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Box for Inkstone and Writing Implements (Suzuribako) with Geese against Mount Fuji in Moonlight and (inner lid) with Plovers by the Seashore
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Japan's most famous scenic view is rendered here in finely sprinkled gold and silver of varied grades. Seen beneath a full moon, the distant bird's-eye perspective encompasses Mount Fuji rising above clouds beyond a vast landscape. A formation of geese confirms the autumnal note of the moon; the pine-studded sandbar in the foreground waters evokes Miho no Matsubara, a nearby scenic place often associated with views of Fuji.
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The second generation under China’s one-child policy
Living under the care of six adults – two parents and four grandparents – the du er dai are even more pampered and spoiled than their parents, who used to be "the little emperor" in their families. Without cousins and siblings, the only kid in the family is lonely and egocentric. According to a China News report, because their parents want more time alone, the du er dai often live with their grandparents. Over-indulged by their elders, the children know nothing about sharing and are bad-tempered when their parents try to reason with them. Some parents say their children are smart but their emotional quotients are rather low.
China introduced the one-child policy in 1978. People born in the 1980s are the first generation of the birth control policy. Now, a number of people from that generation have become parents, so it is a never-before-seen phenomenon to have the two single-child generations living under one roof.


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Future possibilities in the prevention of breast cancer: Fat and fiber and breast cancer research
Breast Cancer Research volume 2, Article number: 268 (2000)
The potential for a reduction in dietary fat or for an increase in dietary fiber to reduce breast cancer risk has been debated for some years. It is argued here that available research data, even though extensive, leave open hypotheses ranging from little or no potential to major public health potential for breast cancer prevention by means of these dietary maneuvers. Some elements of a research strategy for testing these and other dietary breast cancer prevention hypotheses are described.
The hypothesis that a reduction in dietary fat in Western populations will lead to reductions in breast cancer risk has been promulgated for some decades. Its evaluation has been the goal of considerable research, and subject to considerable controversy (for example [1*,2*]). In effect, the testing of this hypothesis has become a prominent test case in a debate over the study designs and research strategies that are needed to obtain reliable information in the broader research area of diet and chronic disease. On the one hand, some evidently believe that reliable information on the fat and breast cancer relationship can be based on self-reported diet in the context of observational studies. This perspective led investigators involved in a recent pooled analysis of cohort studies of fat consumption and breast cancer risk [3*] to conclude that 'In the context of the Western lifestyle, lowering the total intake of fat in midlife is unlikely to reduce the risk of breast cancer substantially.' On the other hand, the US National Institutes of Health-sponsored Women's Health Initiative clinical trial [4*] is about half way to completion. This Initiative includes a randomized controlled clinical trial, one component of which is to assess the impact of a 'low-fat-eating pattern' on the incidence of breast cancer and colorectal cancer (and coronary heart disease secondarily) among 48 837 postmenopausal women in the USA. The existence of this large, complex intervention trial reflects the view of others that the hypothesis that a low-fat-eating pattern helps to prevent breast cancer is worth testing, and that observational studies alone may not be able to provide sufficiently reliable information on the fat and breast cancer association, regardless of their size or duration.
The hypothesis that the increased consumption of dietary fiber may reduce breast cancer risk has also existed for some decades. The relationship between estimated fiber consumption and breast cancer risk has been examined in a number of observational studies [5*]. Also, the low-fat-eating pattern targeted in the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial [4*] includes modest increases in fruit and vegetable consumption, and in grain consumption, in addition to its major reduction in percentage of energy from fat from customary levels of about 35% to a targeted 20%.
Various meta-analyses and reviews of studies pertinent to these hypotheses have been published, precluding the need for a study-by-study review here. The reported observational study associations of fat and fiber with breast cancer appear to be inconsistent among study designs, however, contributing to the previously mentioned controversy. The focus of this review, then, is on the strengths, weaknesses and interpretation of available data, and on aspects of a research agenda that may help to bring clarity to this important area, and clarity to the assessment of other diet, nutrition, and chronic disease prevention hypotheses.
Experimental studies in rodents dating back to the 1940s  pointed to the ability of a high-fat diet to promote the development of mammary tumors, with the possibility that certain polyunsaturated fats may be particularly effective promoters . A question ensued  as to whether fat specifically, or energy more generally, explained such promotion. A meta-analysis [9*] of data from rodent feeding studies confirmed a substantial role for calorie restriction in inhibiting mammary tumorigenesis, but also revealed an important role for fat reduction beyond that attributable to the corresponding energy reduction.
Beginning in the 1960s various groups [10,11,12,13*] examined the relationship between national estimates of the per capita supply of fat and the corresponding rates of breast cancer incidence or mortality, or the relationship between changes in per capita fat supply and corresponding changes in breast cancer rates [13*]. These correlational analyses suggest that dietary fat may have an important link to human breast cancer risk. For example, Prentice and Sheppard [13*] presented regression analyses of breast cancer incidence rates on per capita fat supply using data from 21 countries worldwide that have nationally representative cancer incidence data. These analyses suggest that a 50% reduction in fat consumption in the USA could eventually lead to a breast cancer risk reduction by a factor of about 0.39 among women in the age range 55-69 years and by a factor of about 0.53 among women in the 30-44 years age range. Moreover, the supply of nonfat calories did not contribute further to an explanation for the variations in international breast cancer rates, and neither did per capita gross national product, as a general potential confounding factor related to national development. Very similar relative risk estimates arose from analyses in a subset of these countries that regressed changes in breast cancer incidence rates on corresponding changes in per capita fat supply from a time point about 5 years earlier [13*].
Migrant studies have considerable potential to contribute to fat and breast cancer hypothesis generation, but few such studies have included pertinent dietary data. Nonetheless, the substantial breast cancer case-control study of Ziegler et al [14*] among Asian-American women of age 55 years or younger pointed to the 'crucial importance of lifestyle and environment in the etiology of this disease.' In fact those investigators observed a sixfold gradient in breast cancer risk across migration patterns. Among migrants with a single move from East to West, the relative risk estimates were 0.32, 0.40, 0.72, 0.66 and 0.59 for 2-4, 5-7, 8-14, 15-21, and ≥ 22 years lived in the West, respectively, as compared with women who had always lived in the West, suggesting noteworthy changes in risk within the first decade after migration. Moreover, those investigators did not detect a trend in risk as a function of age at migration through 35 years of age, suggesting that recent exposures may be particularly relevant to breast cancer risk. Exposures that may contribute to this sixfold relative risk trend include hormonal, anthropometric and reproductive factors, most of which are diet related to some extent.
