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Legislators plan on introducing at least three LGBTQ-related bills in the upcoming legislative session, including one that would amend the New Mexico Human Rights Act. New Mexico Human Rights Act
Written in the 1960s, the New Mexico Human Rights Act could use a language update, according to Marshall Martinez, executive director of Equality New Mexico, a nonprofit that serves the LGBTQ community. One of the things the bill will bring, if passed, will be updated definitions of gender identity, gender and sexual orientation. “We’re crafting broad, expansive definitions to make sure this covers every person in New Mexico,” Martinez said. The second thing the bill will do is close what Martinez called “a loophole” that has always existed in the New Mexico Human Rights Act.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order earlier this month to expand equality for LGBTQIA+ individuals. The order is sweeping and involves several different federal agencies. It says that while the U.S. has advanced LGBTQIA+ rights in significant ways, much still needs to be done, particularly for transgender individuals and LGBTQIA+ individuals of color. Marshall Martinez, executive director of Equality New Mexico, said this is the “first time a sitting president has made such clear statements about queer and trans people.”
“It’s definitely a refreshing break from what we’ve been hearing and seeing so much of,” Martinez said. There has been an uptick of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures in recent years, according to LGTBQIA+ advocates.
New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver said she is optimistic the bill aiming to expand voting rights will be passed and signed during this legislative session. SB 8, sponsored by state Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, would expand voting rights in the state in a number of ways, including by allowing 16- and 17-year-old individuals the right to vote in local and state elections, allowing formerly incarcerated individuals to be eligible to vote upon release from prison and allowing individuals to automatically be registered to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles with the option to opt out if they choose. Related: Advocates hopeful voting rights legislation will help break down barriers for the formerly incarcerated
“I’m extremely optimistic about SB 8 going through the legislative process,” Toulouse Oliver said during one of the two virtual rallies hosted by Progress Now New Mexico* on Wednesday to support the bill. “We’re in a really good position even in this late hour first hearing in committee.”
SB 8 was heard in the state Senate Rules Committee Wednesday. Toulouse Oliver gave an overview of changes to the language being introduced in a substitute bill that clarified language from the first bill.
Several elected New Mexico officials signed onto a letter sent by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asking for the end of border expulsions under Title 42. Title 42 is a program started under former President Donald Trump which has continued under President Joe Biden. Under Title 42, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) expels asylum seekers at the border rather than allowing them to enter the country and go through the process of applying for asylum in the U.S.
Under Biden, some exemptions became available though CBP still turned away the majority who requested asylum at a port of entry. But Katie Hoeppner, a spokesperson for ACLU-New Mexico, told NM Politlcal Report in an email that the situation “is now deeply troubling because there is no way for people seeking asylum to safely approach ports of entry and request protection, no matter how vulnerable they are.”
The letter states that allowing asylum seekers to enter into the U.S. is not only a legal responsibility but that it can be done safely. The letter states that recent research shows that 99 percent of asylum seekers who were not detained or released from immigration custody showed up for their hearings in 2019.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order Monday, effective immediately, directing state agencies to collect voluntary data for informational purposes on the LGBTQ+ community. The state Department of Health will be the lead agency, Lujan Grisham’s press secretary Nora Meyers Sackett wrote to NM Political Report. But all state agencies will be providing the voluntary questions asking individuals during in-take processes about sexual orientation and gender identity. The order mirrors SB 316, the Gender and Orientation Data Collection bill which state Sen. Carrie Hamblen, D-Las Cruces, sponsored in the 2021 Legislature. That bill passed the Senate but died on the House floor before a vote.
With six openly queer legislators participating in the 2021 New Mexico legislative session, many in the LGBTQ community said this past session was important in the advancement of equal rights. But also, legislation that would repeal the state’s ban on abortion, remove qualified immunity as a legal defense and enable individuals whose civil rights have been violated to seek financial remedy through the courts and require employers to provide paid sick leave to employees are major highlights for the LGBTQ community as well as the reproductive justice community because the two intersect. The New Mexico Civil Rights Act, which made the changes on qualified immunity, and the Healthy Workplaces Act, which imposes the paid sick leave requirement, passed both chambers but await Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s signature. Lujan Grisham has already signed the Respect New Mexico Women and Families Act, on abortion, into law after it passed both chambers in February. Related: Governor signs bill repealing abortion ban into law: ‘a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body’
But there were other moments, such as an informal “gay pride night” in the state Senate, when two bills sponsored by openly queer Senators passed in mid-March, that were noted by members of the LGBTQ community.
Three bills passed the state Senate Sunday night that will, if they become law, advance equity for the LGBTQ community and people of color. SB 213, called the panic defense bill, passed by a vote of 41 to 0 with no debate. Sponsored by state Sen. Jacob Candelaria, D-Albuquerque, the bill would prevent someone who commits a violent crime from using the victim’s sexual orientation, gender expression or identity as a legal defense in court. State Sen. Liz Stefanics, D-Los Cerrillos, who is a co-sponsor on the bill, said she knew a man in the 1980s who was violently murdered because of his sexual orientation. The man who perpetrated the crime used the panic defense, Stefanics said.
Two years after a group of conservative Democrats, along with Republicans voted against decriminalizing abortion care, the state Senate passed SB 10 Thursday, 25 to 17. SB 10, sponsored by state Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, is called the Respect New Mexico Women and Families Act and has a mirror bill, HB 7, sponsored by Rep. Micaela Lara Cadena, D-Mesilla. The two bills remove three sections from the criminal code which, in 1969, banned abortion with some limited exceptions. The law has repeatedly been called archaic and advocates for its repeal said it included language contrary to how medicine is currently practiced. While the law is currently unenforceable, reproductive rights advocates have said that given the conservative bloc on the U.S. Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade could be gutted in the next few years.
The state Senate’s Tax, Business and Transportation Committee unanimously endorsed a two-pronged proposal Tuesday designed to provide businesses with economic relief and also stimulate job growth, part of an ongoing effort to help New Mexicans struggling with the fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Senate Bill 5, sponsored by Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup, expands the Local Economic Development Act in two ways. “The first one provides [$200 million in] immediate economic assistance in the way of grants for thousands of small and midsize businesses to use for mortgage, rent or lease abatement so that they can rehire workers or new employees,” Alicia J. Keyes, Cabinet secretary of the Economic Development Department, told lawmakers. In recent discussions with business owners, Keyes said their No. 1 concern is the debt they’ve incurred on their rents.
With a new set of members in the state Senate, a bill to repeal the New Mexico 1969 abortion ban is expected to be filed in the upcoming New Mexico Legislature. Six Democrats who support abortion rights beat Republicans in November, in some cases after defeating anti-abortion Democrats in June’s primary, for state Senate seats, tipping the balance of power further to the left in the upper chamber. The state Senate defeated the 2019 effort to repeal the antiquated state law that bans abortion with few exceptions. Related: State Senate shifts left with progressive wins
Of the eight Democrats who sided with Republicans on the repeal vote two years ago, only two remain: state Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup, and state Sen. Pete Campos, D-Las Vegas. Incoming state Senators Carrie Hamblen, Siah Correa Hemphill and Leo Jaramillo, all progressive Democrats who ran on reproductive health, defeated their incumbent Democrat opponents in the primary and then won again in November against their Republican challengers.


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If you are looking for a rewarding career that supports work-life balance, consider joining the dedicated professionals at the Legislative Division of Post Audit, the audit arm of the Kansas Legislature. Our IT audit team conducts IT security audits of government agencies and continuously monitors selected state IT projects to help identify when a project is at risk of failure. Our office supports state government and the citizens of Kansas while providing a healthy, equal-opportunity work environment. The salary range for this challenging but rewarding job is between $45,000 and $65,000, depending on your skills and experience.
