think that the main idea is that the "1 raid, 1 primal, 2 dungeons per patch" is the base of the patch, and the other things that come with the patch are the things they are trying to do different. Do take note that in the course of 3 major patches, and 3 mini patches, the team has implemented Lord of Verminion, the Diadem, the Palace of the Dead, the Aquapolis, and the Feast. That is a lot of content, especially comparing FFXIV to its close competitor, World of Warcraft.
1. Introduce a new post-expansion zone where which people can do daily quests and goals (think of Isle of Thunder/Timeless Isle/Tanaan Jungle in WoW). Maybe reintroduce the Diadem as a static, non-instanced zone with a daily quest hub that offers crafting rewards?
2. They can also try mixing up gameplay by adding more ways to play the game other than battle or trading quests. For example, think of the Beast Tribe quests where you ride Sanuwas or Kognamatos, but used to attack Garlean structures, or something similar.
3. Introduce a server-wide goal or effort for people to word towards, similar to the Gates of Ahn' Qiraj event back in Vanilla WoW, or the Isle of Thunder Progression in Mists. Not only will this foster server cooperation, but it can encourage people to pick up or do things they have not done in a long time.
I have a couple of other suggestions in mind (i.e. A midcore raiding difficulty level), but specifically for new ideas, I think that's a good set of ideas to start in.
If you want to buy cheap FFXIV Gil, FFXIVGilBuy is your good choice with instant delivery and lowest price! | 2019-04-21T06:35:10 | https://www.ffxivgilbuy.com/news/suggests-and-comments-about-ffxiv-patch-34-soul-surrender.html | [
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The Bobro Engineering LowRider sights are designed from the start to be an extremely low profile set of BUIS for a specific purpose. Many Short Barreled Rifle owners have run into an issue with figuring out how to mount a set of BUIS on the upper and still fit their needed Lights, Lasers and Optics. The idea was to make it so that the Rear Sight was so low profile that there was almost no possible way it could interfere with optics and the Front Sight could easily be mounted under the front arm of the optic mount. This keeps them out of the way, but can still be used in the even the primary optic has a failure. Even though these sights were designed to fill a specific need, they can Mfg: Bobro Engineering. | 2019-04-24T06:36:32 | http://shoppingoutlet.org/rifle-parts/bobro-engineering-lowrider-buis-sights/ | [
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A top pain-relief specialist at Yale Medicine busts the myths around epidural anesthesia.
Ferne Braveman, MD, explains the options available for women for anesthesia during childbirth.
An epidural allows pain-blocking medication to be delivered to a woman in labor via a catheter inserted in the lower back.
An estimated 60 percent of American women choose an epidural for pain relief during childbirth.
With a low dose epidural, women can still get up and walk around during labor.
Yale Medicine is the only facility in the state to offer around-the-clock obstetrical anesthesia service supervised by anesthesiologists with advanced training in obstetrical care.
An epidural delivers less medication into the patient’s bloodstream than intravenous medications or nitrous oxide, and very little of it reaches the baby.
When it comes to childbirth, many women understandably worry about pain. Some have heard frightening accounts from friends and family members of deliveries that, with each retelling, seem to lengthen by hours. Others have phobias about needles and are anxious about receiving an epidural, yet have qualms about going through labor without one.
Ferne Braveman, MD, division chief of anesthesiology at Yale Medicine and professor of anesthesiology and of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, is familiar with those concerns.
Dr. Braveman says her job is to make sure women—who today are more informed and empowered when it comes to deciding what works best for them—understand their options, including those that do not involve medications. More often than not, epidural pain relief is part of their childbirth experience.
To explore the options for anesthesia in childbirth, click here.
What is an epidural, anyway?
About 60 percent of American women receive an epidural for pain relief during childbirth. During the procedure, an anesthesiologist inserts a needle and a tiny catheter into a woman’s lower back. The catheter delivers pain-blocking medication. Women begin to feel relief “within four contractions, or 10 to 12 minutes, with peak effect after 15 minutes,” Dr. Braveman says.
The epidural infusion contains an anesthetic and a narcotic. These block pain signals in the lower part of the body. With a low dose, women can get up and walk around.
I always tell women to not listen to their mother or sister or friend. No one ever tells you about their wonderful birthing experience.
Another approach is a two-step procedure called a walking epidural. The epidural needle is placed in the same fashion as with a traditional epidural. Then the spinal needle for the walking epidural is advanced into the fluid surrounding the spinal cord and a small dose of medication is administered. The spinal needle is removed and the epidural catheter is placed in the epidural space, as with a traditional epidural. This approach delivers pain relief “almost instantaneously,” Dr. Braveman says.
Lori Vogt, RN, (left to right) Paula Trigo Blanco, RN, and Ferne Braveman, MD, work as a team to recommend pain-relief options to women in labor.