The compelling evidence that circulating estrogens influence breast cancer risk [15,16,17,18] has prompted study of the influence of dietary intervention on endogenous estrogen levels. Wu et al [19*] recently reported a meta-analysis of 13 intervention trials that examined changes in estradiol levels subsequent to dietary fat reduction. Those investigators calculated estradiol reductions (95% confidence intervals) of -7.4% (-11.7 to -2.9%) among premenopausal women and -23.0% (-27.7 to -18.1%) among postmenopausal women. The greatest estradiol reductions occurred in two studies in which dietary fat was reduced to 10-12% of calories, but significant reductions remained when the analysis was restricted to the remaining studies, which had energy from fat in the range of 18-25%. Some of the dietary interventions studied involved increased fiber in addition to fat reduction, but reductions in estradiol levels were found in studies with low, medium, and high fiber intake. Other studies [20,21] have shown reductions in blood estradiol with increases in fiber intake without change in percentage energy from fat. Any such reduction, however, may depend on the type of fiber; for example, wheat bran versus oat or corn bran, and on fiber solubility.
Although the effects of dietary intervention on blood estrogens are of considerable interest, they do not allow one to assert a corresponding effect of dietary intervention on breast cancer in view of the many other biological effects that may result from dietary change. Also, the intervention trials that examined these changes in exogenous estrogens tended to be of, at most, a few months in duration, during which the women studied may have experienced some weight loss, reducing the ability to project dietary intervention effects on hormone concentrations in the longer term.
The conduct of analytic epidemiologic studies to relate individual nutrient consumption to corresponding breast cancer occurrence constitutes a logical step in the evaluation of the fat, fiber, and breast cancer hypotheses. There have been many such studies during the past 25 years. Initially most were case-control studies, but by now there are several large cohort studies as well. Although studies of these types could attempt to examine reductions in fat and increases in fiber in relation to breast cancer risk, perhaps using migrant populations, to date essentially all have chosen to associate current or recent nutrient intake with breast cancer risk. Furthermore, all have relied upon self-reported food intake, often in the form of food frequency data in conjunction with a nutrient database, to estimate each individual's consumption of fat, fiber, and other nutrients.
Unfortunately there are substantial obstacles to finding clear and interpretable relationships in this type of study for several reasons. In increasing order of importance, these include the following.
Current or recent nutrient intakes may differ from those over the years or decades pertinent to breast cancer risk, likely attenuating any fat, fiber, and breast cancer association.
Certain nutrient intakes in Western populations may not be highly variable, despite the variety of foods available; for example, at present the vast majority of Americans probably have dietary energy from fat in the range 27-40%, resulting in modest relative risk gradients within study populations, even if the nutrient exposures are important risk factors.
The diet is a complex mixture of foods and nutrients including many highly correlated elements; even if the nutrient exposures of interest could be measured exactly, it may be a formidable task to estimate the relationship between a specific nutrient, such as fat or fiber, and breast cancer risk, while accommodating other dietary factors.
Dietary patterns may relate in a complicated manner to other breast cancer risk factors, including anthropometric measures, reproductive factors and physical activity patterns; hence, there is potential for confounding (or over-control), which may be unavoidable for such difficult-to-measure exposures as physical activity patterns.
Key measurement properties of existing dietary self-report instruments are unknown, even in the populations in which these instruments have been applied.
There have been a number of meta-analyses of the published fat and breast cancer association studies. For a fairly recent example, Boyd et al  calculated a summary relative risk estimate (95% confidence interval) of 1.12 (1.04-1.21) for the highest versus lowest fat intake categories used in the reporting of 23 epidemiologic studies, including 16 case-control and seven cohort studies. However, the summary relative risk estimate from the case-control studies was 1.21 (1.10-1.34), which is quite different from that (1.01 [0.90-1.13]) from the cohort studies.
It is fortunate that the individual level data from most of these studies have been assembled for standardized analyses. Howe et al [5*] carried out a combined analysis of 12 case-control studies involving 4427 breast cancer cases and 6095 control individuals, about two-thirds of whom were postmenopausal. Table 1 shows their summary postmenopausal breast cancer relative risk estimates across the total fat intake categories defined by the quintiles of one of the Canadian case-control studies. A highly significant trend (P = 0.0002) was reported. The relative risk trend was much less pronounced among pre-menopausal women and was not statistically significant (P = 0.21). Table 1 also shows relative risks projected from the international correlational analyses. These projections [23*] are based on a regression of log-breast cancer incidence in the age range 55-69 years on log-total fat, and assume a classical measurement model for food frequency and 4-day food record assessments of log-fat intake. The projections actually apply to the intake quintiles of the baseline food frequency data in the Women's Health Trial , which differ little from those from the Canadian study quintiles used by Howe et al [5*]. A close correspondence between the case-control and the international data estimates can be seen. Howe et al commented further that there was no evidence that nonfat sources of energy were associated with breast cancer risk, after allowing for total fat, in their analyses.
Hunter et al [3*] provided a pooled analysis of seven cohort studies including 4980 breast cancer cases out of 337819 women. Summary relative risk estimates were presented across quintiles of calorie-adjusted fat intake, based on food frequency dietary assessments, and are shown in Table 1. The breast cancer risk did not show a significant trend (P = 0.21) across intake categories. Table 1 also shows corresponding relative risk projections from international correlational analyses, again with measurement error acknowledged using a classical measurement model. The projection categories are based on baseline food frequency percentage energy from fat from the Women's Health Trial, which are likely to differ little from the calorie-adjusted fat categories used in the pooled cohort analyses. The projections are based on international breast cancer rates for the age range 55-69 years, so that these could be reduced somewhat to acknowledge the inclusion of premenopausal women in the pooled cohort analyses. Note the difference between observed and projected relative risks in the upper categories of calorie-adjusted fat intake.
In fact, the relative risk estimates and projections shown in Table 1 apparently capture the basis for the controversy over the fat and breast cancer hypothesis. Population scientists are accustomed to viewing cohort studies as the most reliable of the observational study strategies. It can therefore be argued (for example [2*,3*]) that dietary fat reduction is unlikely to reduce breast cancer risk meaningfully among middle-aged and older women, on the basis of the following factors: the cohort study lack of association noted in Table 1; the possibility of selection or recall biases in the case-control studies [25,26]; a lack of ability to control confounding in international correlational analysis; a lack of clarity of implications of low-fat intervention effects on endogenous hormones; and a lack of direct relevance of animal feeding experiments.
On the other hand one can regard these data sources as supportive of an important fat and breast cancer relationship, and can question the extent to which the cohort analyses provide contrary evidence. Certainly the relative risk trend projected from international correlational analyses (Table 1) is modest enough to be well within the range that may not be reliably detected in observational studies, regardless of their size, on the basis of the reasons listed above. Among these reasons, the impact of measurement error in dietary assessment is the least well understood, and is most crucial to the interpretation of both the cohort and case-control studies. Often in the reporting of these studies the authors will write words to the effect that analyses were conducted that correct for measurement error in dietary assessment (for example [3*]) and that this correction did not alter study findings. It is important to understand the assumptions that underlie such measurement error adjustments.
