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Donald Trump threatens to kill NAFTA in push for Congress to approve new trade deal
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will withdraw the United States from NAFTA “in the not-too-distant future” in a hardball attempt to pressure Congress into voting to approve his new agreement with Canada and Mexico.
The original North American Free Trade Agreement would otherwise remain in place if Congress rejected or delayed the new agreement, which Trump calls the USMCA and Canada calls CUSMA or “the new NAFTA.” A Trump withdrawal would give Congress a take-it-or-leave-it choice between the new agreement — which is highly similar to the original — and no agreement at all.
The new agreement has been criticized on various grounds by both Democrats and Republicans, leaving its prospects for passage uncertain. The Democrats, who will take control of the House of Representatives in January, have made clear that they do not plan to approve the deal any time soon.
Trump’s announcement late Saturday introduced new uncertainty into the continental trading relationship just a day after the leaders of the three countries held a signing ceremony for the new agreement, at which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the agreement “lifts the risks of serious economic uncertainty” that hovered over the negotiations themselves. Trump’s words suggested the state of bilateral trade will remain uncertain as long as the president is in office.
Advocates of free trade say a withdrawal would be a foolish gamble with the American economy. Trump has said he doesn’t see it that way, since he believes the economy was stronger without NAFTA than it is with it.
“Congress will have a choice of the USMCA or pre-NAFTA, which worked very well,” Trump told reporters on the flight back from the G20 summit in Argentina.
“Congress will have a choice of approving the USMCA, which is a phenomenal deal. Much, much better than NAFTA. A great deal, ” he said. He again described NAFTA as a “disaster,” although the new deal he calls “incredible” retains almost all of NAFTA’ s central features while making a smattering of substantial changes.
The Canadian government declined to comment on the record. An official said on condition of anonymity, “ We are focused on our domestic ratification process and not a process that is internal to the U.S.”
Trump’s announcement is likely to displease businesses across the continent, which have hailed the new agreement for preserving tariff-free North American trade and for allowing them to make investment plans with some degree of confidence that the rules will not soon change.
It is unclear whether Trump has the power to actually withdraw the U.S. from NAFTA. Some experts say he does, some say he doesn’t. The move would undoubtedly be challenged in U.S. courts, which have not yet weighed in on the question.
A Canadian government official told the Star last year that they have concluded “there’s a pretty good chance that he could just do this.” The official said the government also believed the old Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, which preceded NAFTA, would snap back into force if he did.
Others say it would not be so simple.
It is also unclear whether Trump will indeed proceed. Trump has repeatedly delivered trade threats he has not carried out, and his aides — joined by Trudeau — have talked him out of withdrawing from NAFTA before. He has sometimes appeared to use harsh trade rhetoric primarily to appeal to parts of his political base, and his tough talk on Saturday came immediately after he announced that he had taken a conciliatory stance in a trade meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, postponing a plan to increase tariffs on Chinese products. (Source: Toronto Star)


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This quick Soya Chunks Biryani is an easy biryani that can be prepared within 30 mins and be packed for your Kids Lunch Box.
If your kids love soya chunks, then this is surely a preparation you can add to your menu. Both Konda and Chinnu love Soya Chunks, while Peddu likes the just the rice. So I just parse the soya from his box and pack this. This quick version is adapted from my lengthy Mushroom Soya Chunk Biryani which is in different steps and can't surely be managed on rush morning hours.
Since the kids like it, I decided I would make the steps easy and do a quick version. Luckily for me, all of the loved it. So since then, I have been doing this once a week for their lunch box. When Bhawana wanted us to share Lunch Boxes for Kids in 30 mins, I decided I would take the pains of clicking the step by step pictures as well.
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Quick Soya Chunks Biryani
Quick Soya Chunks Biryani
For the Rice
- 1 cup Basmati Rice
- 2 tbsp Cooking Oil
- 2 tsp Ghee
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp Red Chili Powder
- 1/2 Coriander powder
- A Pinch Turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp Garam Masala
- 1/2 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
- 1 cup Soya Chunks
- 1 cup Coconut Milk thick milk
- 1 Bay leaf
To be ground
- 4 to 5 Shallots / Small Onions
- 1/2 cup Onions
- 2 to 3 Green Chilies
- Handful Coriander leaves
- Handful Mint leaves
- 3/4 cup Tomatoes
- Wash and soak the rice for 10 mins, meanwhile, bring a pot of water to boil with 1/2 tsp salt, a pinch of turmeric powder added. When it starts rolling boil, add the soya chunks and simmer for 5 mins until the soya chunks get cooked. Drain and squeeze it out excess water once it cools down.
- Grind all the ingredients listed under to be ground.
- Heat a nonstick pan with oil and 1 tsp ghee, add the bay leaf and then the ground masala along with ginger garlic paste.
- Cook on high till the masala lets out oil and is well cooked. This takes about 5 to 7 mins on constant stirring ensuring it doesn't get burnt.
- Add salt, turmeric powder, red chili powder and combine well.
- Now add the squeezed soya and the coconut cubes.
- Add 2 cups of water and garam masala. Drain the rice from water and add to the pan. Bring to a boil
- Transfer the whole content to a pressure cooker and cook for 3 whistles.
- Once the pressure falls down, add 1 tsp of ghee and fluff well.

