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F3507g workaround: Use WWAN card without third party software and utilize the GPS sensor
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ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - The Literacy Council of Alaska estimates more than 20 percent of adults read at or below a fifth-grade level. A new program in Anchorage hopes to change that and possibly get some animals adopted.
"When I was really little I used to hate reading in front of the class. I would get super nervous," 13-year-old Ashley Perry said.
Perry is the brains behind the reading program, named in her honor and recently launched at Anchorage Animal Care and Control. Readers of any age and skill level are encouraged to stop by the shelter during normal hours and read to the animals up for adoption."So the child that's learning how to read gets a positive interaction," Perry said.
Perry told KTUU she heard about a similar program in Michigan and was inspired when she went to adopt her own rescue dog, Chance. "There was another puppy in there that had been trained for fighting and we realized he was just so afraid of people and if he would have just had good human interaction it probably would have helped him get adopted."
In a place more familiar with strays than stanzas, Laura Atwood, the public relations coordinator for AACC, said the program will help animals build confidence with people."It's helping the ones who are shy maybe feel a little more comfortable."
Sarah Krug brought her three children to read to the animals on Friday."My son put one of the cats to sleep and one of the cats was reaching out trying to turn the pages for my daughter."
No adoptable animal is off limits for readers: "We always have cats but if someone wants to read to a dog, or our guinea pigs or a rabbit that's just fine," Atwood said. The shelter does require adult supervision for children and participants are asked to be respectful of the animals.

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Hey everyone, I ended up with some (unexpected) time on my hands, and I am feeling good enough to hit the keyboard. So here is a quick movie review and a Top-20 Christmas Special/Movie List...
My Latest Movie Review:
|Double A gives it 4.5 Stars! |
I AM LEGEND
Starring: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, and Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Directed By: Francis Lawrence
Released By: Warner Bros.
Run Time: 100 min.
Genre: Action and Adventure, Science Fiction, Drama, New Release
The rundown: Will Smith plays Dr. Robert Neville, a world-renowned scientist, trying to stop the outbreak of an unstoppable virus. This man-made virus was first believed to cure cancer, but in time the virus begin to cause awful mutations and eventually overblown rabies like symptoms. Neville, immune to the virus, has for three years sent out radioed daily distress messages on all open channels in search of any other living humans. But he is reluctant to leave NYC, ground zero, in search of others. Day after day he goes through his routine to live, survive and stay safe from The Infected. Neville believes that he is mankind's last hope, thus he continues his work in an effort to find a way to reverse the effects of the evil virus through the use of his own immune blood. It's a personal race against time and the plague to save human civilization. The Bottom line:
I loved the movie. It was very entertaining and very different from anything I have ever seen before. I would give it 4.5 out of 5 stars!
It's a great flick so check it out between Bruins games or when we are on break next week!
Jumping out of horror and into the Christmas spirit I have also decided to give you guys my list of top 20 Christmas movies and TV specials…
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20. And another movie to go see this week!!!! FRED CLAUSE
19. Jingle all the way
18. The Nightmare Before Christmas
17. Frosty the Snow Man
16. Ernest Saves Christmas
15. A Muppet Christmas
14. Miracle on 34th St.
13. It's a Wonderful Life
12. A Christmas Story
11. The Polar Express
9. The Santa Clause
8. Scrooged - An adult movie, but Bill Murray is always pretty funny.
7. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (the Jim Carrey version)
6. Bad Santa - A very, very adult Christmas movie, but again, very, very funny!
5. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Everyone has had a Charlie Brown Christmas tree at least once.
4. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - This and #5 were my childhood favorites! How can you not love Clay-animation!?!
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Nothing like bringing the two extended families together for Christmas. And Clark is a hockey fan!
2. Home Alone - Haven't we all wished to have the house to ourselves when we were kids?
And the #1 AA Approved Christmas Special/Movie: 1. Dr. Seuss's the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. (Old version) - Got to love the Whos!
I know I said this they other day, but why not say it again? I truly hope you all have a great Holiday & a very Healthy New Year!! Albe

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Noise of the World
Reviewer: Brian Fanelli
After a year of lockdowns, face masks, and death counts still too great to process, George Franklin’s latest collection of poems, Noise of the World, feels incredibly relevant right now, as the world still reels from the global pandemic and its long-term implications. His book offers meditations on death but also celebrations of life, including those everyday moments that we may take for granted, like cooking with a loved one or talking about art with friends over dinner. As we slowly emerge from isolation and hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us, Franklin’s poems remind us to take pleasure in those familiar moments.
The first section, “Agua,” is a rumination on loss. Several of its poems feature the speaker and his partner witnessing and processing the gradual decay and eventual death of the partner’s father. In the opening poem, the speaker describes the physical changes that the father undergoes, his face shrunken to “bones and cartilage” and his eyes “large” and “searching.” Yet, this is also juxtaposed with references to life, with neighborhoods in Cali where the speaker’s partner used to walk, filled with birds and “the impenetrable green / Of the future.” The poem explores the ravages of death, yes, but by nodding to the partner’s childhood, filled with youthful memories, like “dancing salsa” with her friends, the poem offers an important counterweight to an otherwise grim and heavy subject matter. Further, this experience of watching a loved one die brings the speaker and his partner closer, finding strength in their relationship, despite the reality that the father won’t make it. It’s a powerful opening poem, and the balance of life and death sets the tone for the rest of the book.
In “Ghosts,” Franklin ponders what becomes of us once we leave this plane and whether we can ever truly shake our daily routines. “They are the same as they’ve ever been,” Franklin writes in the opening line, continuing, “Getting up in the morning, going // To the closet for a shirt and pants, / Making coffee in the dark kitchen.” It does make the reader stop and wonder if our lives are nothing more than routines, waking up, making coffee, dressing, and then going to work. The eight-line poem is punctuated with a note of sadness, as Franklin muses, “They are the same / As ever, but no one notices.” Yet, in the following poem, “Glamor,” Franklin again memorializes the dead by celebrating their life. Though the poem is about his grandfather’s waning days, most of it is rooted in vivid memory, including the grandfather’s white suits that he wore to work in the summer and ties “handmade form Chinese silk.” The speaker recounts the twilight that “rolled downhill like something lost,” while he listened to his grandfather recite stories or reprise Shakespeare or Ibsen. Franklin ends the poem with an image of the grandfather’s walking stick and taking it before it could be sold at an estate sale following the grandfather’s death. While the poem may recount the grandfather’s passing, the family member is very much alive in the poem, which celebrates his connection to the speaker.
The collection’s later poems were written in response to COVID, especially at the start of the lockdowns. Though there has already been debate on whether such quarantine poems will hold meaning years from now, or if they’re too timely, Franklin’s response to the pandemic is haunting. Further, how can anyone be an artist and not address a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic? In what feels like a coda to the book’s title poem, Franklin added a few italicized stanzas to the piece, recalling New York burying its dead in mass and losing count of how many times we’ve washed our hands. He concludes with the chilling image, “The lights of the empty YMCA / Seemed possessed of a terrible sadness.” His added lines powerfully recount what those earliest days of the pandemic felt like, specifically the uncertainty, the quiet streets, the fear of going to the supermarket. These are images that need to be documented, too timely or not.
In another poem, “Quarantine Days,” Franklin again resurrects the character of the grandfather, while recounting what he endured during the Spanish Flu and how he persevered. After the grandfather caught the flu, Franklin tells us, he barricaded himself on the sleeping porch, before collapsing and eventually allowing a doctor in. Despite sweating, fighting a fever, and drifting in and out of sleep, the grandfather endured, as the poem concludes, “But, fate dislikes / That kind of drama, and one day he / Got out of bed, moved the furniture, // And quietly unlocked the porch door.” After the year that we’ve all had and the constant headlines about mass death, “Quarantine Days” serves as a gut-punch, a powerful testament to human life. Franklin also has a way of personalizing large historical events, such as COVID or the Spanish Flu, by binding them to family history and memory.
Perhaps most importantly, Noise of the World reminds us not to take for granted those everyday activities that remind us that we’re alive. This is especially true post-COVID. In “Breaking Curfew,” written in April 2020, Franklin accurately captures the eerie silence of those first weeks in lockdown. He writes:
These nights when we walk together, the streets
Are empty, the way they are in your poem,
The lights of the shopping mall seem pointless.
I don’t know if the department store at the
Corner will ever reopen. From the other side of
The park, it looks like a white church (your phrase)
That no one visits. We stop for a minute to
Look down at the canal. Even the ducks have gone.
I haven’t read anything yet that accurately captured those frightening early days of lockdown as well as Franklin’s poem. Yet, he concludes the piece with the couple still living and going about their routine, determined to make dinner and go for a walk. Life goes on, as they say, and perhaps that’s the most important takeaway from Noise of the World. Despite death at the personal level or a larger level, as with a global pandemic, life continues, much like the grandfather in “Quarantine Days” or the couple in “Breaking Curfew.”
Noise of the World addresses personal loss frequently, but it’s also a praise song to those daily acts of living, those everyday moments that feel more important post-COVID. Even a neighborhood stroll around the block or a couple cooking dinner holds significant weight in Franklin’s poems. He has a knack for giving the familiar substance and meaning. This is no easy feat. His work is engaging, rooted in personal narrative and memory. Noise of the World is a potent, moving read, particularly given the context of the previous year.