Available measurement error methods require a nutrient consumption assessment that estimates the quantity of interest aside from an additive error that must be independent of the targeted quantity and of other study subject characteristics. To be specific, let Z represent a woman's average daily total fat intake (or percent energy from fat) over a time period pertinent to breast cancer risk (eg the preceding decade). One needs to assume that an estimate (X 1) is available, at least on a subsample of the study population, such that:
X 1 = Z + e 1 (1)
Where the error term 'e 1' is assumed to be independent of the 'true' intake Z, so that women with high fat consumption are no more likely to underestimate their fat intake than are women consuming less fat. Also the measurement error e 1 is typically assumed to be independent of such study subject characteristics or exposures as ethnicity, age, physical activity patterns or body mass. These assumptions are typically applied to data from food records or recalls collected on a small subsample of study subjects. Self-report data using a less expensive and less comprehensive food frequency questionnaire are obtained for all study subjects. The most flexible measurement model for the food frequency estimate of fat that has been used in these studies supposes that the food frequency estimate 'X 2' can be written:
X 2 = Z * + e 2 (2)
where 'Z *' is a variable that is positively correlated with Z, and where the error term 'e 2' is independent of Z * and independent of other study subject characteristics and, importantly, is independent of the error e 1. These assumptions allow X 1 to be used to 'calibrate' the food frequency measure, in that X 2 can be replaced by an estimate of Z given X 2 in relative-risk analysis.
These regression calibration methods (as described for example in ) work well when the measurement error is not too large and the assumptions listed above hold. In the diet and chronic disease area, however, the measurement errors are not small, as can be seen by observing the modest correlations between nutrient intake estimates from multiple self-report instruments at a single point in time (eg about 0.3 for total fat or 0.5 for calorie-adjusted fat), or between repeat applications of the same instrument at different time points (eg in ). Furthermore, there are reasons to suspect strongly that the assumptions that underlie Equations 1 and 2 do not hold for self-reported fat intake.
For example, the self-reporting of dietary habits is thought to depend on social desirability factors [29,30], suggesting that it is unlikely that obese and slim women would have the same measurement error reporting characteristics. The absence of an accepted biomarker of fat intake precludes direct study of the measurement errors in Equations 1 and 2. However, doubly labeled water studies of short-term energy expenditure indicate energy consumption to be substantially under-reported, in the range 25-50%, among obese women with little or no under-reporting among slim women [31*], making it highly probably that fat calories are also greatly under-reported by obese women. Moreover, protein expenditure, as assessed by urinary nitrogen, appeared to be under-reported to a lesser extent than total energy [31*], making it plausible that percentage energy from fat is also substantially under-reported by obese women.
These data indicate that energy or fat intakes from food records (or recalls) do not conform to the assumptions that underlie Equation 1, and hence do not serve as a suitable 'anchor' for calibrating the corresponding food frequency data. Another implication of these data is that measurement errors from food record (Eqn 1) and food frequency (Eqn 2) assessments of fat intake, or calorie adjusted fat intake, may well be positively correlated. For example, an obese woman who underestimates her per capita fat consumption by, say, 50% on food records may also systematically underestimate her fat consumption on a food frequency questionnaire. In this case even the modest correlations (eg 0.3) previously noted between food record and food frequency fat consumption may be due in whole or in part to correlated measurement error, rather than to an ability of these dietary instruments to measure actual fat consumption.
Prentice [23*] carried out some exercises under which the food record and food frequency estimates of total fat, or percentage energy from fat, were allowed to have correlated measurement errors. The international data projected relative risks were very sensitive to such correlation, in that even the modest trends shown in Table 1 could readily be further reduced or distorted. This type of exercise implies that it is necessary to have rather firm information on the measurement characteristics of the food frequency questionnaires in the context of the cohort or case-control studies in order to determine whether the relative risk trends shown in Table 1 differ appreciably from expectation under the generating hypothesis. In other words, one can take the point of view, with the current state of knowledge of the properties of dietary assessment instruments, that cohort studies [3*], in addition to other observational studies, are limited to the extent that even the question of breast cancer association with fat, or percentage of energy from fat, has yet to be answered, let alone the question of fat reduction and breast cancer prevention.
It would seem to be a fact, even after 25 years of data collection and deliberation, that well-intentioned scientists can hold diverse views ranging from the lack of any meaningful potential for a fat reduction to reduce breast cancer risk, to major public health potential, without compelling contradiction from available data. This state of affairs is a testimony to the real methodologic difficulties that pervade this research area.
A number of the observational studies commented on the association between the intake of specific types of fat and breast cancer risk. For example, Howe et al [5*] observed the strongest trends in breast cancer risk with estimated saturated fat, whereas Hunter et al [3*] did not detect a significant trend with any of energy-adjusted saturated, monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats. In comparison, animal experiments  and international correlational analyses [13*] suggest a role for saturated fat, along with a particularly important role for polyunsaturated fat. None of these data can be viewed as compelling for human cancer. In particular, sorting out associations with specific sources of fat in the context of cohort and case-control studies would evidently require exquisite knowledge of the joint measurement characteristics of the assessment instruments with regard to these intakes and the consumption of energy.
The fiber and breast cancer association has received much less attention. Howe et al [5*] reported a significant (P = 0.002) association of estimated dietary fiber and breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women. The association among premenopausal women was similar, but not significant (P = 0.15). These analyses were based on data from the same 12 case-control studies, and included an adjustment for total fat intake. However, whenβ-carotene and vitamin C were added to the postmenopausal breast cancer regression analysis, fiber ceased to be significantly related to breast cancer risk (P = 0.78), whereas vitamin C consumption remained significant. This suggests that the marginal association of breast cancer with fiber intake may be attributable to vitamin C consumption, or to fruit and vegetable consumption more generally, for which some modest evidence for an inverse association exists . On the other hand, self-reported fiber also involves substantial measurement error. For example, Willett et al  reported food frequency and food record correlations of 0.43 for crude fiber, and 0.51 for crude fiber adjusted for energy. Hence, any relative risk trends across fiber consumption categories in observational studies are likely to be much attenuated or distorted, depending on the specific measurement properties of the assessment tools and the joint measurement properties of fiber, fat, energy and pertinent micronutrients. As with fat consumption, objective information on the measurement properties of self-reported fiber consumption, particularly for food frequency assessments, seems a prerequisite to the interpretation of observational study breast cancer relative risk associations. Note also that dietary fiber rather than crude fiber is the preferred fiber assay for nutrition studies, and that dietary and crude fiber may have little or no correlation in specific populations.
There are four randomized controlled intervention trials currently ongoing that are pertinent to breast cancer prevention hypotheses by means of fat reduction or fiber increases. None have reported breast cancer occurrence or recurrence data as yet. Two of these studies aim to prevent breast cancer recurrence or new primary cancers among women with early or intermediate stage breast cancer. The Women's Intervention Nutrition Study  targets a major reduction in dietary fat, whereas the Women's Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Study  emphasizes a plant-based diet that is high in vegetables and fruit. These studies are both in the course of enroling 2500-3000 women. The other two intervention trials focus on the reduction in breast cancer occurrence among women without a personal history of breast cancer. The Canadian trial of Boyd et al  is studying the impact of a low-fat-eating pattern on breast cancer incidence among approximately 9500 premenopausal and postmenopausal women who are at elevated risk for breast cancer on the basis of mammographic dysplasia. The Women's Health Initiative clinical trial [4*], previously mentioned, is studying the effect of a low-fat-eating pattern on the occurrence of breast cancer and selected other diseases among 48837 postmenopausal women in the USA.