For high-risk deliveries, Dr. Braveman or one of her team members meets with patients before childbirth. “We come up with a plan and discuss it with the obstetrical team so that we are all on the same page when the woman comes into the hospital,” she says.
Whether or not the delivery is high risk, epidurals remain a source of concern for many pregnant women. This is understandable, given the importance of any medical decision associated with labor and childbirth.
In meeting with expectant mothers, Dr. Braveman says she frequently encounters a number of myths, including the widespread (but misguided) belief that an epidural can cause paralysis. She assures women that will not happen, and that the biggest complication might be a headache. “And if they do get a headache, we can treat it and manage it,” she says.
One widespread belief is that the epidural contains medicine that is a risk to the baby’s health. That is not true. An epidural actually delivers less medication into a laboring woman's bloodstream than intravenous medications or nitrous oxide, and very little of it reaches the baby, says Dr. Braveman.
Another common myth is that an epidural will greatly increase the labor time because it makes women feel numb and therefore unable to recognize the need to push.
An epidural does increase labor time by about eight minutes, on average. But Dr. Braveman says that is a marginal amount, “especially if you are talking over the course of eight hours.” Today’s epidurals, she says, use a very diluted analgesic combination of a local anesthetic and low-dose narcotic.
Along with the belief that an epidural increases the amount of time it takes to deliver a baby, many women wrongly believe that having an epidural makes them more likely to have a cesarean section.
That is not true, Dr. Braveman says. “Poorly designed retrospective studies in the past suggested a large number of patients going to cesarean sections had had epidurals, but well-designed studies did not support this,” she says.
Nurse Angelique Garay prepares for another delivery in the anesthesia workroom.
An epidural is not for everyone and is not the only choice when it comes to relieving pain, Dr. Braveman says. Many women find it relieves discomfort to sit on a birthing ball, or take a dip in a bathtub, or practice breathing and relaxation exercises they learned in childbirth classes.
Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, is another option for pain relief in labor, one many people are not aware of. It fell out of fashion as a childbirth aid years ago for various reasons, including environmental concerns.
“But now they have developed a delivery system where the patient breathes back into the machine,” Dr. Braveman says. She says nitrous oxide can serve as a bridge to an epidural for women who don’t want one early in labor. And for a woman delivering her second or third baby, nitrous oxide might be all that she needs.
Women giving birth for the first time (68.1 percent) are more likely to receive regional anesthesia than those delivering subsequent children (57.3 percent), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As much as women need to be prepared for childbirth and have choices, Dr. Braveman says she often reminds them that the outcome—a healthy baby and healthy mother—matters most.
At Yale Medicine, Dr. Braveman says, the focus is on the patient. “That is reflected in our amazing team of doctors, nurses and anesthesiologists who work to make the healthy outcome happen,” she says. | 2019-04-19T23:04:40 | https://cdn1.yalemedicine.org/stories/pain-relief-in-childbirth/ | [
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Constant reminders that African Americans were inferior to white people marked towns and cities in the first half of the 20th century. Signs labeled “colored,” and “white” were highly visible by design, meant to constrict freedom based on the color of one’s skin. Heroically, many African American men and women refused to accept these labels, determined to prove their intelligence, strength, and fortitude by fighting for their right to fight. Ultimately, their battle focused on civil rights during and after World War II.
Most people are familiar with the Tuskegee Airmen. They are legendary.
In the Museum’s exhibit Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences During WWII, the exhibit centerpiece focuses on the Tuskegee Airmen, the famous Red Tails pilots whose incredible war exploits became a symbol of African-American participation in World War II. The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance opened the exhibit on September 7, 2017. Speakers included former Tuskegee Airmen Flight Officer Robert T. McDaniel, Mrs. Erma Bonner-Platte, widow of Tuskegee Airmen instructor Claude Platte Jr., and Dr. J. Todd Moye, Professor of History at the University of North Texas.
Dr. Moye moderated a panel between McDaniel and Bonner-Platte which he began by providing historical background on the discrimination African Americans faced when attempting to enlist and/or serve in the armed forces.
Segregation, upheld by the landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), along with Jim Crow laws, restricted the civil liberties of African Americans in every sector of society, including the military. African Americans were rejected from serving in the Army Air Services during World War I. This racial discrimination fueled the NAACP and others to work for change in military policies.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential decree that allowed African Americans to join the war effort during World War II. After the decree, the U.S. Army Air Corps trained a limited number of black pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama. The 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group became known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
Former Tuskegee Airmen Flight Officer Robert T. McDaniel attended I.M. Terrell High School in Texas and was drafted into the armed services in 1943. He was later accepted into the U.S. Army Air Corps.
McDaniel’s drive, intelligence, and skills led him to surpass the benchmarks for acceptance into the air force as established by the U.S. War Department. McDaniel and Bonner-Platte’s husband, Claude Platte Jr., were two of the 922 pilots trained in Tuskegee, Alabama between 1941 and 1946.