To be considered, send a letter of application and a resume to Nicole Blanchett, Office Manager, Legislative Division of Post Audit, 800 SW Jackson, #1200, Topeka, KS 66612, or to LPAApplicants@lpa.ks.gov. Incomplete applications will not be considered for review. Applications must be received by November 30, 2018.
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The soldier, named as Halvidar Mohyuddin, is the fourth to die in five days as the two nuclear-armed rivals square off across the disputed mountain region.
The Pakistani military said the latest incident happened in the area of Battal.
"Today, India troops resorted to unprovoked firing at a Pakistani post named Kundi," it said in a statement.
An Indian army spokesman insisted that troops responded after Pakistani forces fired on their positions.
Kashmir is claimed by both countries and has been the cause of two full-blown wars.
The latest flare-up began on Sunday when Pakistan said one of its soldiers had been killed during an Indian incursion. It was followed with the deaths of two Indian soldiers and allegations that one had been beheaded.
Each side has registered their anger by summoning the other's high commissioners for a dressing down.
At the same time, both governments have insisted they will not let the skirmishes undermine recent progress on political, economic and sporting ties.
On Thursday, Hina Rabbani Khar, the Pakistani foreign minister, said: "Let me convey once again, even at this time, our commitment to normalise relations with India and when we say normalise relations with India we are talking about normalising in all aspects."
Relations between political leaders of both countries had been slowly improving, with senior ministers travelling back and forth for summits.
But tentative peace talks have made no progress on the issue of Kashmir and it remains a red-line issue for many populist politicians with an eye on elections looming in both countries.
Imtiaz Gul, an analyst based in Islamabad, said the result was a stand-off with neither side wanting to seem soft by backing down nor wanting to escalate a flash-point that could lead to war.

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Low iron is a BIG DEAL, especially when it comes to weight loss & hormonal health and here is why:
1. Iron is required to make thyroid hormones (controls your metabolism)
2. Iron is important for converting the amino acid tyrosine into dopamine (your motivation hormone)
3. Iron reflects your oxygen carrying capacity. If you don’t have enough oxygen this creates oxidative stress = fatigue, brain fog, low motivation, slow metabolism. This makes putting in the energy to cook healthy meals and do exercise throughout the day very difficult.
4. Iron deficiency has been shown to impair glucose metabolism increasing risk of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Other minerals are also important when it comes to managing blood sugar (see photos below). Interestingly, HIGH iron also impairs glucose metabolism since it increases oxidative stress. Neither high or low iron is ideal for blood sugar. *** In order to know what your mineral status is, testing is important. Click Here to see a sample report of the Metabolomix+ Urine test by Genova I use with patients to assess.
I see low iron very frequently in my practice and it is often down played as not being important, relevant, or viewed as if “there must be something else going on”. This is far from the case.
Iron needs to be assessed in those with weight loss resistance, low energy, and hypothyroidism.
- Ferritin is a blood marker reflective of stored iron and should be 75-100 (not 5 or 10).
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Fidget spinner toys have continued to grow in popularity this year, with the twirling 'stress relief' aids satiating restless fingers in high streets, classrooms and offices all over the globe. Regular fidget spinners are free to spiral away on airlines too, but the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was forced to confiscate one particular spinner that raised a few safety eyebrows.
The toy in question - dubbed "Satan's fidget spinner" - was nabbed at the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in the US state of Georgia on Friday (16 June). Rather than a mere distraction from take-off or in-flight turbulence, this particular item, was deemed to be a possible deadly weapon.
The TSA posted an image of the impounded spinner on its Instagram account - a profile which the governmental agency often uses to humourously remind would-be passengers that guns, knives, grenades and the like are unacceptable hand luggage items.
A quick look at the satanic spinner is enough to see why it didn't make the flight, as the metallic object resembles a Japanese shuriken weapon, which many refer to as ninja or throwing stars. The fidget spinner craze has prompted a number of similarly dangerous designs, with many selling on eBay.
"Satan's fidget spinner was discovered in a carry-on bag at the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)," read the post. "While normal #FidgetSpinners are permitted, this one is a weapon."
The post currently has over 6,000 likes on the social photography platform, which is slightly less than the usual like-tallies the account garners from its semi-regular posts of explosive detection sniffer dogs.
Fidget spinners also recently gained notoriety in the video game world thanks to a Grand Theft Auto 5 PC mod that swapped in-game grenades for the popular toys. Unfortunately for fidget spinner fans, the asset swap causes the game's pedestrians to run away in horror and prompts its overzealous police force to hunt the player down via lethal means.


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|Year : 1996 | Volume
| Issue : 2 | Page : 87-89
A comparative evaluation of pilocarpine 1% and clonidine 0.125% versus timolol 0.5%
R Sihota, HC Agarwal, YL Rajashekar
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, A.I.I.M.S. New Dehi, India
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, A.I.I.M.S. New Dehi
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
All the presently available antiglaucoma medications have either local or systemic adverse effects. Combinations of drugs are being used not only to increase the effectivity and compliance but also to decrease the incidence and magnitude of side effects.
The single dose response of open angle glaucoma eyes to pilocarpine 1%, clonidine 0.125%, a combination of pilocarpine 1% and clonidine 0.125%, and timolol 0.5% was studied in a double blind, masked, cross over study.
Over a period of twelve hours the effectivity of the combination of pilocarpine 1% and clonidine 0.125% was significantly more than that of either drug alone and was found to be similar to that of timolol 0.5%. No local or systemic adverse effects were seen.
Keywords: Pilocarpine - Clonidine - Timolol - Combination therapy.
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Sihota R, Agarwal H C, Rajashekar Y L. A comparative evaluation of pilocarpine 1% and clonidine 0.125% versus timolol 0.5%. Indian J Ophthalmol 1996;44:87-9
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Sihota R, Agarwal H C, Rajashekar Y L. A comparative evaluation of pilocarpine 1% and clonidine 0.125% versus timolol 0.5%. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 1996 [cited 2022 Nov 26];44:87-9. Available from: https://www.ijo.in/text.asp?1996/44/2/87/24594
Control of intraocular pressure still remains the mainstay of therapy for glaucoma. The range of topical medications available has increased in the last two decades, but each has its own limitations, due to local as well as systemic problems. Combinations of drugs are used to increase individual effectivity, compliance and to decrease the dosage of drugs thereby decreasing the incidence of any side effects. Two drugs acting at different points on the aqueous pathway can have a greater ocular hypotensive effect than either drug alone. Cairns suggested that a combination of pilocarpine and clonidine may form an ideal antiglaucoma therapy.
Experimental studies have shown that topical clonidine is adequately absorbed into the anterior chamber with low systemic concentrations. Clinical evaluation in humans has led to contradictory claims about its efficacy, duration of action, effect on the fellow eye and systemic hypotension. Pilocarpine 1% has a signficant hypotensive effect, without the attendant, problems of brow ache and extreme miosis. There is no available information on the effectivity of a combination of pilocarpine 1 % and clonidine.
We studied the ocular hypotensive effect of a single dose of pilocarpine 1%, clonidine 0.125%, combination of pilocarpine and clonidine and timolol 0.5% in a double blind, masked, cross over study.
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Ten consecutive patients with ocular hypertension or early open angle glaucoma with symmetric intraocular pressures (a difference of ± 3 mm Hg), were enrolled in this study after informed consent. Early open angle glaucoma was considered to be one with a field defect upto only a single arcuate scotoma and a cup-disc ratio of ± 0.7. All topical medications were withheld for two weeks to allow for an adequate washout of timolol maleate and acetazolamide was discontinued 48 hours prior to the study. Patients with other known ocular pathology, or cardiovascular, hepatic or renal disease were excluded from the study.