These intervention trials have a number of desirable features. First, by virtue of the randomized assignment to intervention or control status, baseline risk factors, whether recognized or not, are statistically independent of intervention assignment, eliminating the problem of confounding by prerandomization factors. Second, the comparison of breast cancer rates between intervention and control women does not involve individual dietary assessment. Third, intervention trials, by introducing a dietary change, have potential to identify practical preventive maneuvers directly. On the other hand, intervention trials tend to be expensive and logistically difficult, and the maintenance of dietary adherence for a sufficient period of time to be able to ascertain clinical outcomes that may be affected beneficially or detrimentally with sufficient precision can be a formidable task. Furthermore, intervention trials by their very nature test a specific intervention or intervention program, so that the effects of specific elements of the intervention may not be able to be reliably studied. For example, the dietary modification component of the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial [4*] has evidently resulted in a major reduction in percentage energy from fat and total fat consumption among intervention women, but, consistent with intervention goals, such women also report increases in the consumption of fruit and vegetables and grains. Analyses to relate these specific changes to breast cancer risk reductions may need to rely on individual self-reports of diet, very much like the association studies reviewed in the preceding section. Note, however, that the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial does directly test a dietary pattern of great public health interest.
Future directions and research opportunities
Measurement properties of the dietary assessment tools used in observational studies play a crucial role in the interpretation of observed relative risk trends and calculation of measurement error-adjusted relative risk trends. Also, self-report assessments of nutrient intakes likely fail to adhere, even approximately, to the measurement error assumptions that attend (Eqn 1). It is therefore natural and important to consider objective measures of nutrient intakes in Equation1 in future observational studies. For example, the American Association of Retired Persons cohort study, which is being coordinated by the US National Cancer Institute, is incorporating a sizeable substudy that includes doubly labeled water assessments of energy expenditure and urinary nitrogen assessments of protein expenditure. Similarly, our group in Seattle is currently piloting a study of objective measures for a broader range of nutrients, including blood fatty acid measures and various blood micronutrient measures, as a precursor to an intended larger objective measures substudy within the Women's Health Initiative.
The concept behind these efforts is that the biologic assessments of nutrient consumption would play a fundamental role in the analysis and reporting of association studies. Specifically, the available self-report measure X 2 in Equation 2 would be replaced by an estimate of Z given X 2 using regression calibration equations.
The measurement properties of the self-report data in application to a specific population may depend on various study subject characteristics, possibly including body mass, ethnicity and age. It may therefore be necessary for the objective measures substudy to be fairly large, perhaps in the order of 1000-2000 women, for one to be able to calibrate in a sufficiently precise and comprehensive manner. Of course, it may be, as for total fat, that potential biomarkers, including blood fatty acid concentrations and profiles, have yet to yield a recognized measure of dietary consumption, in which case the regression calibration approach will only be able to examine the relationship between breast cancer risk and the quantities targeted by the biomarker. The development of objective measures of the consumption of a broader range of nutrients, and the further study of the methods for the design and conduct of objective measure substudies is an important research goal for strengthening the reliability and interpretability of analytic epidemiologic studies of diet and chronic diseases.
This impact of measurement error in dietary assessment is reduced as the ratio of the measurement error variance to the variance of the nutrient intake decreases. Hence, observational studies that aim to include persons who have an unusually broad range of consumption are also taking a useful step. Ongoing cohort studies that incorporate this aspect include the multinational European Prospective Investigation of Cancer study, the multiethnic Pacific Area Cancer Epidemiology study, and the aforementioned American Association of Retired Persons study, which oversampled persons whose reported fat intakes were in the extremes of the fat consumption distribution. Further observational studies of diet and cancer among migrant populations would also appear to have potential to contribute to this research area.
Students of epidemiology may typically be taught a hierarchy of study reliability, ranging from ecologic studies, case-control studies, cohort studies and intervention trials. In a circumstance of difficult-to-measure, highly correlated exposures and difficult-to-measure confounding factors, however, such a hierarchy may not always hold. In particular, well-conducted ecologic studies in which exposures and potential confounding factors are surveyed among moderate-sized random samples in each group of a multipopulation aggregate study are largely immune to the noise aspect of measurement error [36,37] and may be less sensitive to systematic aspects of measurement error, in part because of the ability to incorporate an unusually broad range of exposures. It is not clear how successfully 'between population' confounding can be controlled in such settings, but the challenges and uncertainties of observational studies in the diet and disease area argue for a varied research program, including research designs that have differing sources of potential bias.
There would appear to be a continuing valuable role for small-scale human feeding studies to further develop and refine the fat, fiber, and breast cancer hypotheses. In particular, it may be that blood estradiol, or blood estrogens more generally, is a sufficiently strong intermediate indicator of breast cancer risk that such studies could reasonably attempt to identify practical dietary patterns that involve reductions in foods containing specific types of fat (eg n-6 fatty acids), or increases in foods that are high in certain types of fiber (wheat, oat or corn bran, legumes, vegetables, fruit) and that may have the ability to reduce estradiol concentrations and to retain such reductions. The situation may be complex, however, in view of the apparent profound effect that estrogen-receptor modulation evidently has in determining breast cancer risk [38,39].
It is my opinion that the types of additional studies alluded to above, in conjunction with the results of ongoing breast cancer occurrence and recurrence intervention trials, can do much to clarify the potential for fat reduction and fiber increase to reduce breast cancer risk. Some prominent epidemiologists evidently believe that the fat and breast cancer question, at least, has already been answered. For example, the keynote speaker at the 1999 annual meeting of the US Society for Epidemiologic Research stated gratuitously that 'by now, most thinking people have decided that breast cancer is not related to fat intake.' On the other hand, the same speaker has been quoted  as stating 'People don't take us seriously anymore, and when they do take us seriously, we may unintentionally do more harm than good.' Indeed, the diet and breast cancer hypotheses, and diet and chronic disease hypotheses more generally, are of such public health importance that they demand our best, integrated effort for their resolution. This is prime time for disease prevention research to receive attention from scientists from a broad range of disciplines. For breast cancer in particular, the next few years may provide the opportunity for lifestyle strategies to be developed that can complement the rapidly developing pharmaceutical strategies in the arsenal of prevention options.
The hypothesis that a fat reduction or fiber increase will reduce human breast cancer risk remains to be reliably tested, but is of considerable public health importance. Ongoing intervention trials and a diverse program of observational studies have the potential to resolve this and other important diet and chronic disease prevention issues. Though beyond the scope of this review, the new genetic/genomic data that are rapidly becoming available may also help in resolving these issues, for example by illuminating heterogeneity in diet and disease associations, or by facilitating intervention development and testing.