The Tuskegee Airmen proved themselves to be some of the best pilots in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Their first-rate skills and abilities earned them the respect of other bomber crews who often requested them as escorts. The Tuskegee Airmen had a much better record than bombers flown by white pilots.
The accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen showed the world that African Americans deserved more recognition and respect than they had received at home. The end of the war reinvigorated their desire for equality and catalyzed the Civil Rights Movement.
During the exhibit opening, a member of the audience asked McDaniel and Bonner-Platte what messages they might have for the next generation of students regarding their experiences during World War II.
“I want young people to know that they can do anything that any other person can do, with no exceptions, and that they shouldn’t let anyone discourage them from any occupation that they desire to pursue,” said McDaniel.
Bonner-Platte answered the question by recalling a story her husband had repeated many times. When he was a young boy, Platte looked in the air and saw an object flying overhead. He ran up to his father and asked what it was. His father explained it was an airplane, and the man he saw in it was a called a pilot. Platte knew immediately that that’s what he wanted to be when he grew up.
Platte’s father encouraged his son’s passion for aviation by taking his family to Meacham field to watch the planes land and take off. Platte later found himself in Tuskegee in 1939 and joined the Tuskegee Airmen.
The tenacity and determination these men exhibited during a time of segregation, discrimination, and racial inequality serve as an incredible example of perseverance and inspiration for all ages. | 2019-04-22T00:00:32 | https://upstanderconnection.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/the-tuskegee-airmen/ | [
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Then I saw heaven opened and a white horse stood there; and the One Who rides on the horse was Named 'Faithful and True' - the One Who justly punishes and makes war. His eyes were like flames, and on His head were many crowns.
Then I saw an angel who in the sunshine stood, shouting loudly to the birds, 'Come! Gather together for the supper of the Great Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA! Come and eat the flesh of kings, and captains, and great generals; of horses and riders; and of all humanity, both great and small, slave and free.'"
Then I saw the evil creature gathering the governments of earth and their armies to fight against the One riding on the horse and His army. And the evil creature was captured, and with him the false prophet, who could do mighty miracles when the evil creature was present - miracles which deceived all who had accepted the evil creature's mark, and who worshiped his statue.
Both of them - the evil creature and his false prophet - were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. And their entire army was killed with sharp sword in the mouth of the One riding the white horse, and all the birds of heaven were gorged with their flesh."
"Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key to the bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand. He seized the dragon - that old serpent, ha-satán - and bound him in chains for 1,000 years, and threw him into the bottomless pit, which he then shut and locked, so that he could not fool the nations any more until the thousand years were finished. Afterwards he would be released again for a little while.
Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those who had been given the right to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA, for proclaiming the Words of YÁOHU UL, and who had not worshiped the creature or his statue, nor accepted his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They had come to life again and now they reigned with Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA for a thousand years.
This is the First Resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended). Blessed and holy are those who share in the First Resurrection. For them the Second Death holds no terrors, for they will be priests of YÁOHU UL and of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
When the thousand years end, ha-satán will be let out of his prison. He will go out to deceive the nations of the world and gather them together, with Gog and Magog, for battle - a mighty host, numberless as sand along the shore. They will go up to the broad plain of the earth and surround YÁOHU UL's people and the beloved City of Jerusalem on every side.
But fire from YÁOHU UL in heaven will flash down on the attacking armies and consume them. Then ha-satán (satir) who had betrayed them will again be thrown into the lake of fire burning with sulfur where the creature and false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever."
And I saw a great white Throne and the One Who sat upon it, from Whose face the earth and sky fled away, but they found no place to hide. I saw the dead, great and small, on their feet before YÁOHU UL; and The Books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to the things written in The Books, each according to the deeds he had done.
The oceans surrendered the bodies buried in them; and the earth and the underworld gave up the dead in them. And death and hell were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the Second Death - the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found recorded in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
Then I saw a new earth (with no oceans!) and a new sky, for the present earth and sky had disappeared. And I Yaokanam (John), saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down from YÁOHU UL out of heaven. It was a glorious sight, beautiful as a bride at her wedding!
And then He said to me, 'Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true: It is finished! I am the Alef and the Tav - the Beginning and the End.
I will give to the thirsty the springs of the Water of Life - as a gift! Everyone who conquers will inherit all these blessings, and I will be his UL and he will be My child.
But cowards who turn back from following Me, and those who are unfaithful to Me, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those conversing with demons, and idol worshipers and all liars - their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."
"Then one of the seven angels, who had emptied the flasks containing the seven last plagues, came and said to me, 'Come with Me and I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.
In a vision He took me to a towering mountain peak and from there I watched that wondrous City, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of the skies from YÁOHU UL. It was filled with the glory of YÁOHU UL, and flashed and glowed like a precious gem, crystal clear like jasper. Its walls were broad and high, with twelve gates guarded by twelve angels. And the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were written on the gates. There were three gates on each side - north, south, east, and west.