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China to ban the petrol engine?
Christmas spending might be a little tight this year if oil keeps creeping up.
Brent crude is back flirting with US$80.
There’s little good news about this unless you own oil stocks or happen to be the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
Now there’s a man that might be smiling right now! Back in 2016, the Saudis colluded with their fellow crude oil producers within OPEC to get the oil price to rise.
They got their wish.
This is once again giving the Crown Prince the cash flow to diversify the country away from fossil fuels.
This is a trend you need to be on.
Some of this money might even show up in Australia of all places.
The Australian reports this morning that former high-flying executive Andrew Liveris is now in an advisory role with the men that run the Saudi’s sovereign cash hoard.
It’s called the Public Investment Fund.
It could potentially have US$400 billion under management within two years. That’s some serious moolah!
By way of comparison, Australia’s Future Fund has around $141 billion.
The Saudis are said to be interested in technology, resource and environmental opportunities here.
We don’t have far to look to see why.
Saudi Arabia reveals the future of transport
Bloomberg shocked everyone recently when it reported on the latest sales figures for electric vehicles.
They just had their highest level of sales for one quarter.
Take a look:
The most important component of this bar chart is the black part.
That represents China.
It’s the largest market – for both cars and electric vehicles – in the world.
Argus Media just reported something crucially important around this, and yet few would have noticed.
The Chinese government is considering legislation that will ban the construction of automobile factories that only produce internal combustion engines.
That would mean automakers would HAVE to produce electric vehicles if they want to produce and sell in China.
This shows Beijing wants China’s car fleet electrified, and they’re happy to use every means at their disposal to do so.
We can pick up clues around the push toward renewable energy elsewhere.
In March, the Saudis announced they intended to build the world’s biggest solar plant in conjunction with their investment partner Softbank at an expected cost of US$200 billion.
The Saudis are also believed to be the key backer behind Elon Musk’s short-lived idea to take his car company Tesla private.
The Saudis already own about US$2 billion worth of Tesla stock and are said to be considering an investment in a Tesla rival.
What’s clear is the Saudis have determined that the future has a lot less oil in it, and they better do something about it fast.
The current trends pushing oil higher might be their last big lift to build up a massive cash hoard for the future.
This trend is not new.
The secret to Uber’s long-term strategy
The Saudis put at least US$45 billion into the Softbank Vison Fund back in 2016. That has the mandate to take big, bold bets on the future.
For example, it owns 15% of Uber.
Uber is due to list on the public market next year. It might even be the biggest IPO ever.
Even Uber is a signal of the shift away from gasoline powered cars. It’s now going to use the e-bikes from its subsidiary Jump for shorter trips within the inner-cities of the world.
(Side note: As you’ll see at around 2:45 pm today, this has huge implications for the investment situation I’ve been talking about the last few days. Hold tight, we’re nearly there!).
In July, the Financial Times also reported that Uber’s invested in a new round of funding for electric scooter ride-sharing company, Lime.
Lime also happens to be exploring and developing its own electric vehicles.
You’d better make sure you’re on the right side of this trade.
One company that wasn’t was a New York lender called Melrose Credit Union.
The rise of Uber and ride-hailing firms has pushed it into insolvency.
The reason being is that it lent against the value of New York taxi medallions.
Melrose was in business for almost an entire century.
The New York taxi medallions are now worth a fifth of what they were five years ago. The operators that bought these medallions at the top of their value are going into delinquency as the taxi market share shrinks.
Here’s the rub: the taxi medallion was never anything but a government privilege that restricted competition.
The free market – when it’s allowed to operate – ripped the government’s useless bit of paper to shreds. Good riddance!
Note the previous effect of a government granted monopoly, however: a New York taxi medallion inflated in value to over US$1 million EACH at their peak.
They were $10 when they were first issued decades ago.
Why am I telling you this?
Another form of government monopoly is a patent.
We don’t have time to debate the merits of these here now. Only to say they give the holder increased profits than they’d otherwise earn in a truly free economy.
My researcher and I have come to the conclusion that Uber may be in a position to patent a key idea around the uptake of electric bikes around the world.
If that happens – and we’ll know by the end of October – it may be sitting on a stream of inflated profits for years to come.
It could drive the valuation of the company through the roof along with three key stocks, two of which are listed right here in Australia.
I’ve never seen anything quite like this set-up in my career.
All the details will be released a little later today. Hold tight.