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Work by the author and cited in the present review was supported by Public Health Service grant CA53996 from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
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Prentice, R.L. Future possibilities in the prevention of breast cancer: Fat and fiber and breast cancer research. Breast Cancer Res 2, 268 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr68
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I drive about 1200 miles/wk, and change every 3000 miles, and have used wally 10w-30 synthetic in my last 3 3800'*. My 89 Regency Brougham had 265,000 when I traded it on a 1995 Royale. The Royale was recently traded with 245,000 on this LSS. Because I change fluids regularly, all had orig eng/tranny..and ran excellent when traded. Both are still in use...the Regency is near 400k, and the Royale is now a local TAXI..
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Parents' fears over the abolition of corporal punishment are unfounded
Instruction in nonviolent means of discipline is more likely than jail time
On October 19, the High Court in Johannesburg ruled that the common-law defence of "moderate and reasonable chastisement" was unconstitutional.
Put simply, the common-law defence which allowed parents to use physical force to discipline their children as long as the force was "moderate" and "reasonable" has been abolished.
This means that the law now affords children the same protection from violence as adults. Corporal punishment, such as smacking, spanking, slapping, shaking and caning children, is no longer allowed in the home.
Proponents of corporal punishment will be quick to argue that the abolishment of the common-law defence will lead to loving parents being criminalised and jailed, and that children will be "out of control" without physical discipline.This fear is unfounded; it is highly unlikely that abandoning the common-law defence will result in increased criminalisation of parents for smacking their children as courts have to consider the best interests of the child in matters that affect the child.
In cases of "moderate" corporal punishment it will generally not be in the best interests of the child to have their parents prosecuted or imprisoned, or for the child to be removed from their family.The prosecution of parents will be reserved for cases where other interventions have failed or for cases of harsh physical discipline.
This is the approach to criminalisation that has been used so far.
The intention of the judgment is to bring the law in line with the constitution and the Children's Act. As pointed out in the high court judgment, one of the objectives of the Children's Act is "to promote positive parenting and positive discipline, rather than to criminalise errant parental behaviour".
The primary approach of a court dealing with parents who have used corporal punishment would therefore be to order the parents to participate in prevention and early intervention programmes, such as parenting programmes.
The change to the common law does not prohibit parental discipline. Parents are still allowed to discipline their children, but not by violent means.
Given that many parents are unaware of alternatives to corporal punishment, we need awareness campaigns and education on positive forms of discipline such as time out, withdrawal of privileges, etcetera, and their effectiveness.
Proponents of corporal punishment also argue that the state cannot "tell me what to do in my home" and that prohibiting this type of discipline violates parents' right to family, freedom of religion and cultural belief.
The argument that the state cannot interfere in people's private lives or homes is incorrect...

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Chisun Inn Fukushima Nishi Ic: Business-friendly hotel with free WiFi and free parking. Located near a train station.
If you're still after a place to stay and finding it tricky, you could investigate the Yoshikawaya or the CHIKUSENSO Mt.Zao Onsen Resort&Spa. The first is 10 kilometres away, while the second is 25 kilometres. And don't forget about the Hotel Sunroute Plaza Fukushima, 16 kilometres away.
It is well known that Australians are pretty laid back, so consider extending your stay and check out the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art and Goshikinuma Lake, which you'll find in Onogawa, 45 kilometres to the southwest of Kunimi-machi. The Kyukamura Ura-Bandai and Urabandai Grandeco Tokyu Hotel are just some of the long and short-stay alternatives in Onogawa. Or, you could consider staying in Numanokura, 50 kilometres to the southwest of Kunimi-machi, where you can choose from the Hotel Listel Inawashiro Main and Hotel Listel Inawashiro Wing Tower. While in Numanokura, be sure to explore Bandai 3D World and Mount Bandai.
Koriyama is positioned 55 kilometres away from Kunimi-machi. While you are in the area, be sure to explore the Koriyama City Museum of Art, Hagaike Park and Aeon Retail Shopping Center. You can also check out the Koriyama City Fureai Science Museum and Motomachi Ryokuchi Park. Should you wish to stay in Koriyama, check out the rates and amenities at the Hotel Wing International Sukagawa and Hotel Route-Inn Koriyama Inter.
Hotels in Kunimi-machi start at AU$79 per night. Prices and availability subject to change. Additional terms may apply.

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●Gene fusion technique, GST, MBP, etc. ○Gene fusion technique: the gene encoding the protein of interest is fused to a second gene encoding a protein that is easily purified by affinity chromatography. The second protein is the “tag”.○This encodes a large protein that consists of the protein of interest fused to the tag protein. And these 2 proteins are often separated by a linker of amino acids, this provides a protease cleavage site that can be used to separate the tag from the protein of interest.○Examples of tags:■GST (glutathione-S-transferase): Used to purify GST by binding it to bound GSH and eluted with GSH.■MBP (maltose-binding protein):Binds to column with bound maltose and eluted with maltose■Enhance solubility: GST,Trx,MBP,NusChapter 9 - SDS-PAGE, Protein Visualization, and Band Quantification●SDS-PAGE (Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis):○This was developed to allow proteins to separate on molecular weight alone. By adding Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate, a detergent, amino acids are covered in an overwhelming negative charge, the charge to mass ratio is identical for all proteins. ○Purpose:To determine the approximate molecular weight of the protein of interest ○SDS and heat:Breaks weak interactions and causes the protein to unfold and linearize ○β-Me:Breaks the disulfide bonds. ●Mechanism of separation, direction of current/movement of bands, large vs. small proteins ○Since all proteins are now covered in a negative charge, they will migrate to the positive electrode (anode) based on size alone, the smaller proteins will migrate the fastest, while the larger proteins will migrate the slowest in the gel. ●Gradient gels: purpose, differences ○Stacking gel:is cast on top of the resolving gel, has about 5% acrylamide. Samples migrate quickly creating a narrow band before reaching the resolving gel so proteins are presented at the same time ○Resolving Gel:has about 10-15% acrylamide (higher than stacking) and is where the actual separation of proteins based on the molecular weight takes place ●SDS-PAGE vs. SEC (how do large proteins migrate in each?)
○On SDS-PAGE, smaller molecules migrate the fastest vs on SEC smaller molecules migrate the slowest; large proteins are higher on SDS PAGE gel while they elute first in SEC. ●Purpose of stacking gel, why it is necessary in SDS-PAGE (and not DNA gels) ○In SDS-PAGE, the proteins are inserted in line with the direction of migration, whereas on an agarose gel, samples are loaded perpendicular to this migration. Therefore a stacking gel is unnecessary since the samples migrate in a tight band w/o the need to concentrate it. ●Visualization methods, quantification of protein bands, molecular weight determination ○Coomassie brilliant blue:binds to proteins, most common, this technique requires fixing proteins to the gel to ensure they don’t migrate out of the gel.