The walls had twelve foundations stones, and on them were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The angel held in his hand a golden measuring stick to measure the City and its gates and walls. When he measured it, he found it was a square as wide as it was long; in fact it was in the form of a cube, for its height was exactly the same as its other dimensions - 1,500 miles each way. Then he measured the thickness of the walls and found them to be 216 feet across (the angel called out these measurements to me, using common unit).
The twelve gates were made of pearls - each gate from a single pearl! And the main street was pure, transparent gold, like glass."
"No temple could be seen in the City, for YÁOHU UL Gavoha and the Lamb are worshiped in it everywhere. And the City has no need of sun or moon to light it, for the glory of YÁOHU UL and the Lamb illuminate it. Its light will light the nations of the earth, and the rulers of the world will come and bring their glory to it. Its gates never close; they stay open all day long - and there is no night!
And the glory and honor of all the nations shall be brought into it. Nothing evil will be permitted in it - no one immoral or dishonest - but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
And he pointed out to me a river of pure Water of Life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of YÁOHU UL and the Lamb, coursing down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew Trees of Life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month; the leaves were used for healing the nations.
There shall be nothing in the City which is evil; for the throne of YÁOHU UL and of the Lamb will be there, and His servants will worship Him. And they shall see His face; and His Name shall be written on their foreheads. And there will be no night there - no need for lamps or sun - for Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA will be their Light; and they shall reign forever and ever.
"I, Yaokanam, saw and heard all these things, and fell down to worship the angel who showed them to me; but again he said, 'No, don't do anything like that. I, too, am a servant of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA as you are, and just like your brothers the prophets are, as well as all those who heed the truth stated in this Book. Worship YÁOHU UL alone.'"
Then he advised me, 'Do not seal up what you have written, for the time of fulfillment is near. And when that time comes, all doing wrong will do it more and more; the vile will become more vile; upright men will be better; those who are holy will continue on to greater holiness.
Blessed forever are all who are washing their robes, to have the right to enter in through the gates of the City, and to eat the fruit from the Tree of Life.
Outside the City are those who have departed away from YÁOHU UL, and the sorcerers and the immoral and murderers and idolaters, and all who love to lie, and do so.
I, Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA, have sent My angel to you to tell the Congregations all these matters. I am both David's Root and his Offspring. I am the bright Morning Heavenly Light.
The 'RÚKHA' and the bride say, 'Come.' Let each one who hears them say the same, 'Come.' Let the thirsty one come - anyone who wants to; let him come and drink the Water of Life freely.
And I solemnly declare to everyone who reads this book: If anyone adds anything to what is written here, YÁOHU UL shall add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone subtracts any part of these prophecies, YÁOHU UL shall take away his share in the Tree of Life, and in the Holy City just described.
The grace of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY be with you all, am-nám!"
All this is given to you in the Name of YAOHÚSHUA the Messiah, am-nám!
We believe that, by the grace and mercy of YÁOHU UL, the 'RÚKHA-YAOHÚSHUA' has been teaching all of you, leading you into all truth, reminding you of the words of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA, is revealing Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA and His eternal truths now to each one of you, and that YÁOHU UL is always watching over His words to perform them.
We also believe that the 'RÚKHA-YAOHÚSHUA' is the One Who is giving life and powerful oiling to YÁOHU UL's words, and He's now convicting your hearts as regards sin, righteousness and judgment, as we bind all of you to the full submission to Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, now and forever, ol Shúam YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, and we all say, am-nám!
And we now loose you from all the powers of ha-satán and all his religious wicked spirits, evil spirits of confusion, all lying spirits, and all seducing spirits and we stop, rebuke and renounce all their wicked influences, deceptions, power and control over your whole person and we now set you free from all the powers of all evil spirits right now!
We also now bind you to full and immediate submission to Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY now and for always! Whatever we loose on earth is loosed in heaven, and whatever we bind on earth is bound in heaven! Al Shúam YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, and we all agree, am-nám!
Remember, it was Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA Who died for your sins, and not religion. Religion is not the Savior. YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY is the Savior Who is willing and able to help, deliver, heal, enrich and save you!
For the weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world; on the contrary, they are so powerful, through YÁOHU UL, to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of YÁOHU UL, and we now take captive every thought to make it submissive to Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA.
And we now overcome ha-satán by the 'DAM' (blood) of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY and by the words of our testimony, and as we resist ha-satán, we win!
Thanks be to YÁOHU UL GABOR (the Valiant Warrior) Who always guarantees that we triumph in Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, and truly we are greater than conquerors! And we do not allow ha-satán to steal in any manner the words of YÁOHU UL sown in our hearts now and forever!