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GRAMMY-nominated Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame Member Lee Roy Parnell is reuniting with his original band, The Hot Links, at the Franklin Theatre on November 20 at 8 p.m. to revisit the band’s rich history, hit recordings and of course their legendary live performances, which are still talked about to this day. This one-night-only reunion concert will showcase Parnell’s world-class slide guitar chops and soulful vocal delivery with The Hot Links’ rollicking musicianship. Tickets for the 25th Anniversary Bash can be purchased at www.franklintheatre.com.
Parnell, whose hits include “On The Road,” “Love Without Mercy,” “I’m Holding My Own,” “Tender Moment” and “What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am,” has a deep-rooted friendship and collaborative history with The Hot Links: Steve Mackey (bass), Kevin McKendree (keys), James Pennebaker (guitar, mandolin, fiddle & steel guitar) and Lynn Williams (drums).
Parnell made great progressions within the country music industry as he was one of the first in the ’90s to use his live band in the studio rather than studio musicians who were frequenters on Music Row. The result: Parnell and The Hot Links firing on all musical cylinders as can be experienced on Parnell’s country chart hits such as “Heart’s Desire” and “A Little Bit Of You” and his highly acclaimed classic albums, We All Get Lucky Sometimes and Every Night’s A Saturday Night. The Orlando Sentinel, in a vintage Lucky review, called Parnell a “fiery slide guitar player and, like Vince Gill, has a reputation as a musician’s musician” and The Hot Links a “hard-driving, versatile band.”
“I always liked artists or bands that sounded unique,” Parnell explains. “My motto was ‘if I sound like everybody else, then what’s the point?’ When it came to recordings, I always felt like the records should sound like the band live on the bandstand and vice versa, so I started putting my dream band together long before I came to Nashville.
“I’ve known James Pennebaker since we were 17 years old. The first time I heard James play (with our friend and mentor, Delbert McClinton) I knew that when the time came for me to put my band together, Brother James was my guy. The same can be said for Brother Lynn Williams on drums and Brother Steve Mackey on bass. I knew they belonged in this band long before I could hire them. Brother Reese Wynans, who had played with me in Austin and was with me again for a time after I had moved to Nashville, ultimately decided to stay home in favor of playing sessions. Blood brother, Rob Roy Parnell, and his harmonica had the gig with me since he was 12 years old, so he was on board. Then came our final member, Kevin McKendree, who was the perfect addition on keyboards, and that was the final and definitive Hot Link roster,” says Parnell.
A tradition has been established over the last several years, with Parnell playing The Franklin Theatre each fall, many times in a “Lee Roy Parnell & Friends” format with special guests, but this will be the first time Parnell and The Hot Links, along with special guest and honorary band member Rob Roy Parnell, have performed together at one of these unique shows.
“The Franklin Theatre is — and always has been — my baby,” says Parnell, adding, “we love the staff and the vibe at ‘The Franklin.’ The production is top notch! We all live within 30 minutes from there, and it’s always one of the last shows of the year. This show is always a homecoming! That goes for our friends and fans, too.”
When Lee Roy Parnell and The Hot Links once again join forces on Nov. 20 at The Franklin Theatre, the reunion has all the makings of becoming a truly legendary evening of music.
“We are going to throw down and have a whole lot of fun,” says Parnell. “This will be a special night.”
About Lee Roy Parnell
No Depression may have said it best when they called Texas native Lee Roy Parnell “a fine writer blessed with a rich, soulful vocal delivery and a blistering array of guitar chops drawn almost equally from Texas blues, Memphis soul, and Southern rock traditions.” An ace guitarist, distinctive singer, and hit songwriter, his music runs the gamut of diversity. Combining the influences of Blue-Eyed Soul, Delta Blues, Road House Rock, Southern Boogie, Texas Swing, Country and Gospel, Parnell’s sound defies conventional classification. After honing his skills in Austin, Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth and New York, he launched his music career in Nashville after signing with the Arista Nashville record label in 1987 and struck gold with a string of No. 1 and Top 10 hits such as “What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am,” “Tender Moment,” “A Little Bit Of You,” and “On The Road.” Heralded as being an industry leader with his songwriting skills that changed country music, Parnell has earned two GRAMMY Award nominations for his instrumental tracks “Cat Walk” (with Flaco Jiménez) and “Mama, Screw Your Wig On Tight” and was nominated for the CMA Vocal Event of the Year on “John the Revelator” (with The Fairfield Four). Parnell has received widespread acclaim as a guitar slinger. Gibson honored him with the creation and production of the Lee Roy Parnell Signature ’57 Les Paul Goldtop guitar. In 2019, Gibson and Parnell worked together once again on the Lee Roy Parnell Signature 1959 Les Paul Standard. Parnell has collaborated with music legends such as The Allman Brothers Band, Merle Haggard, Delbert McClinton, and Bonnie Raitt. In 2011, Parnell was presented with his most cherished honor: being inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. In 2017, Parnell released the acclaimed self-produced Stax- and Muscle Shoals-inspired album, Midnight Believer. Continuing to stretch boundaries, Parnell has joined forces in recent years with guitar virtuosos Steve Vai, John Jorgenson and Joe Robinson for once-in-a-lifetime live performance collaborations. Parnell is a co-writer (with Guy Clark and Gary Nicholson) of “Worry B Gone” from Chris Stapleton’s current critically acclaimed album, Starting Over. Keep up with Parnell on his website at leeroyparnell.com.
High Valley announces brand new music
Mega hit songwriter, Kent Blazy, inducted to Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame


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Coffman, who came to Indiana as a junior college recruit, became the starter in 2012 after Tre Roberson was injured, and he threw for 2,734 yards with 15 touchdown passes and 11 interceptions.
He was third on the Hoosiers' depth chart in 2013 behind Roberson and Nate Sudfeld.
Indiana coach Kevin Wilson said in a video posted on the Hoosiers' website that he is trying to help Coffman find a new school where he can get more playing time.
Wallace, a 6-foot, 234-pound linebacker, did not play last season after getting a medical redshirt in 2012. The Indianapolis native is expected to land at Indiana State, a Football Championship Subdivision school, and will not have to sit out.


Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, has sued crypto exchanges Kraken and Coinbase for alleged copyright infringement. Based on the case filed by Wright, he accused the two crypto exchanges of intellectual property rights for using the term ‘Bitcoin.’
Wright Is Asking For A £500 Billion As Compensation
According to the lawsuit, Wright is asking for compensation of £500 billion from the accused parties. According to the computer scientist, the niche Bitcoin fork BSV is the only real Bitcoin and any other party that uses the name violates intellectual property rights.
Wrights said that both Coinbase and Kraken have misled investors by using the Bitcoin name to market their cryptocurrencies. This is coming as speculation about the identity of the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, the alleged developer of Bitcoin.
Craig Wright has repeatedly asserted that he is the Bitcoin founder. He has also been on the receiving end of several lawsuits for such claims, with some of the cases still in the court.
Write has also filed a lawsuit against some notable figures within the crypto community as part of a legal campaign. Wright has also sued Vitalik Buterin in 2019 for claiming he lied about inventing Bitcoin. But he later dropped the lawsuit.
As of press time, neither Kraken nor Coinbase has made any comment regarding the lawsuit filed against them.
Wright Still Claims To Be Bitcoin Founder
Last year, Wright won a case against Cobra, the pseudonymous Bitcoin.org creator, as the court ordered the website to take down the Bitcoin whitepaper on the site. However, the decision was a default judgment following Cobra’s decision not to defend the case, failing to appear in court.
The court ordered Bitcoin.org to pay Wright £35,000 to cover his legal costs. Cobra was also ordered to take down the whitepaper and display a court order notice for six months.
In response to the case, Cobra tweeted last month saying “defending against nonsense is a waste of time.”
The latest intellectual property claim against Kraken and Coinbase was issued by ONTIER LLP. The claim stated that the misrepresentation by the two exchanges has resulted in confusion among traders on the authenticity of the crypto assets they transacted on these platforms.