All patients had baseline diurnal intraocular pressures recorded. From the following day, at 72 hours intervals a single drop of one of the drugs - pilocarpine nitrate 1% (Group-I), clonidine hydrochloride 0.125% (Group-II), a combination of pilocarpine nitrate 1 % and clonidine hydrochloride 0.125% (piloclonidine) (Group-IIII), and timolol maleate 0.5% (Group-IV) was instilled in the right eye at the same time of the day.
Intraocular pressure was measured in both the eyes by applanation tonometry by a masked observer immediately prior to instillation of the drug and repeated 2, 4, 6, 8 and 12 hours later. The order in which the drugs were administered was randomized and was unknown to the patient and the observer.
Clonidine hydrochloride, obtained from Cipla Limited, Bombay was diluted in normal saline. The final pH was 4.61 and the osmolarity was 356 m Osm.
At each point the blood pressure, pulse rate, visual acuity and pupillary diameter were measured, so also were the patient's responses to the therapy.
One patient of group IV (timolol maleate) did not return for evaluation.
The results were analysed using the two sample 't' test on the basis of a percentage fall in intraocular pressure at each observation, for each patient, calculated as:
The power of the statistical test employed was almost 1.
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The mean age of the ten patients was 55 years (range 43 to 61 years). Seven patients were male and three were female. Four patients were newly diagnosed. Of the remaining six patients, two had been on timolol maleate and pilocarpine for less than a year; two patients had been on the same drug combination for 1.5 and 4 years respectively; and two patients on timolol alone for less than a year.
After withdrawing the topical medication for two weeks and acetazolamide for seventy two hours, the base line mean intraocular pressure was 26.1 mm Hg ± 2.90 mm Hg and 25.2 ± 1.51 mm Hg in the right and left eye respectively.
The reduction of IOP (mm Hg) from the baseline diurnal and as a percentage of the baseline diurnal intraocular pressure has been presented in [Table - 1]. One patient did not report for testing with the final instillation of timolol maleate 0.5%. The results of this group are therefore calculated for nine patients. Pilocarpine 1% produced a maximal IOP reduction of 17.1% at 2 hours, and clonidine 0.125% produced 24.9% reduction of IOP. The combination therapy caused the IOP to maximally reduce by 39.2% two hours after instillation. In contrast, the maximum activity of timolol maleate 0.5%, was seen at 4 hours and was 39.1%. There was statistical reduction of IOP by combination therapy of pilocarpine 1% and clonidine 0.125% compared to single therapy by either medications (two sample 't' test). There was no statistically significant difference in the effectivity of combination group and timolol maleate 0.5% [Table - 2].
Intraocular pressure changes in the fellow eye were minimal for pilocarpine 1%, clonidine 0.125% and combination therapy (-1.21 to +1.05%), while Timolol maleate caused a reduction in IOP 8.26 to 16.91% in the contralateral eye.
Blood pressure changes, both systolic and diastolic were insignificant as analysed by the paired students 't' test with pilocarpine 1%. Clonidine 0.125% produced a mean systolic pressure fall of 4.34% (SD ± 3.69) and a diastolic pressure fall of 4.13 ± 2.9% at two hours. In the combination group the systolic blood pressure reduced 4.21 ± 1.8% at two hours, and the diastolic pressure 3.16 ± 2.5%; and Timolol 0.5% produced a fall in systolic blood pressure of 2.79 ± 1.2% and diastolic change of 0.32 ± 0.4%. All these changes were statistically not significant. The pulse rate variations with all the drugs was also statistically not significant.
The mean pupil size with pilocarpine 1% was 1.85 ± 0.4 mm, with clonidine 0.125% it was 3.72±0.5 mm, with combination therapy it was 2.41 ± 0.3 mm and with timolol 0.5% it was 3.82 ± 0.5 mm. The miosis with both pilocarpine 1% and combination therapy was statistically significant (p < 0.001).
The visual acuity remained unchanged throughout the study in all groups and local or systemic side effects were not noted during the study period.
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Many new antiglaucoma drugs have been introduced in the last two decades, but they all have local or systemic adverse effects. Patient compliance with more than one medication is often suspect. There has been some interest to combine two medications inorder to overcome their known limitations and to increase patient compliance with the use of a single drop once or twice daily.,
The mechanism of action of clonidine has yet to be completely elucidated, but there are reservations to its use because of a possible fall in disc perfusion pressure., Clonidine in concentrations of 0.125%, has been found to produce no significant change in blood pressure or pulse rate.,, In a study by Sood et al(personal communication) clonidine 0.125% was found to be more effective than clonidine 0.06%, but did not produce any local or systemic adverse effects. Clonidine in a concentration of 0.125% is also probably at the top of the dose response curve. Pilocarpine is a time tested drug with associated problems of brow ache and miosis in the usual concentrations of 2% and above. Pilocarpine 1% in single dose application has been found to produce a reduction in intraocular pressure of 18.25% at ninety minutes, with insignificant side effects. The effectivity of pilocarpine increases further on regular use.
A seventy-two hour washout period was given between the drugs evaluated to allow for a return to baseline values. Timolol maleate has a half life of 1.2 hours in rabbit aqueous and clinical effectivity for upto twenty-four hours in human eyes. Preparatory to the study, we confirmed that one drop of Timolol maleate 0.5% had no clinical effect at the end of seventy-two hours in four patients. The sample size could also be considered small, but using the same eye of the same patients has given our statistical analysis an almost optimal power to detect a difference.
The combination of pilocarpine 1% and clonidine 0.125% was assessed in this study for effectivity and adverse reactions. Over twelve hours the effectivity of this therapy was found to be similar to that of timolol maleate 0.5% in the eye in which it was applied, and was significantly more than that of either drug alone. No clinically significant changes in blood pressure or pulse rate were recorded and there was no reduction in the intraocular pressure in the fellow eye, suggesting that the systemic absorption was subminimal. No local adverse effects were recorded.
This combination of pilocarpine 1% and clonidine 0.125% is effective, well tolerated and has no significant systemic effects. It could be used as an alternative or additive drug in glaucoma therapy.
| References|| |
Airaksinen PJ., Valkonen R., Stenorg T. et al. A double masked study of timolol and pilocarpine combined. Am J Ophthalmol 104:587-590, 1987.
Cairns JE. Glaucoma. New York, Grune and Stratton, 1986 pp.619.
Sihota R., Ganesh A., Bandopadhyaya GP. et al.Pharmacokinetics of topical clonidine. Ann Ophthalmol 27:4-8, 1995.
Harrison R., Kaufmann CS. Clonidine. Arch Ophthalmol 95:1368-1373, 1977.
Kreiglstein GK., Langham ME., Leydhecker W. The peripheral and central neural actions of clonidine in normal and glaucomatous eyes. Inv Ophthalmol 17:149-158, 1978.
Hodapp E., Kolker AE., Kass MA., Goldberg I. et al. The effect of topical clonidine on intraocular pressure. Arch Ophthalmol 99:1208-1311, 1981.
Lee DA., Topper JE., Brubaker RF. Effect of clonidine on aqueous humor flow in normal eyes. Exp Eye Res 38:239-246, 1984.
Mehta U., Agarwal HC., Sood NN. Clonidine in chronic simple glaucoma. Ind J Ophthalmol 33:15-17, 1985.
Harris LS., Galin MA. Dose response analysis of pilocarpine induced ocular hypotension. Arch Ophthalmol 84:605-608, 1979.
Morrison JC. and Robin AL. Adjunctive glaucoma therapy. Ophthalmology 96:3-7, 1989.
Schoenwald R. in Havener's Ocular pharmacology. Ed TF Manger, EL Craig. Mosby Year Book Inc, 1994, pg.30.