Given to you in true love and deep humility, ol Shúam YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, am-nám! | 2019-04-21T18:04:55 | http://shell.lava.net/ohol_yaohushua/world.html | [
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Roland Barthes, the French intellectual and semiotician, introduced three levels of mythic language: the denotative level, the connotative or symbolic level, and the ideological level. He believed that the development of mythology, where some particular thing that exists in a specific cultural context develops into something timeless and general, can also be found in pop culture and its products. He called this process of transformation “Mythicization”. By applying this perspective to one of the advertisements of Baedal Minjok, we can see that the brand strategy of Baedal Minjok can be laid out in Barthes’ three different levels of mythic language. Additionally, we will examine how the messages found in the advertisement supports the mythicization of the brand.
Mythicization is very appealing to modern brands. As names like Nike and Hermes, or the Starbucks mermaid symbol show, brands are trying to build a strong association through storytelling or unique imagery in order to become a part of culture, rather than just a product. In the 1960s, Barthes also paid a special attention to advertisements and tried to decode their cultural meanings embedded in deeper level. In “Rhetoric of the image”, he deconstructed an advertisement into linguistic and iconic messages and then uncovered the symbolic meaning (connotative level) under the surface meaning (denotative level). While the fact that Barthes applied these two levels of mythology analysis to advertisements contributes deeply to our understanding of the pop culture, they are not enough when trying to understand the strategies of contemporary brands and their mythicization. Brands now communicate more diverse channels in a bigger and global market. In this highly competitive environment, one well- written ad copy or a famous good-looking model won’t guarantee the same level of cultural impact that Barthes may have witnessed in the past. The messages of brands these days try to permeate our culture in a deeper, more diverse way. That is where the ideological level, the final level that Barthes introduced in the language of mythicization, kicks in. Ideologies are “the belief system within people’s collective conscious” (Dobson “Mythology and Ideology”). The ideological messages in myths and fairytales have a pedagogical function as they pass values and old wisdom on to the listener. The ideological messages of brands help them to stay in people’s awareness and affect their attitudes toward a brand’s product. For example, seeing at the words “Innovative”, “Simple” or “Perfection” many people may instantly think of the brand Apple, and Coca-Cola will be associated with the words such as “Happiness” or “Fun”. In other words, successful brands in contemporary culture contain ideological messages and succeed in making strong associations with those messages in the cultural context.
Korean’s most successful food delivery service, “배달의 민족 (Baedal Minjok, meaning the Nation of Delivery)” is often seen as a modern success story in the Korean business world due to its fast growth. Even though ordering food delivery from home, office, or even from parks or public outdoor places during any time of the day has been a big part of food culture in Korea for a long time, Baedal Minjok, was the first startup in Korea that came up with the idea of acting as a delivery service that connects customers and restaurants (like Grubhub or Seamless in the US) and now is regarded as a symbol of Korean food culture. One piece of evidence for the brand’s impact is the cultural phenomenon of other companies and individuals copying or parodying the brand’s imagery, visual style, and way of storytelling. What makes this brand even more worth investigating for our analysis is its global expansion. Despite of its strong base in localized service and the Korean culture, the company was invested by global investment companies such as Goldman Sachs and is actively expanding to the global market. Just like good stories can be shared and understood across borders and cultures and become a myth over time, brands, like a modern myth, can show us deep understanding of culture and human communications.
The image above shows the advertisement that we will analyze. The linguistic messages shown in the ad are the ad copy: the phrase written in Korean on the left side, “우리가 어떤 민족 입니까” (What kind of nation are we?) and the brand name: the black colored letters written on the metal container, “배달의 민족” (Baedal Minjok — the Nation of Delivery).
Baedal Minjok, the brand name, literally means the nation of delivery. By putting Baedal (Delivery) in the name, it intuitively informs people that the brand is related to a delivery service. If one tries to understand the deeper meaning and origin of the brand name, he or she reaches the connotative level, where contextual interpretation is involved. Putting the word “delivery” and “nation” together implies that the business is targeting the whole nation and it is fully dedicated to the delivery service. Originally, however, Baedal Minjok has been familiar to Korean people in a different meaning — the phrase is originally a colloquial expression for saying the “Korean people” in a sophisticated way (“Baedal” is also the name of the mythic founder of Korea, so Baedal Minjok can be read as Baedal’s Nation). By using a familiar expression as the brand name, the brand achieves not only a sense of humor but also a strong feeling of nationalism. In Korean society, where a single race speaking one language has been regarded as a virtue for many decades, the sense of community and nationalism prevails in people’s collective conscious. This feeling of nationalism is what the brand embraces at the ideological level. The ad copy is a question that leads to an answer, the brand name. It may be seen as a simple format on the denotative level, but on the connotative level, this format puts the emphasis on the brand name and its dual meaning. Moreover, by using the subject ‘we’ and the concept of ‘nation’ in the phrase, it ideologically plays to the patriotism and the connectedness of the viewers.