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General Newsletter #1
May 31st, 2016
It’s that time of year again! The markets have started, Vegetables are rolling through our booths, a fresh batch of pigs just went in for slaughter so fresh cuts will be back at markets by Saturday Market and we are already calling down our lists to make sure vegetable products get moved and not fed to chickens as waste. And the bugs have already taken out a couple of beds so that the chickens and sheep both got vegetable treats.
This last week we accomplished a fair bit. We have been starting scads of trays of various different kinds of winter squash (including 20 trays with 72 cells each of just Delicata squash!) and clearing out early beds of crops that were either done or eaten by bugs or bolted to seed because of the early heat so that we can start planting tomato starts in our large hoophouse. We also spent part of one afternoon laying about 3,500 feet of mulch paper for said winter squash. We were able to borrow a mulch layer for our tractor from the WSU Organic Farm to accomplish all of that footage in just about 4 hours, including frequent and frustrating fine-tuning. It was worth it! Laying mulch by hand takes a lot longer by hand and is hard on your back because you must shovel dirt all along the edge to hold the paper down or the wind will blow it away.
On Sunday, we had one employee and her fiancee as well as the Links of Link’d Hearts Ranch out in the afternoon to assist with cutting and planting potatoes. All together, not counting children who were busy climbing trees and hay bales, we had 9 people working on cutting, planting and tractor implement adjusting and tractor driving. In just 5 hours we were able to get all but 275 pounds of the 1000 pounds we purchased cut and into the ground. Jason and I and our Intern put in and finished the last 25 lbs that had been cut but not planted on Monday morning.
Jason and I both had the feeling of being “real” farmers with this project in particular. We both felt like up until now, we never used the tractor much in the actual cultivation of our vegetables. Sure, we’d use the rototiller to make a fine seedbed or hook up to our discs to take down a cover crop or to break up a space that chickens or pigs had occupied over the winter so that manure had plenty of time to breakdown before any crops were even planted but we’d never used it to actually plant a vegetable crop. We borrowed a toolbar and some ditchers from Wilson Banner Ranch and finally got out the box of tractor sized ratchets so that we could adjust it all and then cutting ditches and covering up potatoes took almost no time at all! (check out Facebook for the Video!)
Allow me to caveat all of that with the fact that there are millions of farmers in the world who are quite successful at farming and don’t have or want a tractor. They are most certainly REAL farmers! (There are a couple at the Moscow Farmer’s Market!) I am saying “Real” in quotes to emphasize the stereotypical idea that “real” farmers are only “real” when they use the tractor, or similar, for every aspect of their farm from planting to cultivating to harvest.
Coming up this week is tons more transplanting! The list off the top of my brain includes tomatoes, peppers, onions, more kale, more chard, more bok choi, broccoli, cauliflower and many many more items. And the last of our potatoes. That will make nearly an acre of potatoes for this season! Definitely a new venture for us on this scale but it’s one that we don’t feel is adequately served in our area and we have the space such that we can put in an acre of potatoes without cramping our style on our CSA or having a full variety of vegetables at our Market booths.
The other big change to look for this season is definitely going to be lots of vegetables at the markets. We have purchased two full booth spaces at both the Pullman Farmer’s Market as well as the Moscow Farmer’s Market and plan on filling all of that space with vegetables! Even if you didn’t purchase a CSA you’ll be able to pick up plenty of veggies from us also each week to go with eggs, lamb and pork. Financially for us, the vegetables are going to be much more important this season as we have been having some challenges finding land on which we are allowed to run batches of hogs. We are working on some options for our second and final batch of the 2016 season but are open to many ideas for land for the coming years if it’s not too far away from our current farm.
As many of you may have heard, we had to move house this spring. The farm has not moved and doesn’t need to in the near future. We purchased a small mobile home in Pullman and have finally finished moving out of the farmhouse. Which means we can finally focus on getting caught up on farming! Our new house still feels like a storage unit with tons of boxes everywhere but each night we get another one or two unpacked and every night we are able to actually live in a little bit more of our space. Our longer-term plan is to live in our new place for four or five years while we save up some money and search for our Forever Farm. Ideally, somewhere in Whitman County, preferably in the Pullman School District but we will see what stands out to us as we get closer to being ready to actually purchase a place.
The other big news, if you haven’t already heard is that I, Margaret, am back on the farm full-time. This is a long-time dream of ours finally coming to fruition. In April, I resigned my job at WSU and made the leap. So far, I am enjoying farming full time. While everything is still extremely stressful, more so because the farm will actually need to provide our family’s income for the year, my life’s stress is reduced on the whole because I am not ALSO beholden to my employer at WSU and their expectations. I am so much more enjoying each day, even though it is so much harder and physical work. I get to see Oak all day long and I also get to see HannaMae and Alli right after school. I get to see Jason all day long also. I know, some of you are raising your eyebrows at me and wondering how long it’ll take for us to do away with one another but so far we haven’t killed each other yet, quite…
This season, it will be tough and everything is in transition from what it was last season into the present in so many different ways and many things won’t and haven’t gone quite the way we’d wanted them to so far. On the other hand, things look bright. We are pretty well on track so far to at least squeak by, even if we end up needing to pick up some sort of job over the winter, we’ll do just fine.
Best wishes to you all on this bright week,
Jason & Margaret
HannaMae, Alli, Oak

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is 30 years since The Brunel Rooms in Swindon opened its doors
and since then it has become the nightspot of choice for
three generations of south
Brunel Rooms started out as a live music venue in 1973 and attracted
many top acts such as Blondie, Talking Heads and The Jam throughout
the 80s it evolved into a nightclub to accommodate the growth
of dance music and since then, has never looked back.
club's mix of varied events, regular visits from the cream of
the DJ fraternity and a firm but fair door policy has kept the
club head and shoulders above its nearest rivals.
Video clip of Points West reporter Steve Knibbs looking
back on 30 years of The Brunel Rooms.
celebrate its 30th anniversary, we are proud to present a gallery
of images taken at the club over the years.
also come bang up to date with shots of the likes of Westlife,
Mis-Teeq and Sophie Ellis-Bextor visiting the club.
you have ever gone clubbing at The Brunel Rooms, take a trip down
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1. Before plug in your bulb camera.
Things to prepare:
- Bulb camera.
- WiFi router.
- Bulb base near WiFi.
- Smart APP (Most of our cameras work with the Tuya APP, some don’t. The following steps are mainly based on the Tuya APP.)
2. Time to plug in your bulb camera.
Start by finding an available light bulb base near your WiFi router.
First and foremost, turn off the power.
There are 2 cases. First, if you want to take the light bulb off and put the camera back on, make sure the light bulb cools down before removing it. Second, use the provided bulb base and install it directly after turning off the power.
Screw in your bulb camera before powering on.
3. Setup your bulb camera.
Search for “Tuya” app in App Store/App Market, or scan the QR code below to download.
1. Register / Log in with existing account
If you do not have an App account yet, you can register an account or log in via SMS verification code. Please read the current page and the next page for the description of the registration process.