Zimmerman TJ, Kaufman HE. Timolol:Dose response and duration of action. Arch Ophthalmol 95:605-607, 1977.
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Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Allyson Schwartz doubled down Wednesday on her outspoken defense of Obamacare, challenging her opponents in the multicandidate primary to speak up and take pride in a law many Democrats have shied away from embracing. In a 30-minute call with reporters, Schwartz vigorously defended the law’s successes and promised voters would hear more of the same on the campaign trail.
“I will say it quite a few more times in this campaign: I’m very proud of my work on the Affordable Care Act,” said Schwartz, who as a congresswoman was the only candidate in the Democratic field to actually vote for the measure.
Earlier this week, Schwartz released a new TV ad touting the ACA, one of the few Democrats to go out of her way to support a law that’s unpopular with most voters. Her pivot to put the issue front and center makes her the most prominent Democrat in the country to do so this cycle, and turns the heat up on other Democrats in Pennsylvania and nationwide who have scrambled to dodge the law’s more controversial aspects.
For Schwartz, publicly backing the law also represents a gambit that its relative popularity with Democrats will help her make up ground in the primary, where she trails the front-running former state Revenue Secretary Tom Wolf. She repeatedly called out Wolf for being “evasive” and “quiet” about the law and questioned whether voters could trust him to defend and carry out the full breadth of the law’s potential.
“I have not heard that from anyone else, certainly not from Tom Corbett and not from the other Democrats either,” Schwartz said.
During the call, Schwartz ticked off a list of the law’s positives, including a ban on denying insurance coverage to children with preexisting conditions, closure of the donut hole on prescription-drug coverage for seniors, and provisions that not only benefit the working poor but improve the quality and bring down the cost of plans offered through private insurers. Republican efforts to repeal the law in its entirety would deny Americans of those broader improvements, she said, not just halt its more controversial elements.
Critics have suggested that Schwartz’s ad isn’t risky becuase she’s using it in a Democratic primary in a state where the party still likes President Obama. But Schwartz made it clear that were she to win the May 20 primary, she would campaign just as aggressively on the law’s positives in the general election against Republican Gov. Tom Corbett.
“In the general election I will go toe-to toe with Tom Corbett on implementation of the ACA,” she said. “I’m happy to have that debate and I’m looking forward to having that debate.”
Schwartz’s strategy will please many progressive Democrats, who have urged the party to aggressively embrace the law and its positive, and a certain former president. In a March interview with Real Clear Politics, Bill Clinton told Democrats to stop running away from the law’s problems and start standing up for its successes. He called Democrats’ “tendency to shy away from things they had done that were unpopular” a “mistake.”
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"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it will not stop. Ever."
By this point, the film is so well-known and revered that it would be pointless to recap its plot. Suffice it to say that The Terminator is smartly scripted and tightly directed with an urgency that doesn't allow for a single wasted frame of film or unneeded line of dialogue. The movie was produced on a small budget but never lets that get in the way of delivering consistent thrills, and is extremely well-plotted without talking down to its audience or falling victim to holes in its own logic.
Famed science fiction author Harlan Ellison accused Cameron of stealing ideas from his writings in creating the basic concept of the movie, and after a lengthy lawsuit that finally settled out of court all subsequent prints and home video editions have included an acknowledgement to Ellison as the end credits come up. An indication of Cameron's feelings about this matter, the text rather snarkily reads, "Acknowledgement to the works of Harlan Ellison" and no more. While I would never deny an author the right to protect his works, the whole scandal rather strikes me as a case of sour grapes. I've seen the old Outer Limits episodes that Ellison claims were the basis of the film, and although there were some minor similarities in concept (hardly enough to qualify as plagiarism) it's clear that the achievement of The Terminator belongs entirely to James Cameron. The film was his baby from start to finish, and there's no point in begrudging him its well-deserved success.
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Of the initial wave of launch titles, this is one of the better-looking Blu-ray discs from Sony. Unfortunately that's not saying much, but I'll start with the positives first. MGM gave the movie a thorough digital scrubbing for its Special Edition DVD release in 2001, and that same master is the basis for this new Blu-ray. Keeping in mind that The Terminator will always be a low-budget film from 1984 shot on cheap film stock under makeshift lighting, the color transfer looks surprisingly clean and sharp. It's still a generally grainy, sometimes murky film, but the worst of the heavy graininess from previous video editions was cleaned up without the typical appearance of serious DNR artifacts or smearing. Black levels are solid with good shadow detail (Arnie's exposed penis is more clearly visible at the 5:25 mark than it's ever been). Colors look good and accurate to the production if not eye-popping. Some dirt is still problematic around the special effects sequences, but this is endemic to the optical compositing process used at the time and will always be part of the movie unless the studio ever goes to the expense of digitally erasing each speck. I don't count that as a video transfer flaw.
The problem is that the Blu-ray hardly looks like High Definition at all. In fact, in the majority of scenes it's barely distinguishable from the 2001 DVD edition of the movie. In direct comparison, there's a modest improvement in detail and clarity, especially in the brightest daylight scenes, but overall it still looks like a better-than-average DVD. Part of this may be due to the movie's photographic style, but the video also has a filtered appearance common to the other Sony Blu-ray launch titles. Using MPEG2 compression on a single-layer disc burdened by space-hogging PCM audio takes an obvious toll. Compression problems such as noise and frozen grain patterns are visible in some of the most difficult scenes like those hazy shots of the L.A. streets at night. For The Terminator this is certainly a nice transfer that looks as good as the movie ever has, but it's not much of an upgrade over the DVD at all.
The Terminator Blu-ray disc is not flagged with an Image Constraint Token and will play in full High Definition quality over a Blu-ray player's analog Component Video outputs.
The photo images used in this article were taken from the DVD edition for illustrative purposes only, and are not intended to demonstrate Blu-ray picture quality.
The problems with the 5.1 mix were well catalogued at the time the last DVD came out. Although the new mix opens up many scenes in a dramatic way, especially the future war sequences, the artificial shifting of sound effects and ambience around the soundstage is often gimmicky and distracting. The balance of the mix just feels off, drowning out certain cues that used to be integral to the fabric of the sound design (like Reese instinctively pumping his shotgun when awakening from a flashback nightmare). Audio producer Van Ling spent a lot of time and effort attempting to bring the movie up to current standards and make it more compatible with the sequels, but at the cost of sacrificing the original flavor of the sound. Worse, many of the original sound effects have been replaced by newly foleyed substitutes, and the decisions are often perplexing and ridiculous. The new gunshots don't sound anything like they used to, nor are they at all appropriate to the type of gun being used on screen. When Arnold kills the first Sarah Connor, the booming of his handgun used to be exaggerated for effect, but now comes out with an absurd pifft pifft pifft sound as if it had a silencer. What were they thinking?
For what it is, the PCM 5.1 encoding of the remix sounds pretty good, though not much different from the standard Dolby Digital. The fidelity of the original dialogue and sound effects (those not replaced, anyway) is pretty limited and doesn't gain much from the uncompressed format. The track is bassy as hell now, and that bass still comes out boomy. Directional effects are perhaps a slight bit cleaner, but the difference doesn't seem worth the expense of how much disc space the PCM track takes away from the video bit rate.
Subs & Dubs:
No interactive features have been included, but it's worth noting that the Java-based disc menus can be accessed while the movie is still playing, much like the HDi menus on HD DVD discs. The booklet included in the disc case advertises a function called Blu-Wizard that allows you to "customize the way you watch special features to provide a unique viewing experience". The booklet instructs you to select "Blu-Wizard" on the disc's main menu, but in fact there is no such option anywhere on the disc that I could find. Whoops.

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An octopus lingers over two square containers, each marked
with the flag of a country vying for the World Cup championship.