➊ The scene represents a man riding a horse to deliver food to his customer. The background image is a parody work of a historical mural of Goguryeo Tombs, one of Korea’s UNESCO cultural heritage sites (see Figure 7). The original mural describes the hunting scene of the former ancient kingdom, Goguryeo, where people were known for skillful horse riding and hunting, bravery, and quick in action. This historical background is connected to the word “nation” shown in both linguistic elements mentioned earlier. This historical context of the brand name not only emphasizes its sincerity in achieving high quality of service in the connotative level, but also identifies the brand image with the agility and energy of the ancient culture, representing the ideological level.
➋ Comparing the Baedal Minjok advertisement and the Goguryeo’s mural art painting above, the biggest difference is what the rider is holding in his hands. The bow in Goguryeo culture symbolizes their agility and accuracy that were known for the hunting skills. The ad, through the parody process, replaced the bow to the metal food delivery container (see Figure 6). The metal food delivery container is considered as one of the most symbolic items in the Korean contemporary food culture. Just like a beer mug indicates beer, the color, shape and the size of the metal container in the image is an icon in Korean culture for the delivery food. By putting the brand name “Baedal Minjok” on this iconic metal container image, the ad not only clearly indicates the business type of the company (connotative level) but also symbolizes itself as a part of Korean food culture at the ideological level.
➌ The man who is playing the delivery horseman in this image is the Korean film actor, Seungyong Ryu. He is known for his charismatic and heroic character in many successful Korean films. Therefore, his presence in the ad connoted the message that his personal brand endorses Baedal Minjok. Given the fact that Baedal Minjok was from a small, new startup with comical advertisements, the juxtaposition of a serious actor in a comical pose added additional interest to the ad.
➍ The copy functions not only for the linguistic message but also for the iconic message due to its visual aspect: the font type. The font used in the copy, Hanna, was created for Baedal Minjok. Because of the high attention of the public, the company even shared the font publicly so that anybody could download and use it. The style is chiseled with square shapes but gives a fun impression as it accentuates curves in the letters. The unique look and feel of neatness but fun at the same time support the connoted message of the brand: we are new and fun but our business is reliable. At a deeper level, the font also contains a strong ideological message. Inspired by “the hand-drawing letters used in educational propaganda posters for children in Korean elementary schools” (Kim), the font type was designed to bring a prompt attention from the viewers, like a propaganda, but in a friendly way similar to the educational posters do for young kids (See Figure 7). Due to this motif, the overall advertisement resembles the traditional propaganda posters which encourage patriotism, ideal national characteristics, and community spirit.
Even though these four main elements are “discontinuous and not linear” (Lanir), they are coherently tied to certain messages. On the connotative level, all the elements imply the idea that Baedal Minjok provides fast, accurate and friendly nation-wide food delivery service that can satisfy all the country. While this message can be interpreted as a marketing message for introducing the new business, the ideological level is closer to the collective conscious, especially tied to Korean culture. Each element — the historical motif of the overall image, the symbolic metal delivery food container, the nationally popular actor, and the unique font inspired by Korean education — is linked to the patriotism and the celebration of “Koreanness”.
The coded messages discovered in this image of “What kind of Nation are We?” campaign are continuously reproduced in their further Baedal Minjok campaigns. For example, they released a series of print ads which only feature the actor, the font, and their witty copy (See Figure 8). Furthermore, applying another parody work in the movie poster format, the brand continues to use the font, the actor and the motif of artistic content (with the movie poster replacing the historical painting on the artistic vehicle).
These variations are diverse in format and channels but consistent in messages. In other words, for the brand the ad we analyzed in this paper and its messages became a new doxa, “the rules and regulations of a culture,” (Dobson “Fairytales: From History to Theory.”) and mythicize the brand by applying the their own doxa to their further communications.
With the elaborately executed brand strategy demonstrated in the advertisement we analyzed, Baedal Minjok could be in Korean people’s awareness not only as a high quality food delivery service brand but also as a symbol of Korean food culture that celebrates Koreanness. As a result, Korean people think of Baedal Minjok when they see the words like “national” “connectedness” or “love for Korea” — even though it’s not a national enterprise. When a brand can be remembered in a cultural context beyond its product and its usage, it is mythicized and passes the ideology on to the next generation as a modern myth.
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Lanir, Lesley. “Images and Image Rhetoric Per Roland Barthes: Semiotics at Play.” Web log post. Decoded Science. Decoded Science, 10 Dec. 2012. Web. 03 Aug. 2015. | 2019-04-22T19:10:09 | https://medium.com/compass-rose/brand-mythicization-korean-food-delivery-service-baedal-minjok-applying-roland-barthes-b7ef1841edb3?source=---------1------------------ | [
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If there is one thing I would recommend us to change or improve on this year it’s the battles we choose to fight. We probably don’t realise this but sometimes we pay so much attention to things that really do not add value to our lives. And this is exactly why I want us to focus on battles that are worth fighting, battles that one can someday look back on and think ‘wow I’m a warrior’.