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Although some guidance is available, the DM must concoct rules for a soarwhale gondola
The Arms and Equipment Guide (Mar. 2003) says, "A gondola is commonly slung under a soarwhale to haul passengers," and, "Riding a trained soarwhale requires a gondola or howdah" (89). And, as you've noticed, the howdah (AE 78-9) (200 gp; 100 lbs.) seats only four Medium creatures comfortably, insufficient for most parties (adventuring, birthday, or cocktail).
Unfortunately, that kind of gondola isn't described elsewhere. For example, the Explorer's Handbook (Aug. 2005) discusses aerial lift gondolas suitable for ferrying passengers to and from docked airships (78-9). Also, City of Stormreach (Feb. 2008) mentions in passing gondolas suitable for navigating canals (40) and, similarly, the Fiendish Codex II (Dec. 2006) describes the city of Abriymoch—on the Phlegethos, the fourth layer of Nine Hells—where "scorched and dented gondolas forged of Baatorian green steel" are used by "[b]arbazu ferry pilots [that] pole their way to the client’s destination while burning magma splashes and sprays into the boat" (52). (Like this fine answer's list of alternative airship sources, this only shows the dearth of information available concerning these particular rules.)
However, the Arms and Equipment Guide itself provides statistics for both the Colossal zeppelin (AE 55) (60,000 gp; vehicle) that measures 10 ft. × 40 ft. and the Gargantuan dirigible (AE 55 47) (35,000 gp; vehicle) that measures 10 ft. × 30 ft. I don't know how accurate it is to have the bare-bones maps of these vehicles offer no differentiation between these lighter-than-air vehicles' gasbags and their underslung compartments, but the text makes it seems like entire vehicle is one unit suitable for habitation.1
Thus these airship's sizes seem like a suitable starting point for concocting a house rule about a soarwhale gondola. The soarwhale's light load is significant at over 20 tons, and that's likely capacity sufficient for such a gondola to be constructed from reasonable materials and have capacity enough left over for crew, supplies, an alchemist lab, a petting zoo, a casino, or whatever.
Keep in mind, however, that the Arms and Equipment Guide soarwhale (89) has the entry Face/Reach: 40 ft. by 80 ft./15 ft. and the DM should adjust this for the 3.5 revision to at least 30 ft. × 30 ft. (For comparison, the Colossal monstrous scorpion and spider (Monster Manual 288 and 289, respectively) have Space/Reach: 40 ft./30 ft. while most other Colossal creatures have Space/Reach: 30 ft./20 ft.). So despite the soarwhale's carrying capacity, the DM may restrict a soarwhale's gondola size to one size category less than the soarwhale (much like a mount is limited to accommodating a rider of, at most, one size category littler than the mount).
War Story: Soarwhale fashion show
PCs in a high-level pirate-themed campaign I DMed had grown attached to their ship, but the limitations of ocean travel were slowing them down. So the PCs found a soarwhale, befriended it, and simply slung their entire ship underneath the soarwhale!2
Frustratingly, vehicles aren't often given weights in official material—some of the Arms and Equipment Guide's land vehicles are given weights, yet others aren't, and neither are weights listed for Stormwrack's vessels (95-103) (although its maps are very pretty). Unofficial material isn't much help either—ship weights are absent from Mongoose's Seas of Blood (Dec. 2001), FFG's Seafarer's Handbook (Jan. 2002) and AEG's Swashbuckling Adventures (July 2002), for example.3
Eventually, after some discussion and Web searches, we realized that even relatively small ships like the Atyla are ridiculously heavy. I ruled the soarwhale needed both a suit of +1 easy travel (Magic Item Compendium 10) nonhumanoid Colossal studded leather (3,600 gp; 240 lbs.) and a belt of the wide earth (MIC 204) (10,000 gp; 0 lbs.) (which, as magical clothing, conveniently resizes to accommodate the wearer, and I ruled that since a quadruped can wear a belt so can a soarwhale) to quadruple the soarwhale's medium load to about 180 tons so that it could carry cargo, crew, and the ship itself without slowing it.
Nonetheless, the PCs quickly realized the soarwhale's speed of 20 ft. was still too slow. They rectified this by commissioning a custom magic item like the boots of striding and springing (DMG 250) (5,500 gp; 1 lb.) except that the enhancement bonus was to the wearer's fly speed not land speed and that, instead of boots (which, obviously, a soarwhale can't wear), the item occupied the head magic item slot. The PCs chose to have the magic item look like a top hat.
1 In the interest of full disclosure, my familiarity with airships comes almost exclusively from the Car Wars air vehicles supplement Aeroduel wherein airship gasbags are typically so immense they rarely even fit on the game's map! In that game, the player controlling an airship's usually concerns himself only with the airship's gondola.
3 And folks scoff at the extraordinary ability wild empathy!
2 Of these, I sort of prefer Ships of Blood. While the rules aren't entirely to my taste, it offers an impressive variety of vessels. Although they lack deckplans, the side-view-only illustrations—which I wish I could credit directly to one of the book's nine interior illustrators—are both functional and evocative.


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I wrote a blog, which I didn’t post last week. I agonized and debated whether it was too offensive. Like the time during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, emotions and innuendo run high. I didn’t post it, but that ship hasn’t sailed, I still might.
Today, I’m at the Authors Incognito writer’s retreat. I didn’t sleep much last night. I did get some writing done, but I’m afraid I socialize too much. This is a great experience for writers. Periodically, we have sprinting periods. Like the name implies, we write for a time then the person with the highest word count, wins a prize.
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China’s central government has announced it will cut the purchase tax on eligible vehicles by 50% for the remainder of 2022 to help the auto industry and the market recover from the recent Covid lockdowns, according to local reports.
A report released this week jointly by the Treasury Department and the state tax authorities confirmed that the tax cuts will be effective from the 1st June to 31st December 2022. The discounts apply to purchases of vehicles up to CNY 300,000 (US$45,000) and with an engine displacement of up to 2000 cc.
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While milk consumption continues to fall in the U.S., sales of organic milk are on the rise. And now organic milk accounts for about 4 percent of total fluid milk consumption.
For years, organic producers have claimed their milk is nutritionally superior to regular milk. Specifically, they say that because their cows spend a lot more time out on pasture, munching on grasses and legumes rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the animals' milk is higher in these healthy fats, which are linked to a reduced risk of heart disease.