Tentacles oscillate in psychic confusion until the signal is clear,
the choice made. The octopus descends over one container,
snags a mussel, devours it. The prediction, broadcast across the globe,
portends victory for the chosen, disaster for the rejected.
Hoards of hate letters pour into the aquarium—death threats, calamari
recipes, warnings of revenge. Love letters, too, overfill the mail slot,
requesting oracle services for election outcomes, the likelihood
of marriage proposals, winning the lottery. The octopus, eight legs
undulating in sea-water domain, floats undaunted by fame,
while we stretch for something to believe in, something to fill
the hollow in our lives with a strategy more solid than chance.
We open our fists to the palm reader; scan the seams in our hands
for hidden significance. We subscribe to the horoscopes, revel
when the solar eclipse erects Libra’s love life, when the alignment
of Mars and Saturn leads Sagittarius to new employment. We watch
for signs and omens, premonitions and prophecy, and just when
we despair that nothing is worthy of faith, another miracle
juts through the clouds, and the odds tell us this one is real—
like the octopus, one hundred percent correct in his predictions,
and if you can’t believe the mollusk, there’s a parakeet in Singapore
eager to reveal your fate.
Published in Slant, A Journal of Poetry – Summer 2011
We walk the country road
along the boundary of your neighborhood,
where a barbed wire fence
curtains the field. Cows graze the land;
and collect at the small cedar clump
beside Robbins Creek.
We hear the bellow
before we see the cow on the ground,
her sides heaving
as she pushes a wet calf out of her body,
front feet and head first,
the birth broad and raw, and your face,
wide as the moon.
For a moment
you don’t speak, then questions gush
in the rush of water
and stand like the calf on shaky legs.
This is how ideas are born,
and poems, within the veiled chambers
of the heart.
This is how thoughts
travel paths under thin shade of cedars,
under birch and sycamore,
under moss that mounts starry eyes
along the creek bed.
This is how wishes wing their way
to hope, to belief.
The calf turns brown eyes
to halcyon sky. His mother licks and cuddles,
prods his first tentative steps.
We stand awed, witnesses to the breezes
browsing the tussock, drying
the calf’s fur, as the sun spreads glitter
across the potent land.
Published in Yemassee, Spring 2010
First Place Winner of the Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Poetry Contest, Spring 2010
Included in the chapbook, Continuum, by Sandy Coomer – published July 2012
The Sex Life of Swans
In May, five to ten eggs. But first,
in February, a protective male, vicious
as if some wild demon boils his blood,
the lake splitting as he charges through it,
neck back and eyes wide in red-raged ire.
We watch from our perch on the bench,
where moments before you felt the foot
of your son push out from the inside. You ask me
if it hurts to have my skin rearranged in such lopsided
ways, knowing you made this strange satisfaction
in both of us, love and fierceness, and I said
sometimes it hurts
and sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes it feels like I’ve waited forever for this
tumble-turn being with shudder-shifting feet.
The swans intertwine necks, breast to breast,
bill to bill, the only time he calms enough to know
the pink streak of dawn against a blue-black water.
The rage is just below the surface, a mirror image
of a frantic love, swirling among rushes at the water’s edge.
In June, the hatching. But first, a savage passion
that matches what lies beneath your refined humanity –
the way you guard me and your seeded child
swimming in the dark lake, pressing
his tiny footprints against your desperate heart.
Published in Rose Red Review, 2014


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Dana Welles Delany was born on March 13, 1956, in New York City and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. Dana knew early in life that she wanted to be an actress. Following graduation from Wesleyan University, this tall (5` 7") beauty moved to New York and developed her skills working in daytime television and theater. Dana starred in the Broadway show "A Life", and received critical acclaim in a number of off-Broadway productions as well. Her role in Nicholas Kazan`s controversial "Bloodmoon" in New York led her to Hollywood. Dana acted in a number of TV series, working steadily until she would get her own starring vehicle. That happened in 1988, when Dana became identified with Army nurse Colleen McMurphy in ABC TV`s critically-acclaimed series "China Beach" (1988), the role earning her 3 Emmy nominations and 2 Emmy Awards as Best Actress.
Dana moved onto movies, and eventually started getting starring roles in films, such as in Exit to Eden (1994). With over a dozen TV and movie projects within the last few years, Dana is one of the busiest actresses in Hollywood.
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1984: TV commercial for Wisk detergent.
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Dwayne Sanders – Christian, coach, mentor – honored with gym dedication
By Bill Howard
If you didn’t know Dwayne Sanders, there are at least two things about him you can be sure of. The first is that he died way too young: he was 52 when he died of cancer in April of 2018. The second? He touched many lives, and a whole lot of people thought a whole lot of him.
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, the memory of Sanders – a longtime basketball coach and mentor to inner-city youth – was honored when the gymnasium at the Emerald Youth Foundation on Broadway Avenue was named for him. Some 125 people – friends, family, colleagues and mentorees among them – attended the ceremony.
One of the many speakers was Cumecus Cates, a Fulton high-school grad currently attending Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky. “Dwayne for me was much like a father figure,” said Cates. “My dad has been in prison most of my life, so I haven’t had him around. I’ve been blessed with people like Dwayne Sanders and many other coaches who are God-fearing men. I give Dwayne a lot of credit for where I am today.”
In 1992, Sanders went to work for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Knoxville. In 2012, he approached his friend and former Maryville College roommate, Steve Diggs – founder of EYF – with the idea of the two organizations joining forces. Sanders thought the combined effort would result in a broader outreach that could help more kids and do more for the community. Diggs was on board.
“Dwayne wanted to combine his passion for urban youth sports and his commitment to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, so he came up with the idea of ‘let’s get FCA and EYF to join in a partnership and grow our sports ministry across the city,’” said Diggs.
It turned out to be a good decision, especially for area kids wanting to play sports. During Sanders’s tenure, the number of kids and teams grew exponentially, from 322 kids on 38 teams, to over 1600 kids on 169 teams. A number of new sports were also added. The expansion allowed many kids to attend FCA camps and to get involved with campus ministries activities.
Leon Willis is the Tennessee State Director of FCA. He hired Sanders in the fall of 1992. He was one of numerous speakers on the dais.
“What can I say about Dwayne Sanders,” said Willis. “Dwayne lived out his faith …in that passion I got to know a man of great kindness, a man who had a can-do attitude. For anyone who knows Dwayne, he loved well. I’m so proud of the man that he was, the man that he is still, and the lives that were touched by his hard work and diligent pursuit of young people to the gospel.”
Sanders’s wife Lisa, whom he met at church in 1985, and his kids – daughter Madison, 24, and son Taylor, 21 – were in the crowd. Dwayne and Lisa married in 1990.
“(This event) is incredibly special and the legacy he left in this city, it’s obviously very big,” said Lisa Sanders. “It’s just such an honor to be recognized like this. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about him.”
Lisa Sanders said that Dwayne would have been in complete disbelief at Tuesday’s event that honored him.
“So special,” said Madison Sanders of the event that attached her father’s name to a gym. “Not only did everyone here love him, this was a testimony to his own life. He was my best friend ever. I could go to him about anything.”
“I think (the event) is really special just because he’s influenced so many people here, so many players here, students here,” said Taylor Sanders. “And I think it couldn’t have gone any better than naming the gym for him.”
Diggs made the crowd laugh with a roommate story that involved living with Sanders’s cat. He then got more serious.
“I was there in that room that night at Maryville’s FCA event when Dwayne made the decision to become a follower of Jesus Christ,” Diggs said. “And that was quite special. I think it’s fitting that we would name this facility, this gymnasium, after Dwayne.”
Cates was asked if Sanders was a better coach or mentor. After a moment, he decided on the latter. “If Dwayne hadn’t given me the opportunity, I wouldn’t be where I am now,” Cates said. “He was just an awesome person. I didn’t really get to say goodbye to Dwayne. Today provided some closure for me.”