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Instead of getting involved with everything, you save your time only for the important situations, the ones that will give you the best payoff, and the ones where there is a good chance of success. As humans, we also need to remember that we have limited time and energy on Earth and that is why we need to conserve our resources for the things that matter.
It’s all about winning the big war. In life, you are going to face countless problems. Do you want to spend your life battling petty problems that do not make a difference in the long run? Or do you want to battle the big rocks, like carving out your dream career, building your ideal relationship, being financially free, and living the life of your dreams? You need to choose your battles and focus on the big rocks to win the big war of life.
Let’s choose our battles wisely, battles that will help us become better versions of ourselves and battles that will help us put bread on the table. Not every battle is worth fighting. | 2019-04-19T16:31:21 | https://thepatriot.com.na/index.php/2018/01/19/choose-your-2018-battles-wisely/ | [
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My father, when he was young, was interested in becoming a musician. His father (my grandad) said no. So he became an engineer instead, but his deep love and longing of music never waned. My mom also, was on her way to becoming a piano virtuoso, but had to change course due to life and work circumstance. This was all before I was born. Right before my first birthday, my father passed away from liver cancer at the age of 49. It was his last wish that my mom and I go to New York for me to live, go to school and thrive.
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That, my friends, I cannot say :) ...But, the second most fun thing I've ever done is play on a float raft to thousands in a New York City parade.
I'd love to be in a cereal commercial. Lol. I don't know why, but it's been a silly dream of mine. Or a makeup commercial. Maybe that's more suitable. I'd love to go on an arena tour with another artist. I sang the National Anthem to 30,000 people at Staples Center and it was quite a rush. I can't imagine what singing my own songs to that many people - who know the words - might feel like. | 2019-04-19T10:42:29 | http://www.newyorkstaroftheday.com/saniy/ | [
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A man and a woman who were found in possession of vast quantities of substances commonly used in the production of Class A drugs have today (23 May 2017) been jailed at Carlisle Crown Court.
Alex Hardie, 53, of Bents Road, Baillieston, Glasgow was jailed for six years and eight months. Amanda Thomson, 37, of Shettleston Road, Glasgow, received a four-year jail sentence.
The court heard how Cumbria Constabulary officers stopped a BMW in Carlisle being driven by Hardie, with Thomson as a passenger.
Hardie claimed the pair had been to Blackpool but his behaviour caused officers to become suspicious and they searched the car. The officers found approximately 50kg of Benzocaine – a drug commonly used as a cocaine bulking agent by drug suppliers. They also found a further 50kg of a substance which was a mixture of caffeine and paracetamol – substances commonly used as heroin bulking agents.
The substances were found inside a number of barrels and bags being transported in the car.
The amounts of Benzocaine, caffeine and paracetamol could have been used in the production and had the potential to produce 50kg of cocaine and 50kg of heroin. Each kilo of heroin has the potential value of £50,000 to £100,000 and the cocaine at least £40,000 per kilo.
In his police interview, Hardie refused to give any comment to the questions asked of him.
Thomson supplied a statement in which she denied any knowledge of the substances being in the car or any involvement in drug supply but refused to answer any questions.
Both Hardie and Thomson denied a charge of being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine but pleaded guilty at court.
Detective Constable David Hetherington said: “This was a vast quantity of substances which we know are used as bulking agents for cocaine and heroin in order that the dealers can increase their profits. | 2019-04-23T00:20:25 | https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2017/05/23/jail-duo-concerned-class-drug-supply/ | [
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Star midfielder Yaya Toure will be at Manchester City for the club's Premier League title defence.
The Ivory Coast international, 31, had been linked with a move away from the champions throughout the close-season.
Despite all the speculation, Toure said he wanted to see out his contract, which expires in mid-2017.
"There has been a lot of speculation but they [City] have always been good with me and good with my family," he told Sky Sports News on Saturday.
"I want to say that I will always honour my contract and stay as long as possible and don't think about all the speculation saying that I’m leaving.
"For the fans for all they have done for me and the club as well, I need to say it's a big pleasure to stay and continue and try to enjoy the next season."
Toure's agent Dimitri Seluk had appeared to be angling for a move for his client, even saying racism was the reason he was underrated.
Linked with a move to Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United, Toure said his focus was on the upcoming season.
"Everything is fine now. There was a lot of speculation about people sending me away and people were sending me everywhere," he said.
"I think sometimes it can be disappointing and I need to do something for the fans because people love me and people want to hear about what is happening.
"It's important as well to keep them in a good way and let them know that the team are preparing well and we’ll try to do it again next year."
There were reports Toure was unhappy with how City treated him for his birthday despite the club giving him a birthday cake.
Seluk said Toure would continue giving his best for the club.
"He has a contract and he will work very hard and I hope that next season Yaya will be the best player in the club," he said.