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This image shows where NASA's Curiosity rover aimed two different instruments to study a rock known as "Jake Matijevic."
NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and atmosphere.
From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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We’ve seen small screens, big screens, and even curved screens. But how about a device with a secondary display above the main screen? We’ve actually seen this idea before—Samsung did it with the Continuum back in 2010—but it appears LG feels the complementary display trend isn’t quite dead. Excited? Anyone?
According to previous leaks, the LG V10 is expected to sport a 5.7-inch Quad HD display, Snapdragon 808 processor, 16-megapixel rear camera, 3GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, and a fingerprint reader on the back. It’s difficult to say if that button on the back is indeed a fingerprint reader, but it looks a lot like what we saw introduced to the new Nexus phones, so it’s certainly a possibility.
As the new images show, the extra display will be used as an area to quickly access important apps. Things like camera, contacts, gallery, messages and more. It’s unclear if the display will function beyond merely offering quick access, but if that’s all it does, I’m not so sure people will be eager to pick the V10 up. Something like Samsung’s People Edge and Edge apps seems, which can be summoned from the edge of the device’s curved screen, seems like a more elegant solution.
We’ll have to wait and see just how functional and convenient the ticker display is on the V10. LG has an event planned for Oct. 1, so we should learn more then.
LG V10 pic.twitter.com/9JP3DoE1r9
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) September 30, 2015

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Organic Loops has launched Frame Drums, a sample pack featuring a tribal collection of upbeat percussion sounds from one of the most ancient musical instruments on planet earth.
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The Frame Drum is certainly one of the most ancient musical instruments and could possibly be the first drum ever invented! Organic Loops have stayed faithful to the original sound, as well as customising and augmenting it with modern production processes and methods. Over 250 Loops are included with Acoustic and Processed versions, capturing the rich tones and soft nuances to perfection, with top-spec studio gear. Expect to hear atmospheric sounds like never before!
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I'm often using FindOnClick to find duplicates between an existing folder ("source") and a new one ("incoming"). Works well, but my source folder is 200 GB large, for about 40000 files, so scanning takes quite a while.
I would suggest a cache file for the MD5 hashes and if the user wants to search that particular folder leave him 2 options:
1. rescan (removes existing cache)
2. use cache (skips files whose MD5 hash is already in the cache with the same datestamp. Only scan changed and new files)
This could make the function often much faster. In my case a search using the cache could result in scanning, say, 50 files instead of 40000.
Let me know what you think.
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You may not know his name yet, but chances are you’ve seen his work. In our inaugural music photography showcase, we sit down with independent photographer Ryan Muir.
We’re stoked to be powering tour dates for new music app LOST, unlocking the best shows via music’s hottest tastemakers.
It’s about time we gave a shout out to our neighbours: the eateries, watering holes and venues nearby that keep the Songkick team ticking.
We’ve looked into the future, and the second half of 2016 is just as killer as the first.
We’re partnering with the world’s largest professional community of music managers to ensure musicians are able to take control of their live experiences, and engage with fans in incredible ways.


Frank Lampard’s reaction after Olivier Giroud’s hat-trick goal against Sevilla tonight surely suggests that the frontman will get a start against Leeds.
Chelsea brushed past Sevilla this evening, largely thanks to Giroud’s contributions. The Frenchman netted four goals, including a perfect hat-trick, to ensure that the Blues would progress to the knockout stages of the Champions League as group winners.
Video: Olivier Giroud completes perfect hat-trick with superb header to cap off brilliant night for Chelsea
The striker, who has found opportunities hard to come by this term, headed into the back of the Sevilla net to complete his hat-trick and wheeled away in celebration. The camera cut to Frank Lampard, who looked absolutely delighted for him.
Giroud has a perfect hat-trick! ???
Left foot ?
Right foot ?
Lampard is loving what he’s seeing on the sideline! ? pic.twitter.com/WfMUok6rna
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) December 2, 2020
It’s Lampard’s ruling which has seen Giroud condemned to the subs bench. Having witnessed a Giroud masterclass tonight, all while having a beaming smile like that on his face, SURELY we’re going to see Giroud start against Leeds United at Stamford Bridge when the weekend comes around.
You can’t say he doesn’t deserve it!


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Wajurda Point lookout
Mimosa Rocks National Park
Wajurda Point lookout, in Mimosa Rocks National Park offers coastal and ocean views with seasonal whale watching opportunities.
- What to
- Hat, sunscreen, drinking water
- Please note
- There is limited mobile reception in this park.
- Remember to take your binoculars if you want to go bird watching or whale watching
Just a short drive north of Tathra, Wajurda Point lookout highlights the natural beauty of Mimosa Rocks National Park. It’s a great stop on a car tour of the NSW far south coast, and also offers access to popular fishing spots.
Accessed via the gently undulating Wajurda Point walking track, the lookout is perched atop a headland, offering spectacular ocean views of unspoilt rugged coastline. From the lookout, catch the fresh ocean breeze as you gaze north across Nelson Beach to Baronda Headland.
It’s a great spot to look for dolphins and do some whale watching in the cooler months. You might also see kangaroos, wallabies or echidnas darting through the forest. It’s a popular spot with experienced surfers keen to test themselves on the waves.
Using Google Street View Trekker, we've captured imagery across a range of NSW national parks and attractions. Get a bird's eye view of these incredible landscapes before setting off on your own adventure.
- National Parks Contact Centre
- 7am to 7pm daily
- 1300 072 757 (13000 PARKS) for the cost of a local call within Australia excluding mobiles
- Narooma office
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm. Office open by appointment only. Closed public holidays.
- 02 4476 0800
- 10 Graham Street, Narooma NSW 2546
- in Mimosa Rocks National Park in the South Coast region
Mimosa Rocks National Park is always open but may have to close at times due to poor weather or fire danger.