It was rather obvious from Tuesday’s event that when Sanders died, Knoxville lost one fine man.


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First published in 2012, Derek Mulveen’s debut children’s book Oisín the Brave-Moon Adventure (Eire’s Kids, 2012) was widely received in Ireland and across the Atlantic in the United States.
Co–writing with his wife Michelle Melville, Derek has completed three US book tours and headlined various prestigious book festivals such as Listowel Writers Week, Milwaukee Irish Fest, Belfast Book Festival and Dublin Book Festival. During story time, Derek ignites the imagination and innocence of young children. He loved Irish Myths, Fairy Tales and Biblical stories as a young boy. Educated in Galway, Derek worked as a Special Needs Assistant working with children that experience difficulties in learning and various disabilities. He is currently studying to become a Teacher in Special Needs specialising in Behaviour, ADHD and Autism to understand and develop his progressive knowledge.


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Growing up I was the quintessential girly girl. I loved playing dolls and dress-up, which fed into reading every Teen Girl magazine I could get my hands on in middle school. I wanted to be beautiful. I wanted to be loved. I wanted to be something that someone wanted. As I got older I developed in my mind that all of these things would be answered when I fell in love. I dated, but no one swept me off my feet the way that Brad did.
I met Brad when I was in my early twenties on a dating site. As soon as I saw his grainy digital camera photo, I was smitten. I messaged him, and from there we exchanged messages well into the early morning. By the time the sun had come up, we learned we had a handful of mutual friends, many common interests, and a date set for the upcoming weekend.
My first date with Brad was everything I had hoped for. Dinner, a movie, followed by a walk in the park where he got out a guitar played some of my favorite songs for me. I had mentioned them during our phone conversations, and he spent the week learning them to impress me. The night ended perfectly, with a kiss and a date for the following weekend.
Brad and I were immediately an item. We quickly met one another’s families and friends. A few months into our relationship he told me that I would be his wife one day. It was love. From then on I fell into a position that I considered to be that of a wife: I was loving, helpful, and willing to do what I could to make him happy. He was the number one, and others fell away. At first, I thought nothing of it: I didn’t want him to talk to other girls so why should I have guy friends? He didn’t like the music I listened to, so I trashed my cd collection. When he complained about my clothes, I happily opted for clothing that fit more of what he liked. He was crazy about me, and of course, he didn’t want any other guys trying to get my attention. This was real love and commitment. What kind of girlfriend would I be to not oblige?
In hindsight, the signs were blaring, but I was too blinded to see myself stumbling. After a long weekend with friends, I got into the car to leave feeling deliriously happy to have soaked up time with my favorite people. Just a few minutes down the road, he started in. “Did you notice your friends didn’t talk to you as much as normal this weekend?” Brad began. “It seemed like you were left out. Are you sure they really wanted us there?” The exhilaration at a perfect weekend gave way to doubt and uncertainty. “I’m just trying to look out for you.”
There is so much more I could share about how I walked right into what turned out to be an emotionally and mentally abusive relationship. Even typing that now, so many years later, heightens my senses and puts me on alert. Our relationship lasted three years and during that time I slowly went from blissfully happy and in love to anxiety-ridden. I tried desperately to become what he wanted, but was often told how I couldn’t do anything right and was so lucky he was willing to deal with me. My body was mocked and ridiculed as “cow” became a common nickname. He liked my hair a certain way, I dressed appropriately, and was reminded constantly how worthless I was. I was coerced into doing whatever he asked for fear he would leave me. I was hit a few times as punishment for doing something he wasn’t happy with. All along he was the star: the tall, dark, and handsome boy next door and I just felt lucky to stand next to him.
In my case, I got out of the relationship, but only when he ended it. At the time I was devastated because I did truly believe that no one else would want or love me. I struggled to deal with the extreme anxiety of hearing from him every now and then via text, but it wasn’t to say hi: it was almost to keep tabs on me. About a year after our breakup, the messages also ended. In hindsight, I can’t say if he really knew what he was doing, or how it damaged me. I would hope so, but on the other hand, I know I didn’t know myself, and I never discussed what was happening with him. It wasn’t until I sought out therapy a few years later and heard my therapist use the term “abuse” that it clicked, and even then it took a long time to register that I was once in an abusive relationship. What I experienced pales in comparison to what many other women have. Regardless of the severity, it isn’t ok and no one has the right to treat you with anything other than respect.
Evan Rachel Wood recently came forward publicly naming Marilyn Manson as someone who abused and brainwashed her for years. The story brought me to tears because brainwash is exactly the word that fits in abuse. Never did I doubt my ex; never did I think I was being abused. I thought I just wasn’t enough. Fast forward what feels like lifetimes later: I have a wonderful husband that I love. He is my rock: strong and steady but kind and protective. I have beautiful children who I will spend my life teaching how to treat others. Everything I was told I would never have or be encompasses my daily life. I have rebuilt myself. I am much stronger and more independent. Still, to this day, only my husband and therapist know the details of my experience, and I have no desire for anyone else to know. While it may explain a lot to others, I want to move forward as a better person and take the credit for rising above those circumstances. I am loved. I am worthy. And I am deserving of all the happiness in the world.


Majority rule White House confident Joe Biden’s crusade has hit back at President Donald Trump’s assaults on him while he was in Japan throughout the end of the week.
Amid a public interview in Tokyo on Monday, Mr Trump said he concurred with North Korea when it called Mr Biden a “low IQ person”.
The Biden battle reacted that the president’s remarks were “underneath the nobility of the workplace”.
Mr Biden is the present leader to confront Mr Trump in one year from now’s race.
Safeguarding his remarks in a tweet on Tuesday, the US president seemed to propose that he had been liberal when citing the North Korean pioneer Kim Jong-un’s depiction of Mr Biden.
“[Mr Kim] considered him a ‘low IQ blockhead’,” Mr Trump composed, including that he was “really staying up” for Mr Biden with a less hostile depiction of him.
Amid his four-day visit to Japan, Mr Trump neglected the old Cold War aphorism that US legislative issues stop at the water’s edge.
The Republican president said on Twitter that he had “grinned” when Mr Kim called Mr Biden “a low IQ individual, and more awful”.
All through the excursion, Mr Trump kept on coordinating agrees at the previous US VP, whom he calls “Drowsy Joe”.
Mr Biden’s battle chief Kate Bedingfield said in an announcement on Tuesday: “To be on outside soil, on Memorial Day, and to side over and over with a lethal tyrant against a kindred American and previous VP justifies itself.”


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Bringing Ratatouille to your dinner table for meatless Monday! With colorful layers of fresh veggies, and garlicky tomato sauce
15 minutes meal - Jamie Oliver Classic ratatouille - Makes A LOT. Will cut it in half next time
Ratatouille sounds fancy and complicated, but it is actually a fast, easy and flavorful meal that is perfect for weeknight dinners!
This one pan ratatouille is the perfect meatless recipe! You can use whatever vegetables you have on hand to create an easy healthy dinner!
Baked Ratatouille | Get Down With Your Fancy Self And Make This Delicious Ratatouille
Easy, Healthy Ratatouille (gluten free, vegan, paleo)
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Displacement Pipetters: Their Care and Use
These instruments have been developed in recent years and have been valuable in manipulating tiny volumes, particularly of solutions of DNA and enzymes used in genetic engineering. They function by drawing fluid into the pipet tip using a thumb-driven piston whose movement is calibrated to draw up a specified volume of liquid. The units of volume are in microliters (µL), also termed lambdas ( l). Since there are a million µLs in a liter, 0.1 mL is 100 µL. The plastic disposable tip is discarded after a single use. The tips are color coded according to their capacity: white for 10 µL, yellow for up to 200 µL, and blue for up to 1000 µL.