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Although not exactly a creative process, we do follow a pattern to make sure each project succeeds. We are a sociable lot, and try to make projects as interactive as possible – building a project team that analyses, creates, refines, tests and celebrates success together.
Every project needs a project team. When we’re leading it, we aim to recruit people from your organization to the project who know how your lab works and can explain the details clearly. With the right people on the team you can build support and momentum.
As consultants with in-depth experience in this arena, we bring a wealth of understanding of labs and software. Our knowledge encompasses the many constraints, but also the possibilities presented by the technology and the regulatory environment.
We use our knowledge and experience to interrogate the team’s observations and conclusions. We’ll also challenge preconceptions and open the door to new ideas and opportunities.
The output of our initial discussions with the team is either a list of requirements, or a validated list if one already exists.
We’ll reflect on what has been said and develop a visual outline of the system – a sketched blueprint to see if we have understood your requirements correctly.
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- Name: SEIROGAN A 36s
- Origin: JAPAN
- Manufacturer: TAIKO PHARMACEUTICAL CO.,LTD
- Volume: 36 Tablets
- Supplement Facts: Total Carbohydrate, Powdered Geranium Herb, Phellodendron Bark Dried Extract
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Embassies in New Zealand
Travelers are voting Consulate General of Argentina, Embassy of Fiji and Embassy of the Republic of Korea as the best of 62 embassies in New Zealand. Also popular are Singapore High Commission and High Commission of Australia in Wellington and Consulate General of Fiji in Auckland City. Want more? Check out our map of embassies in New Zealand or these 23 embassies in Auckland City.
- Tourist Essentials Embassies3rd Floor, Samoa House, Karangahape Road, P.O.Box 68-147, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Consulate General of the Independent State of Samoa is a Consulate of the Samoa in New Zealand1


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As research teams have grown larger, authorship lists of resulting publications have become longer. Organizations and journals have issued statements about ethical authorship, nature of contribution, and author responsibility, but author order is less frequently addressed. Unless the contribution of a co-author is specified, readers make their own assumptions about author contributions because practices on author order in the byline vary by discipline, journal, editor, publisher, scientific society, institution, country, and the authors themselves. Because contributions are often subject to misinterpretation and publications have become proof of scientific productivity and impact, it is increasingly important that authors themselves specify to readers the type and extent of contribution made by each author.
Burrows, Suzetta MLS and Moore, Mary PhD, "Trends in Authorship Order in Biomedical Research Publications" (2011). Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations. 1.

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Duke had a lot of figures in the vintage days. Some were great. Others were not. The 1993 Battle Corps figure, though, is more towards great. It's a strong mold with decent coloring and black accessories. There are rumors the mold would have been repainted in green cammo in 1995, but that figure never came to pass. Hasbro had the mold during the early 2000's, but chose to only revisit the 1992 Duke figure and ignored this mold. Here's some of the best content on the web for the figure.
1993 Duke Profile
1993 Duke at Nekoman's Viper Pit
Duke at JoeaDay.com
Custom Duke at OreoBuilder's Blog
Pre Production Duke at YoJoe.com
Custom Duke at Cooey's Toy Box
1993 Duke by BattleArmorDad1

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Protocol Navigation: Accelerating the Development of Clinical Translational Research
Co-hosted by The International Association of Clinical Research Nurses (IACRN)
Presented by: Donna Brassil MA, RN, CCRC, Clinical Research Facilitator, Rockefeller University
In translational research there are increasing challenges related to scientific and biostatistical rigor, regulatory requirements, and bioethical review as well as a demand for more rapid discoveries to improve health outcomes. One strategy to overcome these barriers includes developing a protocol navigation program.
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Formerly, she was the Director of Clinical Trials for the Urology Department at New York University Medical Center. In this role, she was accountable for the administrative and clinical operations of all urologic clinical trials and research initiatives. The clinical trials focused on urinary incontinence, male and female sexuality, BPH, and urologic cancers. Prior to this position, she was the Director of Nursing for seven clinical surgical units in the Department of Nursing at the same Medical Center and formerly the GU Nurse Manager. Ms. Brassil graduated from SUNY, Downstate Medical Center with a BSN and from New York University with a MA in Nursing Education.
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Putin Likens Missile Defense In Europe To Soviet Offensive Missiles In Cuba
Russian President Vladimir Putin equated U.S. proposals to install a missile defensive system in Europe to Soviet Union attempts in 1962 to install offensive nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in Cuba, RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, reported.
Putin apparently failed to distinguish between the offensive and defensive purposes of each system.
It was the latest Putin attack on plans to place a U.S. Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) system in Europe, consisting of a high-capability radar in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptors in silos in Poland.
Putin also has threatened a military strike to annihilate any GMD system that is installed in Europe, claiming that it would pose a threat to the hundreds of Russian ICBMs and nuclear warheads.
President Bush and other U.S. leaders have termed that claim nonsense, noting that there would be just 10 interceptors with insufficient speed to catch and kill Russian ICBMs.
Putin spoke in a news conference after a European Union summit with Russia in Portugal.
RIA Novosti quoted Putin as saying that plans for a GMD system in Europe are "quite similar technologically for us [to the Cuban missile crisis]. We have withdrawn the remains of bases from Vietnam and Cuba, but such threats are being created near our borders," Putin was quoted as saying.
He also recalled that President Bush in 2002 pulled the United States out of a missile defense ban treaty, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Bush and Pentagon leaders have said repeatedly that the European GMD system is needed, soon, to counter a growing threat from Iran, which they predict will have missiles capable of reaching Europe by 2015, or sooner.
That Middle Eastern nation is developing steadily longer-range missiles, and also is developing nuclear materials in defiance of Western nations and the United Nations.
Further, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened to wipe Israel off the map.
But Russia has been as indulgent toward Iran as it has been hostile to plans for a missile defense shield protecting Europe from missiles launched by Middle Eastern nations.
Iran has said it is threatening no one, arguing that the nuclear materials are merely to generate electricity, and denying that it is sending terrorists into Iraq to kill American troops.
Iranian missiles don’t threaten European nations or any other country, the Iranian defense minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najar, said, according to RIA Novosti. The Russian news agency cited local news media as the source of the report.
"Iran’s missiles bear no threat to any states, but are designed exclusively for aggressors who violate the border of Iran," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.


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by Mike Masnick
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 7:01am
As a bunch of folks have been sending in, the FBI raided a data center in Reston Virginia, seizing a bunch of servers and taking a bunch of sites offline (including some big names). This isn't -- as some suggested -- quite the same thing as the infamous ICE domain seizures. This sort of thing does happen from time to time, when law enforcement is seeking actual information on a server which is part of a larger criminal investigation. That said, it always amazes me how much collateral damage law enforcement does in these situations, when it seems like they could definitely be a lot more targeted. Even worse, the reports claim that the FBI is actually trying to chase down the loose hacker collective LulzSec, which seems like a waste of time. Frankly it seems like the FBI must have something more important to work on. That said, it does seem somewhat ironic that in trying to track down a group that has been taking down (somewhat random) websites, the FBI has also taken down a bunch of websites, including the popular blog network Curbed, and parts of the super popular utility Instapaper.
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- DOJ Inspector General: ATF, FBI's Drones Worthless, Expensive And Completely Mismanaged
- Many FBI Agents Find Racial Profiling Useless, But Those Up Top Feel It's Just A Failure To Get Everyone On Board
- Congressional Rep. John Carter Discovers Encryption; Worries It May One Day Be Used On Computers To Protect Your Data
- FBI Quietly Removes Recommendation To Encrypt Your Phone... As FBI Director Warns How Encryption Will Lead To Tears
- The DOJ Isn't Interested In Protecting FBI Whistleblowers From Retaliation