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So gorgeous! So depressing! The cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan hit their peak bloom last week—the earliest date recorded in official records and, some say, the earliest date of bloom for the trees in more than 1,200 years. And climate change definitely has a hand in the trees’ early beauty show.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has kept official records of blooming trees across the country, which it measures by tracking the blooms on a number of “benchmark” trees, since 1953. This year’s date of peak bloom in Kyoto—March 26—is the earliest date in their record-keeping, and is 10 days ahead of the 30-year average.
But data on the trees in the form of historical documents, diaries, poems, and other imperial records stretches all the way back to the early 800s (yes, that’s a three-digit date). Yasuyuki Aono, an environmental scientist at Osaka Prefecture University, has been combing through these records, and released them online as a dataset. The blooming of the cherry trees is a culturally significant time of year in Japan—there have historically been viewing parties and festivals on the arrival of the blossoms—making consistently tracking their peak season possible in historical documents.
Aono’s records aren’t totally complete—he said he’s missing a few years, which is understandable given the amount of time he had to cover. But according to these historical records, the previous early record was set way back in 1409—the blossoms hit peak on March 27 of that year.
It’s not a freak accident that the Kyoto cherry trees bloomed so early this year, or that historical data suggests the blooms are gradually getting earlier and earlier. The average temperature in the city for March last year hit 51.1 degrees Fahrenheit (10.6 degrees Celsius), a big increase from the 47.5 Fahrenheit (8.6 Celsius) average in 1953. Cherry blossoms are especially sensitive to changing temperatures—the trees only bloom for about two weeks each year—which means they provide a valuable barometer for how even minuscule shifts in climate can affect them.
This year’s extremely early bloom isn’t just confined Kyoto. All over Japan, cherry trees have been blooming earlier and earlier. Of the 58 “benchmark” trees the Japan Meteorological Agency keeps track of each year, all but 18 have already hit peak bloom—and 14 of those trees hit their peak in record time.
“We can say it’s most likely because of the impact of the global warming,” Shunji Anbe, an official at the observations division at the Japan Meteorological Agency, told the AP.
The cherry trees’s cousins in Washington, DC—planted in March of 1912 after Japan sent over more than 3,000 trees as a gesture of friendship towards the U.S.—are also in full bloom right now. And these trees are also trending towards earlier blooms as temperatures get warmer in the city. A 2011 paper predicted that the sensitive trees could bloom an average of 5 days earlier than the historic average by 2050 and 10 days by 2080 under a midrange emissions scenario—and as much as 13 days earlier and 28 days earlier under the highest range emissions scenario.
Sorry to ruin anyone’s blossom-viewing parties this weekend. Go, uh, enjoy the scenery!


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The XVI International AIDS Conference, August 2006, identified food and nutrition security as issues that are critically interlinked with HIV/AIDS and that need to be addressed along a continuum of prevention, treatment, care, and positive living. Four sessions focused specifically on the particular relationships between food security and HIV/AIDS; one was on HIV, Gender, and Development. This report synthesizes the key issues raised and identifies common themes.

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Google’s Autocomplete feature works wonders by saving us time and keystrokes. It also can be a source of laughter when suggestions are made according to the search activity of all web users. Out of curiosity, we decided to see what Autocomplete could teach us about different rap artists. The results were a hybrid mix of tragedy and comedy that could only be created by the rappers who inspire them.
1. French Montana is a garbage Muslim.
2. Wiz Khalifa is nothing because he’s terrible and dead.
3. Jay-Z is an ugly gay Freemason
4. Snoop Dogg is a dead Islamic Crip.
5. Pusha T is a wack Jamaican who is ready for beef with Drake.
6. Lupe Fiasco is an Islamic idiot.
7. Joe Budden is Black, broke, crazy and addicted to God knows what.
8. T.I. is a fake, a snitch and part of the Illuminati. He’s also a free agent if you’re looking to sign him.
9. Papoose is a wack Blood who also holds the title as the corniest rapper alive.
10. Andre 3000 is an overrated genius who holds the title as best rapper alive.
11. Azealia Banks is an annoying, ugly, wack bisexual.
12. Tyler, The Creator is gay, wack, weird and ugly.
13. Camron is a bisexual, broke Dominican snitch.
14. Chief Keef is a 17-year-old wack homosexual in jail.
15. Lil B is not just a joke but he’s also a gay troll who’s your friend.
16. Rick Ross is a scared, fake, fat Haitian.
17. Big Sean is an ugly, wack midget.
18. Kanye West is a racist ugly gay fish who’s not the father of Kim Kardashian’s baby.
19. J. Cole is boring.
20. Kendrick Lamar is an overrated wack Blood.
21. Curren$y is wack but he’s also the best rapper.
22. DMX is a crazy and broke homosexual.
23. Nicki Minaj is fake, ugly and wack.
24. Lil Wayne is a dead fake Blood.
25. Drake is soft, fake, Jewish and ugly.
26. Rocko is Future’s brother.
27. Future is Haitian.
28. Lloyd Banks is an underrated Puerto Rican
29. Tony Yayo is a Haitian who’s the worst rapper ever.
30. Birdman is an ugly, gay diplomat who happens to be a Blood.
31. Bun B is a dead professor teaching at Rice University.
32. Big Boi is an underrated Libertarian.
33. Young Jeezy is a snitching fake Crip.
34. Trinidad Jame$ is ugly and wack.
35. Eminem is a dead Christian who is also the best rapper.
36. Snoop Lion is a stupid gay joke.
37. Dr. Dre is a huge, dead homosexual real doctor.
38. Gucci Mane is a fat retard.
39. 2 Chainz is a 42-year-old horrible and wack homosexual.
40. A$AP Mob is a gay gang.