- Log in
If you have already registered an account, you can skip creating a new account, click “Log in”, and enter the log-in page.
(1) The system automatically selects the current Country/Region, or you can manually select the Country/Region.
(2) Enter your registered e-mail address, and enter your password to log in to the system.
Or log in with your Google account.
2. Add Device
QR code net-pairing (Recommended)
※App supports QR code net-pairing and Wi-Fi connection. You can choose to add the device by other options.(Figure 0)
※Power the camera, and you can hear the voice to remind you configure the network.
※When the mobile phone connecting to Wi-Fi, click “Add Device” (figure 1)on the Home of the App, select “Security & Video Surveillance”(figure 2)→ “Smart Camera”, click “next step” (figure 3).
※Enter Wi-Fi account and password, click “Confirm” (figure 4).
※Hold the mobile phone screen in front of the camera (figure 5), the distance between the two should be 15 to 20 cm. (figure 5) Try not to shake the mobile phone during the scanning.
※When you hear a prompt, click “I hear a Prompt”, and wait for connecting. (figure 6).
※Device added successfully, you can choose the device name and room scene.
Please make sure the mobile phone and device are connected to 2.4GHz router. Make sure the correct Wi-Fi password is entered.
If fail to add device, it is recommended to restart the device or power off the device, and try again.
Check for weak Wi-Fi signal. You can place the camera close to the router. If it still doesn’t work, reset the device, and add it again.
The device resetting only resets the camera’s network configuration and cannot change the configuration on the App. You must log in the App to delet the camera from the list.
It is recommended to insert and remove the SD card after power off the device. Check if the SD card is under normal service conditions and the format is FAT32. The App shall suggest “”could not find SD card”” under unstable network of the mobile phone or the device.
Can most lightsocket cameras use the TUYA APP HOW DOES ONE KNOW . I THREE CAMERAS all have different apps I would like to think most cameras could be accessed by TUYA is this not true?
It depends on whether TUYA has cooperated with your three cameras. This may require you to ask the customer service of the place where you bought the camera.
I have tried the instruction several times and does not connect with my phone.
This article is the instruction manual for the JFCAM camera. If you bought it from another store, it is best to ask their customer service directly. Hope you can solve your problem soon!
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May I simply say what a relief to uncover somebody that actually understands what they are talking about online. You certainly understand how to bring a problem to light and make it important. A lot more people should check this out and understand this side of your story. It’s surprising you’re not more popular since you surely possess the gift.
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US President, Donald trump talked on the phone with the head of Russia Vladimir Putin, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. This was reported in his Twitter spokesman Sean Spicer.
During a conversation with Putin in the oval office were Vice-President Michael Penny, the national security Advisor, Michael Flynn, chief of staff of the White House Raines Primus, a senior adviser to trump, Steve Bannon.
As noted by Spicer, the conversation with Merkel lasted 45 minutes. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe trump during the conversation invited to visit the United States on February 10.
Four hours later after talking to the press service Donaldina trump, in contrast to the press-service of the Kremlin, and gave no details of the conversation. The Western media refer to the statement after the conversation.


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Hazel went to California with Katie, Cory and Dean for the weekend. I'm pretty sure she was in heaven.
Colorado was fun. the reception was Beautiful and delicious. They had a frozen yogurt machine. it was AWESOME :)
oh and Denver has some pretty nice shopping.
Kimi, Craig, Eli and Owen were able to make it to the reception!!! it was so much fun to see them
I think Owen was getting hungry and trying to eat Kim's face..
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Dhoni is merely the third athlete to win the award when Sachin Tendulkar in 2010 and Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara in 2011 and 2012.
“This is one in every of the awards that has given Pine Tree State tremendous satisfaction, since it comes from the key stakeholders of the sport – the fans. Recognition from the those who support and encourage us day in and trip solely evokes me to place in this rather more, and go the additional mile for them. i’d wish to impart all those those who have voted in my favour,” Dhoni aforesaid during a statement.
Board of management for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Sanjay Patel received the award on behalf of Dhoni, who is traveling South Africa with the Indian team.
The other nominees for the award were Australia’s Michael Clarke, England’s Alastair Cook, India’s Virat Kohli and South Africa’s AB Delaware Villiers.
The award was voted upon by close to 188,000 fans round the world. choice opened Nov two and closed Nov twenty three.


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It takes a lot of confidence to get up with just acoustic instruments and your voice, and it was clear Arnalds had complete faith in her talent, and rightfully so. Her lilting voice and ease with plucking various stringed instruments with her fingers made for a set of delicate yet lively songs. Before performing "Crazy Car," Arnalds told us she had traveled here from Salt Lake City and that she thought she was going to go crazy cooped up in the vehicle for the last five hours of the trip. Watching her face contorting with the force of emotion, you could tell Arnalds clearly felt every note she sang. Toward the end of the set after performing "Surrender," she closed with a song wherein she was able to get a large number of people in the audience to sing part of the melody while she sang the "string parts.
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Blonde Redhead embraces electronics and an ethereal mood on its latest album, Penny Sparkle. Pier Nicola D'Amico hide caption toggle caption Blonde Redhead embraces electronics and an ethereal mood on its latest album, Penny Sparkle. Pier Nicola D'Amico If you were to hear Blonde Redhead 's records back to back, you'd hear an incremental but deliberate through-line in the band's musical progression. From its early days as a noisy "no wave" outfit to Misery Is a Butterfly's baroque rock and the dream-pop of 23, Blonde Redhead has continued to refine and rethink its sound in inventive ways.
To me, the most artistic band is a punk-rock band. There's a big difference between an art band and a band that has a concept of its music. That's what's really artistic; it's not about dropping weird stuff in and making weird noises and having awkward pauses in the music. I never wanted to be categorized as that.

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No day to be named after a uvula
(with a nod to Alex Vouri)
I dream I am a famous tenor,
stripped of my tucked-in shirt.
I rehearse in the shower,
later bellow high notes
into an ice-cave, echoes there
adding strength to my refrain.
The opera fails in Australia.
My songs leak counter-clockwise
down a plastic drain, lose power
at the bend, leave me out of breath
before the aria ends. Nameless.
Another guilty white guy
who will only be remembered
if I put all my shit in a museum.
This being America, there were patriots present
(with apologies to Stephen Crane)
In the desert
I saw creatures,
running about with swords,
each cutting open another’s head.
“Won’t you miss
your brains?” I asked.
“What?” they replied,
and skipped off together,
(published by The Curious Record, 2010)
You can do it awhile. Air pockets remain,
locked around ice crystals. But not forever —
just long enough to replay the avalanche
rolling over life, sweeping love downhill,
leaving you flattened in white,
no way to reach for sky. If your ears still hear,
eyes are not frozen closed, hand trapped
near face can clear a bit of space,
you may have sufficient time
to listen for swish of metal probes
slicing nearby. promising beams of light.
If tempted to sleep, imagine
a new lover finds you, scoops a place
by your side, lies close. Together,
you breathe hope into deep snow.