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Airnov Healthcare Packaging is introducing a new barrier bottle, OXYNOV, for oxygen-sensitive pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and probiotic products.
The new solution utilizes extrusion-blow-moulding (EBM) technology to create a six-layer bottle using ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH).
According to Airnov, the new bottle can be used on automated filling lines and does not shrink when used in conjunction with oxygen absorbers.
OXYNOV is the latest addition to Airnov’s range of oxygen protective solutions which, when combined with oxygen absorbers, seek to halt the degradation of oxygen-sensitive products such as drugs, proteins, or probiotics. The solution is produced in a range of sizes from 40cc to 400cc.
“After introducing our new company name in February this year, we are continuing to update and evolve some Airnov category products to grow our core business of healthcare packaging solutions. It’s been a wonderful journey along this process to create OXYNOV,” says Stephane Rault, global product line manager.
“Customers will now recognize our oxygen protective solutions through our new Oxynov brand, dedicated to oxygen protective solutions.”
In addition to its oxygen protective attributes, the new solution also guarantees protection from moisture and UV. The bottles are delivered to customers in tight aluminium bags (reportedly resulting in a two-year shelf-life), are compliant with SP-400 regulation, and may be used with standard screw cap and child-resistant closures as well as US FDA, EU regulations and USP 38/NF 33 supplement 1<671>.

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(Funeral of Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez)
Today is Memorial Day, so we’re going to start with the picture of a funeral of a soldier that died in service to America in 2003. A hero. An immigrant soldier. A soldier that came to this country illegally.
On January 25, 2017, Trump scrawled his name on an executive order “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States”.
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With that one chaotic signature, he began a process that deliberately criminalizes peaceful members of our communities, disrupts our businesses and separates children from their parents.
Trump, himself an abuser of immigrants, began the order with “Many aliens who illegally enter the United States and those who overstay or otherwise violate the terms of their visas present a significant threat to national security and public safety.” This assertion contradicts factual data from many reputable sources (here, here and here) and essentially calls out millions of our neighbors as possible terrorists.
He then proceeds to strip all common sense and discretion from law enforcement officers.
“…We cannot faithfully execute the immigration laws of the United States if we exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement.”
Suddenly, the hardworking population that picks and cooks our food, cleans our homes, cares for our children, and provides the hard physical labor native-born US citizens are reluctant to perform, is deemed indistinguishable from violent felons.
The racist and xenophobic GOP narrative of criminal-immigrants has flooded our newsfeeds. Their carefully curated vocabulary of criminality (“illegals, illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, undocumented aliens, amnesty) is no accident. They’re deliberately warping our perception of immigrants until we no longer protest the human rights violations and cruelty that are the hallmarks of their campaign.
The truth is that these people are as much economic refugees as the immigrants in our own family stories we’re so anxious to connect with on Ancestry.com. The criminalization narrative also deliberately ignores the US policies that created the hardship in their homelands that forced them to leave. (Here and here)
Daily, we read stories that fall unheeded onto our blunted consciousness of human decency.
– These Republicans Want to Put Ankle Monitors on the Sponsors of Undocumented Children
– Women Are Now Living With the Fear of Deportation If They Report Domestic Violence.
– Immigration Detention: Worse Than Death? “I would rather die than spend one more day in detention.”
– “No Place Is Safe”: This Is What Happens to Kids When an Undocumented Parent Is Detained
– Mother Locked In Family Detention Attempts Suicide To Free Her Kids. A federal ruling says they should’ve been freed months ago. “Family Detention” centers, where both mothers and children are imprisoned together, are expected to expand from 3500 beds to 20,000.
But today is Memorial day, and let’s take this opportunity to take this narrative back from those who terrorize and slander our nation’s loyal and patriotic economic refugees.
Immigrants have served the US military from the beginning of our country. Irish and German immigrants comprised 18% of the Union Army during the Civil War. During WWI, over 190,000 earned citizenship through military service. The tradition of immigrants fighting and dying in service to our country continues today. Combined, veterans who are immigrants or children of immigrants account for 12 percent of the total veteran population.
“Many foreign-born residents carry a desire to serve, migrating from countries with rich histories of military tradition. In Mexico, for example, the army functions not only as a defense against external attacks but also as an indispensible aid to public works programs. Many who choose to immigrate and seek citizenship hope to continue in this tradition of military service and reflect their patriotism inherent in their commitment to a new home…More than one in five of the immigrants who lost their lives between September 11 and the end of 2013 were originally from Mexico, making it the most common country of origin for fallen, foreign-born service members…”
One of the first service members to die in Iraq was Lance Cpl. Gutierrez, an immigrant from Guatemala who came to the US illegally. He was killed In a tank battle In Iraq in March 2003. According to CBS News, “The heroism and sacrifice of non-citizens was barely known — until Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez died in battle in Iraq. He was granted citizenship posthumously.
So let’s change the conversation. Refuse to accept the GOP’s racist criminalization. Let’s create a framework of language that supports and encourages our economic refugee population in their most American of journeys. Demonizing them while needing what they contribute to our society is wrong. And on this day, Memorial Day, doing that while honoring their members for their heroism, patriotism and sacrifice is unthinkable.


You know you're a neocon when...
...you go to the library to read Commentary and find yourself spending four dollars to xerox the entire issue instead.
Maybe it's even time to get a subscription. It'll go nicely with my New Yorker.
So, let's see. You used to call yourself a liberal. But things changed after 9/11, and now you're not sure what to call yourself anymore. Try "neo-neocon" on for size.