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Downregulation of E6 and E7 oncoproteins
Our research group has identified an anti-HPV compound and synthesized several therapeutic molecules based on the compound. Our research focuses on understanding the degradation pathway of E6 and E7 in HPV positive cancer cells upon the treatment with those anti-HPV compounds.
Heat shock factors
Heat shock factors (HSFs) are stress-inducible transcription factors that drive gene expression during cellular stress and developmental processes. The activity and function of HSFs are severely altered in diseased tissues in order to promote cell survival. Therefore, our research focuses on characterizing the mechanisms by which HSFs support oncogenic expression in the diseased tissues.
Dual-Targeting of HPV-Driven Cancers: E6 & E7 Oncogenes and Proteostasis Determinants in Focus
Our research is focused on establishing a novel dual-targeting therapeutic strategy, that targets both the unique E6 and E7 -dependent features and the general stress protection machinery to eliminate HPV-driven cancers.
WARTS & HPV
Warts are caused by HPV and our team has developed a natural medication to get rid of the warts. The research has led to the establishment of a startup that will focus on developing the product through regulatory pathway for market approval.
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O'Neill faces anxious wait on fitness of top goalscorer Fletcher for Chelsea visit
Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill is sweating on top scorer Steven Fletcher being fit to face Chelsea on Saturday.
The Scotland international has been unable to train this week due to the ankle injury which forced him to miss the much improved second half performance at Norwich City last Sunday.
Fletcher, who has scored six goals since his £10million summer switch from Wolves, has seen a specialist in London, had a painkilling injection in his ankle and will have a late fitness test before the clash at the Stadium of Light.
Sweating: Steven Fletcher could be fit to face Chelsea
Manager Martin O'Neill, who has confirmed skipper Lee Cattermole is out for at least two months after knee surgery, says Fletcher has a 50/50 chance of facing the European champions.
Defender John O'Shea, who has missed two games with a calf problem, could also return.
England Under 21 striker Connor Wickham, who made a rare and promising appearance at Carrow Road, is on stand-by to make his first start of the season.
O'Neill said: `Fletcher went down to see the specialist but he hasn't done anything yet in training so that's all I can tell you at the moment.
'We're doing a lot of work with Connor and the young players after training but the biggest thing for Connor is that he wants to do it and he wants to improve.
'He has the physique and natural attributes so it's really up to him.
'Don't start reading everything into a 45 minute performance. I thought he did really well in the Norwich game and he wants to show more aggression.
No chance: Lee Cattermole has been ruled out for at least two months
'Now's the time for him to start performing and getting something out of these games not just letting the minutes on the field pass him by.
'I've been here exactly a year and Connor played in my first game because Bendtner wasn't available.
'He came in and played in the next game and came off injured against Tottenham so he's found his career standing still, certainly at club level, but he's addressing it and that's the most important thing.'
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FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. – The Type-Approved BALPURE® ballast water treatment system from Severn Trent De Nora was selected for use on two new 115,000-dwt crude oil tankers being constructed for SeaRiver Maritime Inc. by Aker Philadelphia Shipyard. The crude oil tankers will be trading regularly in the Pacific Ocean on the United States' West Coast and Alaskan waters.
BALPURE features proven technology, ease of installation and operation, minimal maintenance and low operating costs. The two sets of BP 3000 systems will be installed as sub-assemblies, capable of treating ballast water flow rates of up to 3,230 m3/h. A 40-micron filter with IECEx explosion proof rated control system will be installed in the main ballast line in the pump room. The first installation is scheduled for December 2012, with the second installation to be completed by July 2013.
"It is crucial for shipping operators that the ballast water treatment systems they select are robust, cost-effective and have all the necessary approvals for international trading," said Jim McGillivray, BALPURE general manager for Severn Trent De Nora. "Severn Trent De Nora has made a formal submittal to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) for the designation of BALPURE as an Alternate Management System (AMS). With the acceptance of BALPURE as an AMS, the Type-Approved ballast water treatment system will be accepted for use on board vessels trading in U.S. waters, like the SeaRiver tankers, that need to comply with the USCG Final Rule."
Eighteen BALPURE systems have been installed / sold to international shipowners operating various vessel types such as LNG carriers, VLCCs, bulk carriers, pipelay vessels and more. The systems, which utilize electrolytic disinfection technology, are an advantageous and economical ballast water treatment approach on board crude oil tankers. BALPURE's slip stream treatment approach, where approximately one percent of the total ballast water flow is used to generate the hypochlorite disinfection solution, enables remote mounting away from the main ballast line. The slip stream treatment approach, coupled with a design that requires treatment only during the uptake of the ballasting cycle, offers significantly reduced power requirements when compared to competing technologies – ensuring low operational costs. BALPURE offers a virtually maintenance-free approach to ballast water treatment through the use of proprietary self-cleaning electrodes that eliminate the need for time-consuming chemical and mechanical maintenance.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Virtus Real Estate Capital (“Virtus”), a leading asset manager of alternative real estate property types, announced today it will be partnering with The NRP Group to develop a 283 unit class “A” multifamily project in San Antonio, Texas. The development, currently referred to as “Broadway Jones”, will offer affordable, high quality housing in the city’s highest demand submarket, the Pearl District.
Located along the historic River Walk of San Antonio, the Pearl District is one of the city’s most vibrant and affluent areas. Its location directly north of downtown makes the recently redeveloped mixed-use site one of the most attractive places for young professionals to live. With 30,000+ visitors weekly, the increasing popularity of the Pearl District has attracted multiple large office and retail developments that will bring new jobs to the area and continue to drive housing demand in the years to come.
Due to a unique Public Facility Corporation (“PFC”) in partnership with the San Antonio Housing Authority, Broadway Jones will provide affordable, high quality housing in the city’s hottest market, with 50% of units rented to tenants who earn 80% of the area median income or less. The growing housing affordability gap, caused by flat real wage growth and skyrocketing land and construction costs, has rapidly increased the demand for workforce housing, or “quality affordable housing for the mass renter market” in recent years, and the property type represents one of Virtus’ core cycle-resilient targets. The PFC structure of Broadway Jones is made possible by legislation that supports the construction of affordable housing in exchange for a tax abatement and will allow the development to provide the highest quality property in the submarket at a significant rent discount to the competition.
“Broadway Jones is a special project that we are thrilled to be part of with our valued partner, NRP. The idea that we can deliver best in class housing at an affordable price point in one of the most dynamic submarkets in Texas is really exciting,” said Kevin White, Virtus Managing Director, Acquisitions. “We believe in the need for high quality workforce housing. Construction costs escalation has made it increasingly difficult for developers to build high quality housing that is affordable, and it’s partnerships like this one that make these projects economically viable. This is our third project of this type in San Antonio and we are looking for other municipalities that would like to partner to bring this to their communities.”
This will be Virtus’ third development with NRP, a strategic partner who has developed more than 5,000 units in San Antonio over the last five years. NRP’s expertise and proven track record in the region will prove invaluable to Broadway Jones’ success.
“Our mission is to create exceptional rental housing opportunities for individuals and families, regardless of income, so we’re excited to partner on this development bringing quality apartment homes to this vibrant area of San Antonio,” said Dan Markson, Executive Vice President of Development for The NRP Group. “NRP has been connected with San Antonio for fifteen years and it’s been incredible to see the Pearl District evolve. We look forward to adding to the upward trajectory by providing housing options at a mix of income levels to this bustling community.”
Virtus Real Estate Capital, founded in 2003, brings thoughtful stewardship to the practice of real estate investment, delivering non-correlated alpha via cycle-resilient real estate. Over the last 15 years, Virtus has acquired 227 properties for a combined acquisition value of over $3.6 billion and has fully realized 172 property investments. With a strong and established track record, Virtus has proven to be successful in all phases of the market cycle. For more information, please visit www.virtusre.com.
About The NRP Group
The NRP Group is a vertically integrated developer, owner, builder, and manager of best-in-class multifamily housing. Since its founding in 1994, NRP has delivered more than 33,000 apartment homes, and currently manages over 20,000 residential units. The company utilizes the entire breadth of its in-house capabilities to fulfill its mission: creating exceptional rental housing opportunities for individuals and families, regardless of income.
Through its disciplined approach to vetting opportunities, NRP has established a track record of delivering impressive returns for investors. The company’s formidable size and depth of talent provides the experience and infrastructure necessary to execute developments of varying degrees of complexity and scope in both urban-infill and suburban locations, including market- rate, affordable, and senior housing. As a three-time recipient of the National Association of Builders Multifamily Development Firm of the Year and recognized Top 25 Developer by Multifamily Executive, NRP is leveraging its decades of practice by also providing construction and property management services to outside owners and developers. For additional information, visit www.nrpgroup.com.
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Russian Father and Son Indicted with Elaborate Card Fraud
A man from Russia along with his son is accused of committing multiple frauds following a declaration by the U.S. authorities of an indictment that delineates 9 counts of offences since 2007, as per federal prosecutors, published PCWorld dated January 18, 2012.
54-year-old Vladimir Zdorovenin, the Russian man, and Krill Zdorovenin, his son face charges of utilizing malware for garnering financial account particulars, identity information and card numbers from Internet-users during 2004-05. Further, they purchased card numbers that had been stolen and bought items they traded in personal enterprises online, it's alleged.
The indictment further alleges that both father and son surfed online for making illegal access to U.S-located victims' financial accounts from where they transferred alternatively tried doing so huge sums-of-dollars to their own controlled bank accounts.
Preet Bharara US Attorney of Manhattan stated that the Zdorovenins committed chains of cyber-crimes within Russia which attacked US nationals and inflicted chaos in their financial and other personal data, and subsequently utilized it for making fake buying as also for tampering with stock-prices. InfoSecurity published this on January 19, 2012.
Meanwhile according to FBI, nobody can escape its reach if he's someone who thinks that even by committing cyber-crime he can remain hidden behind protection and anonymity of IP address hosted in Russia. This' an absolute reminder the prosecution entails.
Adding to that, Assistant Director-in-Charge of FBI, Janice K. Fedarcyk said that the egregious behavior which Mr. Zdorovenin exuded demonstrated the reality of cyber-crimes' secret world, since he as well as his son apparently cheated end-users off their wealth via techniques of credit card compromising through fake businesses they'd set up. Besides, Zdorovenin allegedly loaded malicious software for gaining admission into consumers' brokerage accounts, buying or selling their stocks, and thereby tapering with their prices, the director recounted. InfoSecurity published this.
Reportedly, during May 2007, prosecutors sealed the indictment. On 27th March, 2011, Mr. Zdorovenin got held in Zurich from where he was extradited abroad, reaching USA on 16th January 2012. The authority assigned with the case has been Paul G. Gardephe, U.S. District Judge. Currently, Zdorovenin has jail sentence for up to 142 years.
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A married couple from Miami were arrested last week in connection with a December robbery at a Thousand Oaks hotel involving a “sugar daddy” setup, authorities said Thursday.
Ventura County sheriff’s deputies responded to the hotel around 9:15 p.m. on Christmas Eve after a 69-year-old man from Long Beach reported that he had been robbed, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
The man had met a 22-year-old woman on a website dedicated to matching women with men willing to provide them financial support, and the two had agreed to meet at the Thousand Oaks hotel.
After the two had spent some time together in a hotel room, a 22-year-old man entered and attacked the older man, taking a large amount of money and items before fleeing with the woman, authorities said.
The couple were identified as Jonathan and Cameron Perez.
When investigators learned that the couple’s vehicle was in the San Francisco Bay Area city of San Ramon, the Sheriff’s Office issued robbery and conspiracy warrants for their arrests, and the couple were arrested by San Ramon police at a hotel Jan. 27 on suspicion of felony second-degree robbery.


