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Mesa County Commissioners address mental health system on the Western Slope
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Mesa County leaders are reaching out to the Colorado Department of Human Services regarding the mental health system on the Western Slope.
This comes as state agencies are conducting an audit of Mind Springs Health. Commissioners expressed their concern for the lack of mental health services on the Western Slope.
Commissioner Janet Rowland says one of the issues is the funding structure. The funding that is granted from the state for mental health services is distributed among three organizations, called the MSO, and they provide the money to all the providers that offer mental health services.
Rowland says the issue is the MSO is operated by the three CEOs of the three mental health centers in western Colorado.
”You know the people that I know and work with Mind Springs. I see as good people who get up every day wanting to do the best for our community, and it just isn’t happening. So I think it’s good that an outside perspective is being taken and that the state is taking a look and finding where the deficiencies they can improve,” said Rowland.
The commissioners want action to be taken to serve the community better.
Copyright 2022 KKCO. All rights reserved.

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News – Yemen – Saada
According to Al-Masirah Net correspondent, 3 women were killed and one was injured from the same family by US-Saudi airstrikes that targeted Hidan district, in Saada.
2 civilians were killed on Wednesday, following a raid by the US-Saudi aerial aggression on a citizen car in Sa'ada governorate.
Many districts in Sa'ada governorate are subjected to daily bombardments and raids by US-Saudi aggression, leaving behind thousands killed and wounded, destruction and material damage in the homes and farms of citizens.
This comes in the context of the crimes committed by the US-Saudi aggression against the Yemeni People since March 2015.
#US_Saudi_Aggression #3YearsOfWarOnYemen #Saada


“The Two Minute Mystic” is a series of short videos (about two-to-five minutes long) where I answer your questions about anything related to the things I talk and write about: human futures, inspiration, relationships, spiritual experience and practice, mindfulness, dreams, intuition, intelligence, research, a topic in the news… (example questions here). You can discuss the videos or ask further questions in the comments section. Alternatively, send your question to Marcus, “email@example.com”. Use a pseudonym if you prefer.
In the third installment of The Two Minute Mystic I answer the second part of Simon’s question, below, about censorship on Ted. (Watch the first part of my answer here).
This time I put on my mystic’s hat to answer the question:
“To what do you attribute the rigorous rejection of the ‘mystical’ and ‘spiritual’ by so many journalists and opinion-formers? (Like the recent example of Sheldrake’s TEDx talk being taken off the website)”
As you can see I had to change the title of this series to “The Two Minute Mystic”, as getting an answer in in under 2 minutes is tough!


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Strong winds and Heavy rain will slowly move eastwards through this morning becoming wet everywhere by midday.
It will dry up from the west during the afternoon. But remain wet in the South East. Most places should be dry by late evening with one or two showers clinging on in Kent.
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Love him, hate him or maybe you just got bored with him but expect to see more of Cardo Dalisay played by Coco Martin in the following months because “FPJ’S: Ang Probinsyano” is here to stay.
This was verified by ABS-CBN Corporate Communications head Kane Choa, saying that “it is not true,” and an official statement will be released soon.
On Wednesday, March 3, two news outlets informed the public about the show’s alleged end date, one with an article and the other with an art card.
The head of the article reads: “It’s ending. Coco Martin’s long-running action-drama TV series ‘FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano’ will have its final episode in April.”
The art card read: “Coco Martin’s ‘FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano’ to finally end next month.”
According to a recent article by PEP.ph, the crew at “Ang Probinsyano” will be returning for a “seventh cycle” next month where they will tape a month’s worth of episode.
“Cycle seven is not the final cycle,” according to their insider.
Meanwhile, entertainment columnist Ricky Lo posted an Instagram update, saying “FLASH: Coco Martin’s long-running Kapamilya action series “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano” has been extended until July this year, just two months short of its 6th anniversary. Got this good news from somebody who is involved in the production. Premiered in Sept. 2015, the series chronicles the exploits of the “unkillable” cop Cardo Dalisay played by Coco. Continue watching it on A2Z and other Kapamilya channels. Right on, Coco!!!”

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Rome from the Ground Up.
McGregor, James H.S.
Looks at many angles of this wonderful old city - the materials with which Rome was built;...
Birds and Other Plays.
The plays comprise Lysistrata, Assembly-Women
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We All Need to Go.
A tale of one person's travels across different nations and the toilets she encountered on...