"I hope now everybody is very friendly and I hope for his next birthday they will celebrate together." | 2019-04-25T19:44:23 | https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/toure-insists-he-will-remain-man-city | [
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1) Easy Way: Beat the career on Hard (including the battle with Lou) with a guitar, let it save and turn off your console. Now turn on you xbox, and start the game with a controller, select career from the main menu and the profile that you had beat hard using the guitar, and the achievement will now unlock, without ever playing using the controller.
2) Legitimate Way: To do this legitimately, you will need to use the controller. Hard difficulty won't start off too bad, but Tier 7 and 8 will be huge pain (literally) as some songs have fast strum sections that are nearly impossible using the controller. I wish you lots of luck, practice, and all the patience in the world. You can always use the guitar method (in way #1) if you are struggling with a song and are decent at guitar to help you move on to the next song. The method above will work if you mix your completed songs with guitar + controller as well.
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The Cover photo from Harmless Home of hempcrete blocks for a home project in British Columbia. The woody fibers of the cannabis plant — it grows from seed to harvest in about four months — when mixed with lime produces a natural, light concrete that retains thermal mass and is highly insulating.
By Adam Popescu, New York Times News Service – Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018 | 2 a.m.
Battling the plant’s powerful drug connotation might be the toughest hurdle for farmers and builders and is possibly a more formidable obstacle during the Trump administration.
The plant is still highly regulated.
Still, in the United States, special permits are needed to build with hemp, and the requirements can vary by county and state. The first modern hemp house was constructed in 2010, in North Carolina. There are now about 50 such homes in the country.
Hemp was rediscovered in the 1980s across Europe, where cultivation is legal, and France has become the European Union’s largest hemp producer. Hundreds of buildings across the continent use the substance as insulation to fill walls and roofs, and under floors in wood-framed buildings. | 2019-04-20T05:00:47 | https://hempingtonpost.com/centuries-old-hemp-grows-popularity-home-building/ | [
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Open the Recording dialog to set how the camera should store events (alarms).
The recording methods are independent of the selected video codec (JPEG, MxPEG). In order to obtain the highest frame rate and the most efficient storage method, however, you should use the MOBOTIX MxPEG codec.
The effectiveness of Limit Frame Rate When Idle setting in the Setup Menu > General Image Settings dialog will be reduced when using high frame rates in continuous recording or pre-alarm images, or when using pre-alarm image intervals that are too short.
For the time defined in Recording Time, the camera continues storing the video stream as MxPEG clips (or the Post-Alarm Images in Snap Shot mode).
The camera records only when the respective custom signal is true.
The camera records only when the master camera's Recording is armed.
Note: Actions and Messages are not connected to recording and the camera will execute these functions even if recording has been deactivated.
In order to arm the camera in a time-controlled manner, you need to select a Time Table Profile.
Arm Recording in this dialog (see above) has to be set to Enable or can be set to work with the camera's signal input (e.g. with a key switch) using the SI Closed (low) or SI Open (high) options.
The camera signs the recorded data using the X.509 certificate of the camera's web server.
The function will automatically stop the recording of images or video clips if one of the selected events occur once the Time Before Terminate has been used up. Use this option if you would like freeze the stored images or image sequences and to prevent them from being overwritten.
Note: The selected event(s) must have been activated in the Event Settings dialog; deactivated events are shown accordingly.
If the recording has been terminated, the action symbol TR will be displayed in yellow: TR.
Set Retrigger Recording to All in order to combine all events in one event folder with the one event number.
Note: Event Recording is only available for Secure cameras.
Event recording stores MxPEG Clips (M00001.jpg, M00002.jpg, ...; max. ten seconds recording time each) that can also contain audio data (the Record Audio Data option has been activated). One of the advantages of this recording method is the efficient recording method that results in a high increase in server performance (e.g. up to 100 cameras can record on a single standard PC (P4, 3 GHz)). On the other hand, this method also allows storing lip-synchronous audio (sound) data of the camera.
Note: Continuous Recording is only available for Secure cameras.
Continuous recording stores MxPEG Clips all the time (M00001.jpg, M00002.jpg, ...) that can also contain audio data (the Record Audio Data option has been activated). The advantage of this recording mode is a continuous recording with reduced frame rate and permanent audio recording where the camera automatically increases the frame rate if it detects an event.
Similar to Event Recording, the Recording End (RE) event is triggered once the recording has been finished (including retriggered—i.e. prolonged—recording).
The HD (1280x720) and Full HD (1920x1080) resolutions available in the live image and in the image profiles are not available for this mode. Since these resolutions do not have an aspect ratio of 4:3 (letterbox), full image recording would clip parts of the image at the top and the bottom of the image. | 2019-04-22T22:30:56 | http://webcam.hlidarfjall.is/help/help?action-recording | [
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How can I contact Tamela Mann?
How to contact Tamela Mann's record label, booking agent, press. This includes email address, phone number, fax number. Social media sites also included. | 2019-04-21T11:06:40 | http://www.celebritydetective.com/how-can-i-contact-tamela-mann.html | [
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