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In the near term, quantum sensors are being developed that can more accurately measure EV battery capacity, assess battery safety, and reduce vehicle weight. In the longer term, quantum batteries have been proposed that could dramatically improve the speed and efficiency of battery charging.
The energy remaining in an EV battery has been estimated using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond crystals to measure current flows. An NV center occurs when a single nitrogen atom and an adjacent empty space replace two carbon atoms in a diamond lattice. An NV center is very sensitive to external magnetic fields, and the fields can be measured precisely using light and microwaves. The much higher accuracy of the quantum sensors is expected to help improve EV range estimations and reduce range anxiety.
The accuracy of existing current measurement sensors is limited due to the need to measure currents from a few amps up to hundreds of amps. That makes the sensors susceptible to noise and limits their accuracy to about 10%. As a result, current battery monitoring systems assume the batteries are drained when the charge level reaches about 10%. That safety margin effectively reduces the achievable driving range.
To improve battery capacity monitoring, a pair of NV center sensors were placed on either side of an EV battery pack busbar. The sensors react to the magnetic field created by current flowing through the busbar. One sensor measures a positive value of the magnetic field and the other, on the opposite side, measures a negative value (Figure 1). Since both sensors are subjected to the same level of ambient noise, subtracting the measurements eliminates the effect of the noise and improves sensitivity. The differential NV center sensors were able to accurately measure currents from 130 A to 10 mA over a temperature range of -45 to 85 °C.
Quantum sensors are also being developed to speed up production line testing of EV batteries. Cell age testing is currently used where the batteries are charged and stored for up to 2 weeks prior to testing to identify good and bad cells. That increases costs and consumes a lot of energy.
A pilot-scale system has been developed using optically pumped quantum magnetometers (OPMs) for continuous end-of-line testing. The system has an array of OPMs to detect the small variations in the magnetic fields between good and bad battery cells. It’s been estimated that the use of quantum OPMs could save millions of dollars in a battery Gigafactory, reducing production costs by up to 30% and increasing production capacity by eliminating the need for time-consuming battery storage.
A quantum battery has been proposed that stores energy in the form of photons instead of using electrochemical reactions. The quantum battery would be charged using the phenomena of quantum entanglement and superposition.
In an electrochemical battery, the cells are charged independently. In a quantum battery, the cells are collectively charged (Figure 2). The improved performance of collective versus parallel charging is called the quantum charging advantage. For example, in a battery pack with 200 cells, quantum charging would be 200 times faster than conventional charging. Using the same power level available with a small home charger that takes 10 hours to charge an electrochemical battery pack could charge a quantum battery pack in about 3 minutes.
The use of quantum mechanical principles can result in EV battery state of charge sensors with much higher accuracies, reducing range anxiety and other types of quantum sensors can be used for end-of-line testing of batteries in a Gigafactory, speeding production and reducing costs. Further in the future, quantum batteries have been proposed that can be charged significantly faster than electrochemical batteries further increasing the utility of EVs.
Battery camera developed using quantum technology launches in key milestone for transport electrification, University of Sussex
High‑precision robust monitoring of charge/discharge current over a wide dynamic range for electric vehicle batteries using diamond quantum sensors, Scientific Reports
Non-invasive Current Density Imaging of Lithium-Ion Batteries, arVix
Quantum Charging Advantage Cannot Be Extensive Without Global Operations, arVix
Quantum sensors for end-of-line battery testing, UK Research and Innovation
Sizing Up the Potential of Quantum Batteries, APS Physics
Wide temperature operation of diamond quantum sensor for electric vehicle battery monitoring, Science Direct