To repeat my earlier post, 19 Nobel Laureates endorsed Hillary Clinton. And when the WSJ surveyed all previous members of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, spanning eight presidential administrations, none, Republican or Democrat, supported Trump.
The train of American electoral politics has gone further and further “off the rails” in recent decades. A number of suspected culprits have been identified as the specific fundamental flaw in the system that needs to be fixed. Gerrymandering. Campaign finance. Economic inequality. “False balance” in the media.
It is strange that the public debate gives so much attention to these four explanations — and a few others like them. Those diagnoses don’t offer a ready remedy that is in the hands of the people. There is one remedy that is directly in the hands of the people and that if applied can also fix the other flaws over time. That is voter turnout.
Only 71 percent of U.S. citizens of voting age have registered to vote, and only 54 percent of eligible voters go to the polls in a presidential election. Many young people are disillusioned with the political system and feel that they have no power to affect political outcomes, being up against the rich and powerful. So they don’t register or don’t vote. The same is true of members of particular socioeconomic groups. Hispanics and Asian-Americans have particularly low voter turnout rates [48 and 47% in the 2012 election, respectively, as compared to 64% for whites and 67% for blacks.]
Diagnoses of the fundamental flaw in American politics
One of the most common diagnoses of where American politics has gone wrong is the belief that too much money now goes to people in the upper 1% of wealth and that too much money in turn flows into politics. Actually, these two factors are distinct. Plenty of powerful interest groups use donations to get their way on individual issues of particular interest to them, without the concurrence of the upper 1%. The NRA is one example.
There is a lot of validity to concerns about money in politics. But it is worth noting that in US politics, money overwhelmingly goes – not into the pockets of corrupt officials – but rather into the advertising and get-out-the-vote drives of election campaigns. A citizen who stays home rather than vote his preference of the two major candidates thus has the same effect on the outcome as a fat-cat who gives money to the opposing candidate’s campaign.
What is to be done? We need a more equal distribution of income and a reversal of the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United, which opened the floodgates for political contributions by corporations. But the people can’t enact such policies directly.
This year, as usual, the Democratic candidate favors policies that will promote economic equality alongside growth: a more progressive tax system, higher wages, universal health care insurance, financial regulation, and many more. With enough support in Congress, a second President Clinton would enact these policies. As usual, the Republican candidate is on record favoring the opposite positions: tax cuts for the rich, lower wages, abolition of Obamacare, and the dismantling of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. Similarly, the Democrats would like to reverse Citizens United. As usual, the Republicans are opposed. It is likely that Hillary Clinton would appoint Supreme Court justices who would eventually help overturn the decision. And so on.
Other diagnoses have to do with the observation that so few congressional districts are in play in the general election, with most locked up by one political party or the other, giving incumbents an incentive to go to the extremes, since only the primary contest is a threat. In that case, the fundamental problem may be gerrymandering, the deliberate drawing of congressional district boundaries to maximize political advantage for one party or the other, rather than according to geographical sense. Electing more Democrats, at the state level, is an achievable pre-requisite to redistricting reform, more than the other way around.
If those citizens who think that people like them have no effect do exercise the ballot box, they can not only have an effect in this election but change the system for the future. If, on the other hand, they simply gripe to their friends or write angry blog posts (“the system is rigged”), rather than voting for a major-party candidate, they will indeed have no effect.
Voter turnout in other countries
The problem of low voter turnout does not apply to the US alone. Consider last June’s vote in the United Kingdom on whether to leave the EU. Most young folks were unhappy that the referendum came out in favor of Brexit. Almost 75% of voters aged 18-24 wanted Britain to stay in. They had come to see themselves as cosmopolitan citizens of Europe to a far greater extent than older voters had. Suddenly the English Channel has become much wider, and is likely to remain so for the rest of their lives. Who to blame? Only a third of that 18-24 age group turned out to vote, as compared to more than 80% of those over 65. The implication is that if the voter participation rate among the young had been even fractionally closer to the rate among the old, the outcome would have been in favor of Remain instead of Leave.
It is true that many other countries have figured out how to achieve higher electoral participation. Voting is mandatory, for example, in Australia and some other countries. The fine for noncompliance is very small. But Australia achieves 94% voter turnout, compared to an estimated 57% in the 2012 US presidential election. And the US is almost the only country to follow the anachronistic and inconvenient habit of scheduling Election Day on Tuesdays. Most countries vote on the weekend.
One might argue, however, that if any citizen is too lazy or uninformed or self-involved or uninterested in politics to take the trouble to vote, so be it. Why drag them to the polls? Perhaps it is just as well if the views of the uninformed or self-involved don’t carry as much weight as others! I am not going to take a position on this question one way or the other. Let’s consider only those citizens who are as informed and civic-minded as the rest of us, but are alienated by the system and think that “votes of people like them” don’t make a difference. There are, by far, enough of these people for their votes in fact to make the difference to the outcome.
By way of illustration, consider those who do go to the polls but feel alienated with America’s two-party system and so choose a protest vote for a third-party or write-in candidate, thus having the same effect on the outcome as if they had not voted at all. Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate in the 2000 election, received 2.9 million votes. If a tiny fraction of them had gone to Al Gore it would have changed the outcome. The Democratic candidate officially lost Florida by 537 certified votes. Nader received 97,421 votes in Florida [1%]. Thus 1 % of his votes  would have made easily the difference. Not all Nader voters would have preferred Gore to Bush; but if one takes into account the evidence (which is that they would have favored him by almost two-to-one over the Republican candidate), the implication is that eliminating the Nader option in Florida would have given Gore a net boost of 17,548, more than 30 times what he needed to win!
Thus Gore would have received not only a majority of the vote among voters, as he did, but also a majority on the Supreme Court as well. It would have saved us eight years of George W. Bush and everything that flowed from his policies. What if one is suspicious enough to assume that those in power in Florida would have figured out a way not to count the additional votes in that state? The Nader vote In New Hampshire alone would also have been enough to give Gore a clear majority in the Electoral College.
Yes, I know, Nader argued that he was building a grass-roots movement for the longer term. In other words, causing Bush to become president by taking votes away from Gore in 2000 was worth the cost because now the Green Party survives …to elect Donald Trump president in 2016 by taking votes away from Hillary Clinton! And so on every four years.
Obama said it at the Democratic National Convention in July, when a few delegates booed the mention of Trump’s name: “Don’t boo. Vote!” It’s trite, but true. Voting is the solution to what ails America.