The advantage of single-use disposable tips in genetic engineering is that there is no possibility of contamination with endonucleases which would destroy DNA samples. Also, the tips are much less expensive than single-use pipettes. However, the instruments are very expensive (about $200 each), and must be handled and cared for properly. NEVER allow fluid up into the body of the pipetter.
Illustrate a displacement pipette and include all of the following features:
blow out stop
volume of aliquot (in window) capacity range indication
thumb knob (to adjust volume)
tip ejector button
- Select the pipetter whose range is appropriate for the volume you wish to measure out.
2. Set the volume as follows:
a. Loosen the lock ring at the base of the thumb plunger.
b Rotate the thumb knob until the desired number of µL appears in the window . [Do not go above the specified range of
the pipetter or you may damage the instrument.]
c. Snug the lock ring. (Do not over-tighten.)
3. Attach a fresh tip to the pipetter:
a: Open the box of sterile tips.
b: Press the pipetter firmly down onto one of the tips, tap once or twice to firm the fitting.
c: Pull out the attached tip, immediately close the box to maintain sterility.
4. Draw up the desired volume of fluid:
a: Before you insert the tip into the sample solution, gently depress the plunger to the first (calibrated) stop and hold in
place. DO NOT GO PAST THE CALIBRATED STOP.
b: Insert the pipetter into the sample solution so that the tip is about 3 mm below the surface.
c: Allow the plunger to slowly and smoothly return to its original position. Note that fluid is drawn up into the tip (no
bubbles). DO NOT LET FLUID ENTER PIPETTER BODY.
d: Withdraw the pipetter from the sample vessel, flame and re-cap vessel to maintain sterility.
- Deliver the fluid into the receiving vessel:
a: Insert the pipet into the receiving vessel so that the tip a: is 3 mm below the surface of the receiving fluid, or b: touches
the bottom of the empty vessel.
b: Depress the plunger slowly and smoothly until the first stop is felt.
c: Press more firmly on the thumb plunger to blow out the remainder of fluid. You should see a bubble expelled.
KEEP THE PLUNGER HELD DOWN.
d: Withdraw the pipetter from the vessel, dragging it along the side to leave any adhered fluid.
e: Allow the plunger to return to its normal position.
6. Discard the used tip (unless you are to deliver additional aliquots of the same fluid):
a: Hold the pipetter over a discard vessel.
b: Depress the tip eject button with the thumb until the tip is ejected
PRACTICE USING THE PIPETTER’S FEATURES
Per desk for practice by two students:
2 20-200 uL pipetters
2+ non-sterile tips in a tray
test tube rack with:
2 13 × 100 mm test tubes, half full of water
4 13 × 100 mm test tubes, empty
- Unlock the lock ring, select the volume by rotating the thumb knob. Do NOT exceed the range of the pipet as indicated on the handle top. Relock (gently).
- Gently press the plunger to the first calibrated stop, press more firmly to feel the blow out stop.
- Pick up a tip from a non-sterile practice box by tapping the pipetter firmly into the tip, then return tip to a different hole in the box, ejecting the tip by pressing the tip ejector button.
- Set the pipetter to 100 µL, and draw up this volume of dH2O, deliver into a clean test tube. Change setting to 10 µL, deliver to a second clean test tube. Note how small a volume this is.
Serial Dilution Pipetting Practice
Serial dilutions are regularly used in microbiology when, for instance,initial concentrations of bacteria are orders of magnitude too high to perform a plate count, or for producing a series of regular dilutions as intitering serum. It has two advantages:
- It allows for rapid achievement of a very high dilution factor.
- It requires a relatively small volume of diluent.
It involves a sequential series of dilutions performed as follows:
1. Equal measured volumes of diluentare placed in each of a labeled series of test tubes.
2. A small aliquot ofthe specimen sample is placed in the first tube and mixed.
3. A small aliquot of that dilution is removed with a fresh pipet and added to the second tube.
4. The second tube is then mixed, and an aliquot from it is transferred to the third tube in like manner.
5. The process is continued until the series of dilutions has been completed (a serial dilution).
Notice that the concentration decreases exponentially as the dilution series progresses In the following example, the relative concentrations are 16, 8, 4, 2, and 1. Dilutions of antibodies orserumfor titering are prepared in much the same fashion.
See handout on Dilutions for in-depth explanation of dilutions and sample problems. The handout on sterile delivery with pippettes describes pipette use.
Illustrate the serial dilution process in your notebook with labeled tubes and volumes involved so that you fully understand what you will be doing before you begin the exercise.
Per table of two students,each performing his or her own experiment:
eight 16 x 150 mm tubes
two test tube racks, larger, fingered
eight 5 mL pipettes in 1000 mL beaker
two 16 x 150 mm tubes, with 7 mL MB solution
one Brinkman Pipetor or pipet bulb
one vortex mixer
one spectrophotometer , warmed up
two cuvettes in plastic test tube rack:
Blank with 3 mL dH2O (marked “B”)
one used pipet receptacle (plastic is best)
7 mL of 0.0005 % methylene blue 1 perstudent
(A609 = about 1.00)
distilled water diluent in a repipet, set for 3 mL
Turn on spectrophotometer to warm up.
Set up your work bench with required equipment.
Label the test tube with theoriginal solutionof methylene blue “16x.” Set up four empty 16 x 150 mL dilutiontubesin a test tube rack. Label the tubes 8x, 4x, 2x and 1x toindicate therelative concentration of dye which they will contain.
Aliquot 3.00 mL of dH2O into each of these four labeled dilution tubes, using are pipet. Here is an alternative style repipet.
Brinkman Pipet Bulb To use the Brinkman Pipet Bulb (click on the image to the left for a labeled version): 1. Squeeze air out of bulb to create a partial vacuum
2. Insert a pipet into the pipet recepticle
3. Place tip of pipet well into the liquid
4. Push lever up to draw fluid above desired calibration line. DO NOT DRAW FLUID INTO BULB!
5. Press level down to deliver fluid to new container
6. Press bulb to blow out last of the liquid from the pipet.
Using the pipet bulb, transfer3.00 mL of the original 16x methylene blue solution from tube #16into tube #8, vortex #8 tube to mix well.
(NOTE: If using a 5 mL pipet, 3 mL are contained when themeniscusis just touching the 2 calibration line. You should be leavingabout4 mL in tube #16.
After vortexing, use a cleanpipet to withdraw3.00 mL from tube #8, add it to #4. Mix as before, using a vortex.
Using a clean pipet, withdraw3.00 mL fromtube #4, add it to #2. Mix as before. Here the class isperforming severalof the stages of the serial dilution.
Using a clean pipet, withdraw3.00 mL fromtube #2, add it to #1. Mix as before. When dilutions are done, 3mLshould remain in tubes #8, #4 and #2. Tube #1 should contain 6 mL.
READ AND PLOT THE ABSORBENCY OF THE DILUTION SERIES:
Read the A609 of each dilution against a blank of distilled water. Begin with tube #1,and work yourway up. In this way, you need not wash the cuvette each time, but touch off the last drop before adding the next dilution.
Plot a graph with the relative concentration of methylene blue(indicated by the tubenumber) as the ordinate (X axis) and absorbency at 609 nm as theabscissa(Y axis). Use the blank tube (zero methylene blue with an A609= 0.000) as your first (zero) point.
[It is puzzling that this curvedoesnot strictly adhere to Beer’s law (it should be linear), as ifconcentrated methylene blue absorbs more proportionately thandilute. Do YOU know why this descrepency?]
1Stock solution of methylene blueis 0.3%: Dilute it 0.166 mL into 100 mL in dH2O to produce ~A609of 1.000.