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WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s absence at several international summits in Asia this week isn’t a snub, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters en route to the region.
The vice president was due to arrive in Tokyo later Monday on a trip that will also take him to Singapore and Papua New Guinea. He faces the challenge of reassuring allies about U.S. policy toward Asia amid increasing doubts about its commitment and consistency.
The U.S.’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific region “has never been stronger,” Pence told reporters in Alaska on Sunday night en route to Tokyo. Trump’s decision to skip the summits is “not in the least” a snub, he said, adding that the president is “where the American people would want him” — in Paris for World War I commemorations.
Trump, by opting to skip meetings hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and a gathering of the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation this week, became the first U.S. president not to attend since 2013, when then-President Barack Obama canceled his visit to deal with a government shutdown.
The president’s absence leaves Pence to fill a void that’s grown wider under Trump, who’s pulled out of a major Pacific trade deal, slapped tariffs on allies, and intensified a diplomatic and economic battle with China.
Pence will need to make significant announcements to overcome growing skepticism about the Trump administration’s commitment to Asia, said Anthony Nelson, director of the East Asia and Pacific practice at the Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington.
“There has been disappointment that President Trump did not commit to coming,” said Nelson, a former director of the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council. “Pence can try to say the right things, but without anything concrete that he can offer, it’s hard to think it won’t be overshadowed by what everyone knows the administration is thinking.”
Pence has the president’s full backing and plans to announce several new initiatives during his weeklong trip, according to a senior administration official. They include bilateral, trilateral and possibly larger initiatives that cover the digital economy, energy and infrastructure, said the official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.
As the top representative from the world’s largest economy, Pence will have an audience with several world leaders interested in hearing more about U.S. policy. The vice president begins his trip with meetings and a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Tuesday. Pence is also scheduled to have meetings with the prime ministers of Singapore, India, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Many of those leaders will be watching to see if Pence meets with Chinese government officials after the vice president — who rarely makes waves in public appearances — lambasted China in an Oct. 4 speech that reverberated around the region.
In the speech, made at the conservative Hudson Institute in Washington, Pence accused Beijing of mounting a “whole-of-government approach” to sway American public opinion, attempting to meddle in U.S. elections, stealing intellectual property and committing human rights abuses.
Pence will attend the Asian summits alongside Chinese leaders just days before Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires. That highly anticipated meeting follows months of intensifying antagonism between the world’s largest two economies, which have been engaged in an escalating trade war marked by tit-for-tat tariffs.
In Alaska, Pence said Trump is looking forward to meeting with Xi and hopes that “we can continue to have a positive and constructive and open relationship with China going forward.”
Announcing Pence’s travel, spokeswoman Alyssa Farah made an implicit reference to China, indicating that the vice president will have tough words for Beijing on issues like trade and militarization in the South China Sea.
Pence plans to “deliver the message that authoritarianism, aggression, and the disregard for other nations’ sovereignty by any nation in the Indo-Pacific will not be tolerated by the United States,” Farah said in a statement.
For his part, Trump has threatened to levy more tariffs on Chinese goods early in 2019 if no deal is struck with Xi before then.
Pence’s trip to Asia, and any meetings he has with Chinese officials, could set the tone for Trump’s meeting with Xi. But because Trump has been known to undercut members of his administration on foreign policy, Pence may face an uphill battle convincing regional leaders that he speaks for the president.
The Trump administration’s mercurial nature is well-known throughout the region, said Shi Yinhong, an international relations professor with Renmin University in Beijing.
Pence’s attempt to reassure allies about U.S. commitment to the region will probably be undercut by some of the images that come out of the summits, said Victor Cha, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
When leaders gather for the “family photo,” the vice president will probably be relegated to a less prominent position, while the heads of state — possibly including China’s Xi — will be center stage, said Cha, who served as director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration.
“It’s just a very bad optic when we don’t show up,” he said. “There are small things they are doing, but the overall message is going to be that there’s disinterest, and it’s not a priority. And that’s not good.”
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If you are a professional or an amateur photographer, it is very likely that you want to capture each and everything that intrigues you through your magic lenses. And what could be more intriguing than a mystical sunset? As a nature photographer, you will often be out on a quest to capture a perfect sunset moment.
But if only it were a piece of cake. To our dismay, it is not. Taking the perfect shot at the perfect moment is quite a deal and no work for the impatient and naïve. If you really want to know how to take sunset pictures without messing things up, Welcome! We are going to bail out some real sunset photography tips, both for the amateurs and professionals. Because no matter how much you know, you never know it all.
To begin with, we just talk about sunset photography in general and then gradually delve into the intricacies of technology that come with it. So let’s get started.
6 steps on how to take sunset pictures with DSLR
Choose a Spot
No matter what place you live in, there’s always a sunset point somewhere in your town. To begin with, go out on an exploration trip and find that place out. This is going to be your photography haven, the place where you will witness splendid, awe-inspiring moments that will really bring the photographer out of you. So pick a spot and sit tight at it. Take some time observing the place during sunsets.
This might take a few days. So be patient. This is your studying phase. Take mental notes on which angle projects a better view of the phenomenon. You can also click some dummy shots and see the difference in the frames shot from different angles. Be thorough with your study before come in for a real shoot.
This stage is crucial as it helps you identify the foreground for the sunset’s backdrop. It could be a formation of birds flying or the reflection of the sun in a lake, or just some building the sun is going behind. Choose the foreground judiciously a sit can make or break your shot.
Set Your Camera Up
Underexposure and high contrast is the way to go when capturing a sunset. It so happens that you are directly aiming at a source of light when you are going for a sunset shot. If you keep the exposure at normal levels, the brightness might mar the contrast and the image quality.
It is always suggested thus that you underexpose the sunset to make the colors appear richer and balance their appearance. Underexposure can be carried out in the manual mode or using fast shutter speed. You can also adjust the aperture priority mode to get a nice underexposure.
Experiment With Your Subject
Don’t be too busy looking at the sun. The sunset splays around a splendid splatter of beautiful colors that you won’t want to miss for anything. So it’s okay to deter from the routine sunset frames sometimes to capture the beauty littered elsewhere in the sky.
Don’t stick to a mode but keep shifting from manual to auto and back again as and when required. The aperture priority ode should be used when the sun is still up high and bright in the sky. However, you can shift to manual mode when the sky gets darker and the sun slips well below the horizon. That will be your judgment call.
Play With Shadows
The shadows and silhouettes created during the event of a sunset really create some interesting patterns in the foreground as well as in the background of the frame. And a good photographer knows how to play with these patterns. Try expanding the stretches of your imagination and see what you can do about the shadows that form. Clever use of shadows can really upgrade the caliber of your click.
Speed it Up
Speeding up the shutter speed can add extra effects to your shot. It often leads to the creation of illusions in a frame that aren’t real but seem to be so due to the high speed of the shutter. You can utilize this functionality of your DSLR to play with the vision of the viewer.
We hope that reading this article really helped you out and that now you know how to photograph a sunset perfectly. If you are a professional and are looking for the best place to sell photos online, sites like ShowFlipper can be the window for you to feature your photos. You can also sell sunset photography at auctions through online agents. E-stores like ShowFlipper, however, let you interact directly with clients. So gear up with your DSLR, capture your own sunset moment and then see it bring you a name as glorious as a sunset can be. All the best!