Hillary Clinton has been saying that the US economy does much better when a Democrat is president than when a Republican is. When the press goes to fact-check the claim, they can be forgiven for having a presumption that it can’t be 100 per cent true. After all, if it were completely true, then wouldn’t we all already know it?
Well, there is no other way to say this: The claim is 100 per cent true.
The qualifier is that the president is only one of many influences of what happens to the economy. Luck of course plays a big role. Hillary’s speeches don’t include footnotes making this obvious point. But that doesn’t justify a rating of only “half true” for Clinton’s claim, as some fact-checkers proclaim. And the surprising reality is that the difference in economic performance between Democratic and Republican presidents is sufficiently systematic that it cannot be statistically attributed to mere chance alone.
The gap in economic performance
She says (e.g., June 5, 2016), “It is a fact that the economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House.” What is the evidence for this claim?
A timely and careful statistical study was published in April in the American Economic Review [106(4): 1015-45] by Alan Blinder and Mark Watson of Princeton University: “Presidents and the US Economy: An Econometric Exploration.” The starting point, the central fact, is that the rate of growth of GDP has averaged 4.3 percent during Democratic administrations versus 2.5 under Republicans, a remarkable difference of 1.8 percentage points. This is postwar data, covering 16 complete presidential terms—from Truman through Obama. If one goes back further, before World War II, to include Hoover and Roosevelt, the difference in growth rates is even stronger.
The results are similar regardless whether one assigns responsibility for the first quarter of a president’s term (or the first few quarters), to him or to his predecessor.
Of course many political actors in Washington influence the course of events. Blinder and Watson find that the economy does a bit better if the Democrats have appointed the Federal Reserve chairman or if they control the Congress. But these conditions are not necessary for the central result: it is the party of the presidency that makes the big difference.
Furthermore, over the 256 quarters in these 16 presidential terms, the US economy was in recession for 1.1 quarters during the average Democratic presidency and 4.6 quarters during the Republican terms, a startlingly big difference. These gaps in performance are highly significant statistically. The odds that they are the result of mere chance are 1 in a 100 or less.
The two Princeton economists find superior results by other measures as well, including the change in unemployment during the president’s term and the performance of the stock market. The unemployment rate fell by 0.8 percentage points under Democrats on average and rose by 1.1 under Republicans, a significant gap of 1.9 percentage points. Perhaps better known than the other economic statistics, returns in the S&P 500 have been higher under Democrats: 8.4% versus 2.7 % for a differential of 5.7% (though this differential is not as significant statistically, because stock market prices are so volatile). Also the structural budget deficit is smaller under Democratic presidents (1.5% of potential GDP) than Republicans (2.2%). But the authors mainly focus on GDP.
Could it be chance?
One does not need to understand fancy econometrics to understand how unlikely it is that chance alone could have produced such big differences in outcomes. Economists use sophisticated econometrics when publishing an article in the AER, the top peer-reviewed journal; but sometimes simpler calculations are more effective. Consider some very simple facts, which anyone can easily check for themselves. The last four recessions all started while a Republican was in the White House. If the chances of a recessions starting during a Democrat’s term were equal to that of a Republican’s term, the odds of getting that outcome would be (1/2)(1/2)(1/2)(1/2), i.e., one out of 16. Just like the odds of getting “heads” on four out of four coin-flips. Not especially likely.
Still, four data points constitute a very small sample. So let’s go back ten business cycles. By my count nine of the last ten recessions have started under Republican presidents. The odds of the Democrats doing that well just by chance are about 1 in a hundred. (Anyone can easily check the recession dates for themselves, at the site of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee.)
An even more startling fact emerges from a review of the last 8 times when an incumbent from one party handed over the White House to a president from the other party. In four of these transitions, a Democrat was succeeded by a Republican; each time the growth rate went down from one term to the next. In four of the transitions, a Republican was succeeded by a Democrat; each time the growth rate went up. No exceptions, as Blinder and Watson point out. Eight out of eight. What are the odds of this happening by chance? The answer is the same as the odds of getting heads on 8 coin tosses in a row: ½ times itself 8 times, which is 1 out of 256. I.e., ¼ of 1 percent. Very unlikely.
Given the strength of these results, it is surprising that Hillary Clinton’s claims have been rated as only “half true” by some media, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitFact. Its source appears to be a particular fact-checker in Arizona. (I feel a personal stake in setting the record straight, because I am inexplicably quoted as supporting this finding that the claim is only “half-true.” I had told the Arizona interviewer that the claim of a performance gap was clearly true, even though finding the gap was not the same as proving its cause.) The “false balance” syndrome strikes again.
The first half of the Blinder-Watson paper reports the aforementioned numbers showing the difference in how the economy has behaved under the two parties. This difference seems incontrovertible. The second half of the paper tries econometrically to identify causes for the gap. Here the authors are less successful, because it is inherently a much harder task. The precise reasons for the surprisingly big differential are unknown.
They find some evidence of four or five factors that may together explain 56% of the gap between growth rates under the two parties: oil shocks, productivity growth, defense spending, foreign economic growth, and consumer confidence. It is impossible to know whether some of these five factors may have been influenced by the policies of US presidents. We know still less about the channels that might explain the remaining 44% of the gap. Thus it is impossible to say to what extent specific policies adopted by presidents are responsible for the difference in economic performance.
This is the reason that the fact-checkers give for rating Hillary’s claim as only half true. But her claim was that the gap in performance exists, not what were the specific causal channels. The claim that a gap exists is not the same thing as a claim to have identified the policies that contributed to the gap, let alone a claim that they explain the entire gap.
The fact-checkers also make much of a finding by Blinder and Watson that, contrary to widespread assumptions, fiscal and monetary policies are not more “pro-growth” (i.e., expansionary) under Democrats than under Republican presidents, and therefore can’t explain any of the performance differential. But, in the first place, presidents make lots of policy decisions beyond fiscal and monetary stimulus, including energy, anti-trust, regulation, trade, labor, foreign policy, and much more. There is no way to test econometrically this myriad of policies.
In the second place, leading Republican politicians claim to believe that easy money and high spending hurt the economy rather than helping it. At least, they claim to believe that when they are out of office, and especially if the economy is weak, as in the post-2008 environment. (When they are in office, they tend to find that they rather like spending money, even if the economy doesn’t need it. Remember, for example, when Vice President Richard Cheney reportedly said “Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter.” It should not be news that Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush cut taxes and increased spending, whereas Bill Clinton acted to bring the budget deficit down.)
Regardless, let’s be clear about the central finding. Hillary Clinton’s claim that the economy does better on average when a Democrat is in the White House is true, judging from past history. And the difference is large enough that it cannot be attributed to pure chance.