Sterile Technique: Delivery of Liquids by Pipette
Pasteur observed that once a medium is sterilized, it remains sterile unless contaminated from an external source. He used this observation to reject spontaneous generation but it also lays the foundation for sterile (or aseptic) technique, a technique crucial to microbiology and medicine. Several practices are important to the success of this technique:
- Sterilize the instruments and keep them that way: keep instruments off possibly contaminated surfaces, and flame them to incinerate loose material which might fall off. Never lie pipets down on the surface of a workbench.
- Sterilize the field where work is to be performed with 70% EtOH.
- Exclude airborne contamination: keep containers covered as much as possible
- Minimize drafts: no breathing, coughing, etc over sterile materials.
Mastering sterile technique is one of the most important prerequisites to working in a microbiological lab. While the steps may seem overly detailed in the following narrative, early care in learning proper technique establishes good technique for the rest of your life. Compare these detailed steps with the demonstration given by the professor. Patience pays off. Go slowly at the beginning, and verbally (not physically) assist your fellow students as they work through the steps.
- Write out the procedure which you plan to perform in your notebook. Indicate how the sample was prepared and volumes to be transferred. Construct a table of plates to be spread, with plate number, specimen, plate type, dilution factor, aliquot, and two empty columns for colonies counted and final calculated numbers. Label tubes or plates appropriately.
- Loosen all caps, mentally review the steps you will be performing and arrange materials to ensure they are available and easily accessible.
- Select the appropriate pipet for volume to be delivered, and set the volume to be transferred by rotating the plunger. Pick up a sterile tip, reclose the lid on the box of tips immediately.
- Hold displacement pipetter so that the thumb operates the plunger and you keep your little finger on the pipetting hand free for grasping the cap of the vessel.
- Pick up specimen vessel with other hand, grip cap of vessel with little finger of pipet hand and twist the vessel and pull it down away from the cap. Do not lay the cap down.
- Flame lip of vessel.
USING THE PIPET:
- Pass sterile pipet through flame. (Very briefly so that the plastic tip is not melted…)
- DRAW UP SPECIMEN: Immerse tip of pipet 1/2 cm below surface of liquid, brace in place by gently pressing pipet against the lip of the tube while drawing the fluid up. To avoid bubbles, draw the fluid slowly into the tip by slowly raising your thumb.
- TRANSFER ALIQUOT: Touch off excess fluid from tip of pipet, tilt pipet horizontally to prevent dribbling during transfer. (The fluid will draw up slightly into the tip pipet.)
- Reflame the lip of specimen vessel, screw it back into the cap, set vessel down.
- DELIVER ALIQUOT: Pick up receiving vessel. Remove its cap and flame its lip (as in steps 5 and 6). Insert pipet, return to vertical, deliver desired volume, remove pipet, flame lip, replace cap, discard tip into used pipet container for sterilization.


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No matter how big or small your dog is, you may be thinking of making the switch from high-calorie treats to something healthier and less expensive. But just because something is natural, doesn’t mean it’s always good for you – or your dog.
While fruits and vegetables aren’t necessary if you’re already feeding your furry friend quality commercial food. However, they do make excellent treats that are tasty and low in calories.
These are a great alternative, especially for the dog who is always hungry, no matter how much you feed him. Frozen vegetables can be a great option for pups that need to lay off the biscuits for a while – hey even dogs need to go on a diet sometime.
Most fruits and vegetables are safe for dogs to eat. Because our canine friends are natural omnivores, they eat a variety of foods. So, which fruit and veggie treats are safe – and not safe – for your dog? Vet Street shares some tips.
“Best in Show” Fruits/Veggies for Dogs
- Green beans
- Cooked sweet potato
- Apples (without seeds)
- Bananas (offering frozen bananas keeps the squishy mess to a minimum)
Worst Fruits/Veggies for Dogs
- Onions, garlic, leeks or chives (members of the Allium family) — these contain organosulfoxides, which are toxic to pets; cooking does not reduce their toxicity potential
- Grapes or raisins — can cause illness and kidney damage
- Raw potatoes
- Wild mushrooms
- Apple cores with seeds (also avoid seeds from other fruits, such as watermelon)
- Stone fruits — for their potential to cause choking
- Rhubarb leaves (the stems are safe)
While you’ll find plenty of treat options in the produce aisle, it’s important to remember that any fruit or vegetable can be harmful if eaten in large quantities. So always feed new treats in moderation. While most produce is okay for your dog to eat, not all of it is. Some foods are toxic to your dog, or can cause gastrointestinal disturbances. Be sure to see the complete list on the ASPCA website to avoid a preventable mishap.
Remember to keep your fruit and veggie treats to 10% or less of your pet’s diet. And be sure to thoroughly wash all produce and remove all pits or rinds before feeding it to your dog. (Don’t let them eat right from the tree!)
So, if you’re looking for a healthier, economical treat option for your dog, consider adding fresh fruits and vegetables to your pup’s diet. Just remember if you are ever in doubt, always consult with your vet first to make sure the food is safe for your pet to eat.


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Don’t miss this one! Mark this as something you don’t see every day but we want to share Baby Yoda Waffle Maker on Sale for you! So if you are a fan of The Mandalorian show on Disney+ then check this out! Make sure you check out all the online deals we have posted!
Baby Yoda Waffle Maker on Sale
The Mandalorian series has been so popular with kids and adults! We keep seeing so many great products with Baby Yoda on it. That’s why I wanted to share something for all the waffle lovers out there! Gamestop (yes Gamestop sells appliances) has Star Wars: The Mandalorian The Child Waffle Maker available for Pre-Order! This is only available through Game Stop so I predict these will sell out fast! It makes sense to Preorder yours to ensure you get one! It’s expected to ship on 9/05!
Super Mario Mushroom Waffle Maker on Sale
Super Mario fans can add a bit of fun to their breakfast with the Super Mario Mushroom Waffle Maker! Game Stop has it on sale for $27.99 (was $34.99)! Just pour in the batter and let it cook. I think these would make a great gift for the Super Mario fans out there!


2018 World Health Day: Delta Government To Achieve Universal Health Coverage
The Delta State Government has reiterated its commitment to achieving Universal Health Coverage through its relevant health policies as contained in its SMART Agenda.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi Ononye, gave the disclosure in a statement as part of activities to mark the 2018 World Health Day in Asaba over the weekend.
He said that the relevant health policies as captured in the SMART Agenda is geared towards improving the efficiency and responsiveness of health system to the needs of the citizenry and also focuses on making available the resources required for efficient service delivery.
According to the Commissioner, The theme for the 2018 World Health Day is Universal Health Coverage for everyone, everywhere and the slogan is ‘health for all’.
He explained that Universal Health Coverage is the situation where all people and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship and that it enables everyone to access the services that address the most important causes of disease and death and ensures that the quality of those services is good enough to improve the health of the people who receive them.
The establishment of the Delta State Contributory Health Commission through the Executive Bill sent to the State House of Assembly and dully passed, set the stage for the implementation of the healthcare financing scheme that has a significant potential to guarantee universal access to healthcare and the roll-out continued with engagement of stakeholders and partners to ensure that all Deltans are provided with universal access to health he said.
The Health Commissioner revealed that the World Health Organization is using this year’s celebration which happens to be the 70th anniversary of the international body to call on world leaders to live up to the pledges they made when they agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, and commit to concrete steps to advance the health of all people thereby ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access essential quality health services without facing financial hardship.
To improve the services provided in the government health facilities, the Commissioner said that plans are in advance stage to connect all the headquarters of the medical zones in the State to 33KVA transformer which no doubt will lead to stead power supply and bring immense benefits to the facilities and clients and also that government has selected some hospitals for rehabilitation/renovation.