(Sue Boynton poetry winner, Bellingham WA, 2013)
Timothy Pilgrim is a Pacific Northwest poet with several hundred published poems. Mapping Water (Flying Trout Press) in 2016 was his first book of poems.. His work can be found at timothypilgrim.org.
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Hunt, fresh in the job and on the receiving end of a massive political ‘hospital pass’ from the short-lived reign of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, faced an unenviable task with this statement. Following a few weeks when the UK’s reputation for fiscal continence was severely damaged, it was imperative that he continue to rebuild the trust of international markets. He also had to walk a fine line between taking tough decisions on tax and spending without deepening the existing rifts in the Conservative party. Finally, with the Tories languishing in the opinion polls, he had to convince the public that this government can be trusted to look after their interests during tough economic times.
To soothe markets, he spoke in reverent tones about the appreciation he has for the work of the Bank of England and Office for Budget Responsibility, while stressing two new fiscal rules aimed at keeping the UK’s finances on the straight and narrow. In an attempt to head off internal division in the party, he repeatedly positioned his policies in the fine old tradition of Conservative orthodoxy: spurring innovation, getting people into work, making sure the country pays its way and the value of regulatory reforms (especially with “post-Brexit freedoms”) to stimulate growth. For the public, meanwhile, he emphasised the commitment to increasing funding for key public services such as schools and the NHS, as well as targeting support towards the most vulnerable through raising the National Living Wage and maintaining the pensions ‘triple lock’.
Again and again in his statement, Hunt made reference to forthcoming reviews into major areas of policy such as defence, the NHS and social care, education, and workforce participation. Kicking the can down the road is a favourite pastime of every politician, although in Hunt’s defence he has barely been in his job five minutes and not everything can be reformed all at once. But those reviews hint at potential further tough decisions to come.
In reply, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves was predictably robust, declaring that “Britain can no longer afford a Tory government”. It remains to be seen whether the public will share that view come the next election, but regardless of one’s opinion of this Autumn Statement, what’s certain is that things are going to get even worse economically before they get better.
In Hunt’s closing remarks, he referred to the spirit, determination and ingenuity of the British people, reminding us that the country has overcome worse in the past and saying that we will ‘face into the storm’. It’s often said that there’s no such thing as bad weather, just unsuitable clothing. As Hunt scrambles to pull on the nation’s waterproofs and thrust its feet into wellies, he does so in the knowledge that the country is already thoroughly drenched. A hearty meal and warm hearth at the end of the trek can’t come soon enough.
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The Bat Boy and His Violin by Gavin Curtis; 32 pages
A young aspiring violinist learns the value of family ties and team spirit in this picture book lushly illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner E.B. Lewis about a down-on-their-luck baseball team and the music that turns their season around.
Reginald loves to create beautiful music on his violin. But Papa, manager of the Dukes, the worst team in the Negro National League, needs a bat boy, not a ''fiddler,'' and traveling with the Dukes doesn’t leave Reginald much time for practicing.
Soon the Dukes’ dugout is filled with Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach—and the bleachers are filled with the sound of the Dukes’ bats. Has Reginald’s violin changed the Dukes’ luck—and can his music pull off a miracle victory against the powerful Monarchs?


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The bent top tube provides a low standover height for rider confidence and easy mounting and dismounting. Some of the technical features of our performance e-bikes make an appearance - satellite charging socket, two compound battery compartment cover, and neat bottle boss system incorporating tidy cable routing.
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The eBIG.TOUR EQ is rolling on 29er wheels which have fantastic ‘rolling over obstacles’ behaviour. As standard, it comes equipped with 2.2" wide tyres which offer plenty of grip and comfort. If no fenders are fitted, the tyres can go up to 2.35" improving the off-road riding characteristics even further.
A two-component battery cover, which offers the perfect protection for the internal battery of these models. The softer (outer) layer reduces noises, seals the downtube perfectly and absorbs hits from trail debris easily, while the harder (inner) layer ensures that the battery does not get damaged and gives it the structural shape.
The system weight of a bike is the combined weight of bike, rider and additional luggage. The allowed system weight is 140 kg. As an e-bike is already heavier than a regular bike, and as it also makes it easier to transport larger amounts of luggage, it is imperative to certify a higher overall system weight. All MERIDA e-bikes, as well as all used componentry, go through a rigorous and e-bike specific testing schedule which mimics the higher forces and strains to guarantee the rider the highest level of safety.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment has released a brutal Red Band Trailer and a Poster for ‘The Equalizer 3’ which is once again directed by Antoine Fuqua and stars Denzel Washington. Continue below to check out the first Trailer and Poster for the sequel.
You can watch the Red Band Trailer for the new film below, which is followed by the Poster.
‘The Equalizer 3’ is currently set to arrive only in Theaters on September 1, 2023.
‘The Equalizer 3’ is once again directed by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay written by Richard Wenk and based on the television series created by Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim. The film’s cast includes Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman and more.
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends’ protector by taking on the mafia.


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DUBOIS CO., Ind. (WFIE) - Dubois County has seen a decline in COVID-19 cases. Although health department officials say the county is still seen by the state as having a moderate to high spread of COVID-19.
“So the state is taking the weekly cases per hundred thousand and the counties positivity rate and coming up with the color-coding of the counties,” said Shawn Werner, the Dubois Co. Health Dept. Administrative Director.
Indiana has three categories: Red, orange, and yellow. Red equals high spread, yellow is moderate spread. Just last week, Dubois County fell into the orange category right in the middle. Meaning there’s a moderate to high community spread of COVID-19.
“We have communication with the schools on a daily basis,” said Werner.
County health officials met with school leaders on Tuesday. They decided schools will continue to follow the same path they’ve been on since the beginning of the academic year.
“We feel like when they first started school, if they would have done the same exact statistics, we would have been in the red. So it’s kind of hard to justify going backwards from where we’re at now if we were worse off when we started so that’s why we’re sticking with the plan,” said Werner.
However, if a spike in case numbers happens, health officials say they would consider making changes to how schools are operating.
“We can see a lot of times through the contact tracing where they believe the cases came from and it’s not to the alarming fact to where a lot of these cases are coming from schools. We have some, but you’re never going to have zero,” said Werner.
On Wednesday, the state is supposed to release new county color-coding data.
“It’s kind of reassuring at this moment that we’re not seeing a large increase in schools. If that happens, we will take that into consideration when it comes,” said Werner.
Dubois County health officials believe the county will stay in orange or drop down to yellow because of the gradual decline they’ve seen over the last couple of weeks.


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text: Lipika Pelham is an author, reporter and documentary filmmaker. In her early twenties, she joined the BBC World Service, working in the newsroom for over a decade and reporting from the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. In 2005-13, she lived in Jerusalem, where she learnt Hebrew, made award-winning films and wrote a memoir, The Unlikely Settler. Her most recent book Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic was published in 2019 by Hurst. Pelham’s broader themes explore the ideas of migration, nationhood and performing identity in relationship to place.