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Valentine’s Day is all about celebrating love, and there’s no sweeter way to introduce this to our little ones than through a heartwarming story that beautifully conveys affection. If you are looking for Valentine’s Day printable coloring pages, let me take it one step further for you! I’ve thought up of hands-on, play-based Valentine’s Day activities based off “Love from The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. This book, with its enchanting narrative and the endearing caterpillar at its heart, perfectly illustrates the number of ways love can show itself.
As a mom to three wonderful boys, I’ve seen firsthand how stories like this can not only highlight the joy of the season but also impart important emotional lessons in an accessible and engaging way. Inspired by this book and “Little Blue Truck’s Valentine,” my boys crafted the most adorable homemade cards for Valentine’s Day, filling our home with an extra dose of love. But, it’s my hope, whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day or just want to celebrate love, that this story and our Valentine’s Day printables brings as much warmth and joy to your family as it has to mine.
Scroll all the way down for the free preschool Valentine’s Day printables that goes along with this post!
Book-based Learning Quick Start Guide
- Read by watching the read aloud video of the book for the week.
- Learn by building connections between concepts from the story and your child’s world through active reading.
- Play one of preschool learning activities based off the themes from the book to engage in discussions, increase comprehension, and learn new preschool skills.
If you are new to TigerKubz’s Storybook-based Activity Guide, read the introduction post for more details.
Listen to LOVE From The Very Hungry Caterpillar Read Aloud Book
Have you read ‘LOVE from The Very Hungry Caterpillar‘ with your little ones yet? It’s another sweet little book by Eric Carle (author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and illustrator of Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?) where the famous caterpillar shows us all about love. It’s like he’s on this tiny adventure, discovering love on every page – with animals, in nature, just everywhere.
The illustrations are classic Carle-style and absolutely pop off the page. It’s a quick read, perfect for a little bedtime story or a cozy afternoon. It totally warms your heart, and, honestly, it’s a nice way to chat about love and kindness with the kiddos in a really simple, beautiful way. Check out the book below or purchase it on Amazon here!
Preschool Learning Activities Inspired by LOVE From the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Preschool Heart Counting Printable
Targeted Preschool Skill: Number recognition and counting
In the book, the Very Hungry Caterpillar shows love in many ways. Counting hearts can be a fun way to explore numbers while thinking about all the people we love.
- Red and pink construction paper
- For convenience, a heart printable is included in our free LOVE From the Very Hungry Caterpillar Preschool Learning Activities pack.
- Cut out hearts of different sizes or print out the math learning page in our learning activities pack.
- Write numbers 1-10 on them.
- Have your child place the correct number of small objects (e.g., buttons or pom-poms) on each heart.
“Sweet” & “Apple” Word Find and Letter Tracing Printable
Targeted Preschool Skill: Word recognition, vocabulary building, and fine motor skills.
This activity, inspired by “Love from The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” encourages children to identify and trace words, fostering an early love for reading and writing. It’s a fun way for little learners to practice letter formation and recognize simple, sweet words that resonate with the theme of the book.
- The provided printable activity sheet in our free LOVE From the Very Hungry Caterpillar Preschool Learning Activities pack
- Crayons or markers
- Have your child color the words “sweet” and “apple.”
- Guide them to trace the dotted lines of the same words below the coloring section to practice letter formation.
- Challenge them to find and circle the word “apple” and “sweet” in the word grid to sharpen their word recognition skills.
Color Mixing Hearts
Targeted Preschool Skill: Understanding colors and color mixing.
LOVE From The Very Hungry Caterpillar book is filled with vibrant colors that capture the essence of love. Explore this science activity on Valentine’s Day for children to explore and create new colors, discovering the magic of mixing them to make pink.
- Ziploc bags
- Red and white paint
- Fill a Ziploc bag with a dollop of red and white paint.
- Seal and tape the edges.
- Let your child mix the paint by pressing and squishing the bag.
Family Love Tree
Targeted Preschool Skill: Understanding family connections and relationships.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s journey is all about connections and showing love, much like the connections within our own families. This activity helps map out and visualize the love shared within a family.
- Construction paper
- family photos
- Help your child create a tree from construction paper.
- Cut out hearts and glue family photos on them.
- Attach them to the tree as leaves.
Targeted Preschool Skill: Gross motor skills and understanding the body’s response to exercise.
Use Valentine’s Day to emphasize the physical expressions of love, such as hugs. This physical exercise activity connects to how our bodies respond when we express or feel love, by observing our heartbeat.
- Perform a series of physical exercises with your child.
- Then, place your hands on your hearts to feel the heartbeat slow down as you rest.
- Discuss their observations after each physical activity.
Solving puzzles together can be a bonding activity, just like the caterpillar’s adventures and the various forms of love it encounters in LOVE From The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This promotes problem-solving and critical thinking in a loving context.
- Download the love-themed puzzles printable from our free LOVE From the Very Hungry Caterpillar Preschool Learning Activities pack.
- Crayons or markers for coloring
- Print out simple puzzles that feature Valentine’s Day scenes and characters from the book and color.
- Cut along the dotted line to make puzzle pieces.
- Let your child solve them and practice numbers by sorting the pieces from 1-5 for beginners and numbers 1-10.
Download Your Free Valentine’s Day Printable Preschool Learning Pack
Complete your ‘LOVE from The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ reading experience with our free, downloadable Preschool Learning Pack. It’s packed with fun, educational tools that supplement with our blog’s activities for a week full of love and Valentine’s Day learning. Perfect for busy parents – it turns story time into skill-building play.
Discussion Questions for LOVE From the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Posing questions during storytime is a key to children’s intellectual development. It boosts critical thinking, verbal abilities, and comprehension, while also expanding their knowledge. Observing your child’s responses provides insights into their understanding and uncovers areas for growth.
This technique turns reading into an engaging and instructive experience, promoting problem-solving and allowing a peek into their thought processes. More importantly, it’s also a special opportunity to connect and be a part of their educational journey. Utilize these questions to ignite meaningful conversations after each reading session.
- Close-Ended: “Can you find the red heart?” “How many hearts are there?”
- Open-Ended: “How do you show someone you love them?” “What does love feel like?”
- Connecting to the Child’s World: “Who are the people you love? Let’s make a special card for them!”
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Does your dog hate getting their nails trimmed? Haley’s never liked having hers trimmed and as she got older it became a real struggle. Literally! It was getting so stressful for both of us that I felt it was time to try a new approach. Did you know that you can ditch those old clippers and use a Dremel® tool to trim your dog’s toenails?
At first, I was a little nervous about firing up an electric grinder and having a go at Haley’s nails and I didn’t envision Haley being too thrilled about the idea either. Luckily, I discovered these two videos that helped explain the process.
How to Use a Dremel Tool to Trim Your Dog’s Toenails
Barbara and Dr. Matheson did a great job of explaining how to trim nails, but I want to focus on how to get your pup to that point where they are relaxed and comfortable with a Dremel pedicure. It’s important to use positive reinforcement to condition a dog to the tool and it’s especially important for dogs like Haley that are already stressed about their nails being trimmed. Here’s my step-by-step approach.
Conditioning Your Dog to Be Comfortable with the Dremel Tool
Step One – Get Your Dremel Tool Ready
I purchased the Dremel 8220 model because it’s rechargeable and easy to handle. It also has a nice variable speed range, rather than just a low and high setting. Install the sanding drum accessory, then slide a coarse sanding band onto the drum. Make sure the tool is fully charged. Note: Never use any solid grinding stone or grinding wheel accessories as they generate too much heat.
Step Two – Get Yummy Treats
I like to use real food that both Haley and I can eat, like cooked chicken or ham. Break whatever food your dog loves into little pieces and put them in a small bowl.
Step Three – Build Anticipation
Dogs always want what we have, so I create the illusion that the food is for me. I take the Dremel tool and food into another room so Haley has to follow me, rather than me approaching her with the tool. It helps to build some excitement because she’s pursuing something she wants and is more likely to want to participate in the conditioning.
Step Four – Give Your Dog Treats While Conditioning
Take a bite of the food yourself (now you see why I use real food, haha!) then turn on the Dremel tool. Practice giving your dog food while the tool is running, then stop the treats when it’s turned off. You’re conditioning your dog to associate good things with the sound of the Dremel.
Build on Your Dog’s Success!
After your pup is comfortable with the sound of the Dremel tool and comes running when you turn it on, you’re ready to begin replacing Step Four with the conditioning levels below. Work through each level at your dog’s own pace and only proceed to the next level when they’re comfortable with the current level. Each session should be fairly short and a positive experience with lots of treats and praise.
Have your dog give you her paw while the Dremel tool is running. Treat each time she gives you her paw.
Ask for your dog’s paw then practice moving the running tool close to her paw and then away. Give her a treat each time she allows you to place it near her paw, working closer each time but at a pace she’s comfortable with. Practice on different feet.
While holding your dog’s paw and stabilizing a nail, touch the Dremel tool to the nail for just a moment, then set it aside (while still running) and give your dog a treat. If your dog is startled by the touch, end the session and practice again later with just one touch again. Haley was extra sensitive at this stage. When she seemed resistant, I would touch the Dremel tool to one of my fingernails then eat some food. Yep, a little psychological warfare did the trick. She felt like she was missing out on getting the treats and would give in and cooperate.
Work on touching two or three different nails for just a moment then give a treat. Practice rotating on all four paws.
Now you’ll begin actually grinding away some of the nail material as you increase the amount of time and pressure spent on each nail. Remove just a little bit of each nail before giving a treat and moving on to the next one. End the session when your dog seems to need a break.
Work towards grinding each nail on each paw while still giving lots of treats for your pup’s cooperation. Hopefully, by this time, your dog will be much more relaxed but it’s always nice to work in an occasional belly rub to make the trimming sessions more enjoyable for your dog.
Continue working with your dog until you can grind all of her nails in one session while slowly decreasing the number of treats.
Here, Laurie Luck demonstrates what a positive nail trimming session looks like.
It takes some patience and lots of treats at first, but if you take a few minutes each day, you can work through the levels pretty quickly. I’m so glad I decided to give the Dremel tool a try with Haley. It’s actually fun working on her nails now. Instead of stressing out when she would see those old nail trimmers, she now comes running every time she hears the sound of the Dremel tool. Success!👍
If you want to start using a Dremel tool to trim your dog’s toenails, be sure to watch the videos first and check with a local groomer if you need any additional help. Now it’s your turn to share your nail trimming tips with us in the comment section below!
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Employees must also make social security contributions at the following rate: 9%
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Employees are entitled to 180 days of paid sick leave per year.
Employees on a permanent or fixed-term contract typically receive 100% of their salary (paid by the employer) for the first 3 days of sick leave. Additionally, they are also paid for the first 2 instances of sickness absence in a year.
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Female employees in Italy are entitled to a minimum of 5 months of paid maternity leave, at 100% of their salary.
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