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The pituitary-gonadal axis was studied in 28 men with severe protein-calorie malnutrition in a Calcutta hospital. The men were selected for the severity of their malnutrition and for absence of other diseases. They had clinical findings of hypogonadism and low total and unbound plasma testosterone. During 2-5 months of refeeding there was clinical recovery and increase of plasma testosterone to normal. Plasma LH was high in malnutrition, decreased during refeeding, and remained above normal after refeeding. Some patients failed to show LH elevation in malnutrition despite low plasma testosterone. Plasma FSH was high in malnutrition, decreased during refeeding, and was near the level of normal Indian men after refeeding. HCG 4000 IU im per day for 3 days produced subnormal increments in plasma testosterone both in malnutrition and after refeeding; corresponding decreases in FSH occurred. It is concluded that the hypogonadism of protein-calorie malnutrition is primarily on the basis of diminished Leydig cell function. Appropriate pituitary LH response is intact in some patients, but is either absent or inadequate in others. Subclinical Leydig cell insufficiency, indicated by LH elevation and subnormal response to HCG, persists after refeeding has produced recovery from malnutrition and clinical hypogonadism. FSH elevation in malnutrition may be secondary to the reduced Leydig cell function.
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- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
- Clinical Biochemistry
- Biochemistry, medical


Telehealth Can Help During Coronavirus Pandemic But Health Clinics Can't Charge For It
State officials are urging the federal government to waive restrictions that prevent nonprofit health clinics from getting paid for providing care by telephone to Medi-Cal patients.
Many medical centers are encouraging patients to utilize telehealth services to keep them from overcrowding facilities which could stress the system and increase the risk of coronavirus transmission. But the government-funded health insurance that many low-income patients rely on does not pay providers for appointments that don't happen face-to-face.
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That means health clinics like the nonprofit Family Health Centers of San Diego won't receive payment for the nearly 300 daily telehealth appointments it began providing since the global outbreak reached San Diego County.
Family Health Centers of San Diego CEO Fran Butler-Cohen said the facility is losing money while it tries keep as many patients as possible from physically visiting the system's more than two dozen primary care locations.
"Every activity that we make with a patient over the phone — assessment, medical advice, diagnosing, prescriptions — none of that is reimbursable at this point because the patient is not physically in the site," Butler-Cohen said, "which everybody is saying keep the patients out of the sites as much as possible."
She said treating patients at the primary care level can keep their ailment from progressing to a point where they need to visit emergency departments, which are already stressed during the public health emergency.
The Department of Health Care Services this week requested the federal government waive the requirement of in-person care and allow telehealth treatment.
In a statement, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the move is necessary considering the current situation.
“To get Californians the care they need during this crisis, we need to change how that care is delivered and communicated," he said, according to Tuesday news release on his website. "By expanding our telehealth options we’re minimizing disruption to our health care system to prioritize care for those who need it most, while providing easier, more accessible options for other Californians seeking care.”
President Donald Trump previously expanded telehealth coverage under Medicare, which is soley funded by the federal government and serves those 65 years or older. However, the administration has not yet approved it for Medicaid, which in California is called Medi-Cal and funded by the state and federal governments.


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6 Ton 'The Sergeant' Off Road Kit
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