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Our identity determines how we see ourselves.
How we see ourselves determines how we behave.
When we lose our identity, we lose our roots, uniqueness, purpose, focus and destination.
Many people, groups, institutions, churches and nations are gradually losing their unique identities and focus all in the name of uncritical imitation to please their audience and members.
Valuing and keeping your approved identity do not merely make you bad, static and outmoded.
Only imitate to improve your identity, do not imitate to destroy it.


While it might not look like it, Fallout 4 allows for excellent customization options if you understand the risks involved. The console commands on the game’s PC version will enable the player to change nearly every aspect of the game and become a god (at least as far as the game is concerned). This article will provide a brief overview of using console commands to improve your Fallout 4 experience.
Using Console Commands
You must enable the game’s developer and debugging console to use console commands. On US-based keyboard setups, press the ` (tilde key) to the left of the one key on the keyboard. UK-based keyboards often use the’ (apostrophe) key, but it largely depends on your system and keyboard settings.
To enter a command, you must open the console, input the command and its parameters, and press Enter. For commands, the letter case is not important (i.e., “TGM,” “tgm,” or “tGm” will work the same). You can use arrow keys to scroll through recently used commands if you need to repeat a specific command a few times.
However, it should be noted that some console commands are challenging or impossible to revert once input, and others will crash the game due to engine constraints and incompatibilities.
As a rule of thumb, it is good practice to create a new save before attempting any console shenanigans, no matter how simple they seem. Even basic console commands can have lasting effects when combined with others, and you can easily make the game unplayable with a few button presses.
There are two types of commands: targeted and untargeted.
For untargeted commands, they immediately affect whatever system they are bound to and all applicable characters. Targeted commands, on the other hand, will fail if they do not have a target. For targeted commands, you need to use target.command. This target is usually the ID of the target you wish to affect.
While the console is open, you get a cursor to move around. The mouse can select nearby characters and objects for targeted commands. A selected target will have its ID displayed above it. You can forgo leading zeroes if you want to type that ID in.
For more accuracy, stay close to the target so the cursor does not pick up any nearby objects. You can use the “player.” prefix instead of an ID (14).
You can also use the prid command to “load” a target instead of using its ID. Using the prid [ID] command, you can leave out the ID portion of subsequent targeted commands, which will apply to the ID used in prid.
Most Common Console Commands
You can find lists of all available console commands in the wiki, community websites, or user-made pages. There are quite a few, and not all are useful for getting you out of a pinch or snapping good screenshots.
Some of the most used console commands include:
- tgm – makes you invincible (God mode); toggled on or off.
- tcl – toggles collision on or off, allowing you to walk through walls, terrain, or objects.
- tfc – frees the camera from your character (togglable); if you use tfc 1, it will also stop time, which is useful for taking screenshots.
- tmm – toggles the HUD and menus; note that it also makes the console invisible, so you must repeat this command blindly to revert it.
- killall – pretty straightforward, this one.
- csb – removes blood effects from the screen, can’t be reverted.
- fov <number> – changes the field of view to the selected number (up to 180); the default is around 65. Using the command without a parameter, strangely, puts it to 75.
- coc <ID> – teleports you to the indicated area.
- target.tc – takes or removes control of the target; you need to use player.tc if you do not want your character to mirror commands.
- fw <weatherID> – changes the weather to the indicated one; default weather is 15e; see this list for more.
- help <name> – tracks down IDs of objects based on their name; if you want to use more than one word, put them in quotes. Use the “Page Up” or “Page Down” buttons to scroll through the results.
- resurrect <ID> – resurrects the target. You can use the targeting cursor to bring a deceased NPC back to life; it does not replace missing parts like heads or limbs.
Become a God in Fallout 4 With Console Commands
Tinkering with console commands is a great way to get better screenshots or make the game laughably easy. Ensure you have saved the game before doing something weird you can not revert.
What console commands do you use in Fallout 4? Let us know in the comment section below.


After three days of complaints from players, Riot Games has investigated and confirmed that there was an issue with the reported ping at MSI 2022.
MSI 2022’s biggest story so far hasn’t been the results or the matches, but the ping. After Riot Games committed to playing the tournament on an artificially recreated 35 ping, players have spent much of the opening days complaining that it actually feels far higher.
The players' suspicions were confirmed today, when in an announcement by Alex François, global head of competitive operations, Riot Games stated there was a discrepancy between the reported ping in-game, and the actual experienced ping.
In effect, in their efforts to create a level playing field for Royal Never Give Up (RNG), who are playing the tournament remotely from China, Riot Games has inadvertently damaged the competitive integrity of their entire event. As per the announcement, RNG will now replay their first three days of matches. These matches will take place after the conclusion of this stage’s initially scheduled games on May 14th and May 14th.
An issue of competitive integrity
In his statement, François explained that “the matches involving RNG were held with an unintended disparity in latency between competing teams. As a result, we have determined it is in the best interest of competitive integrity to replay all three of these matches.”
In effect, RNG, who are reportedly playing on a natural 35 ping due to their remote status, were playing on a lower latency than their opponents. Because of this disparity, RNG and the rest of their Group B opponents will have to replay their matches. This effectively wipes all results for and against RNG off the bracket.
We’ve spoken to players for the past three days, and in almost every case, the artificially induced latency was a topic of discussion. In some cases, players brought up the ping issue themselves, while in all they were willing to vocalize their thoughts. And the overriding feeling is that the ping has affected the tournament in an adverse way.
Players have detailed individual issues, such as not being able to execute certain plays or in-game actions. But there’s also other problems, such as teams being unable to draft certain champions. There are certain champions, for instance, that are just not competitively viable on high ping. Especially those that require high-levels of mechanical skill, and rapid sequences of inputs.
"But I know that it has affected my teammates, and we have adjusted our picks in order to consider the ping that’s happening. Because the other roles play more mechanically-intense roles. So we actually have forgone champions because of the ping."
As a result, it will feel incredibly unsatisfying that only Group B gets to replay their matches. And only some of them at that. Framed as an issue of competitive integrity, it’s confusing to state that “this issue specifically affected teams playing from Busan” and then only replay three matches.
No good options
The alternative, however, is to effectively restart the entire tournament. In RNG’s defence, they’re not exactly playing under good conditions themselves. They reportedly have not received their noise cancelling headphones, and in some cases they’re playing without game sound at all.
With the ping issue now seemingly fixed, Group B’s matches today have followed their expected outcomes. And RNG have picked up another win, even if they’re had their past three wins wiped off the board. In some salt in the wounds for all, RNG’s recent Tweet stated “We will play our matches to the best of our ability even through any unexpected events or unfair treatment, because that’s what we at RNG are all about.” Many will take this statement of “unfair treatment” as more fuel for the fire of criticism levied against the team.
Overall, it’s impossible to tell how much this latency debacle has affected the tournament. In a misguided attempt to create competitive parity, it seems like Riot Games has added an asterix to the result of this entire tournament.


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Mueller Report: Assange Calls Hillary a ‘Bright, Well Connected Sociopath’
Coinbase to Expand Trading Services across America and Asia
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Could E-commerce Giant Rakuten Push Amazon to Accept Cryptocurrency Payments?
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Bitcoin price struggled to break the $5,190-5,200 resistance area and declined against the US Dollar. The price revisited the $4,940 support area and recently rebounded above $5,000. There is a crucial bearish trend line forming with resistance at $5,110 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair could struggle...

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Saffron, the expensive yellow spice derived from the plant Crocus sativus, was the subject of a recent meta-analysis in the journal Human Psychopharmacology. The meta-analysis included six studies of a total of 230 adult outpatients with major depressive disorder. In two of these studies, 30mg/day of saffron extract was as effective as 20mg/day of the antidepressant fluoxetine and 100mg/day imipramine for the treatment of mild to moderate depression had been in other studies.
Saffron is suggested to have anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antiplatelet effects, and current clinical trials are exploring whether it could prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease.
The current study was an effort to systematically analyze clinical trials on saffron to establish treatment parameters such as dosage in addition to safety information.
In the past there has been some concern that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants taken during pregnancy could increase an infant’s risk of cardiac problems. There was particular concern that the SSRI paroxetine could lead to right ventricular outflow tract obstruction, and sertraline could lead to ventricular septal defects. A 2014 study by KF Huybrechts et al. in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed data from 949,504 women in a Medicaid system from three months before pregnancy until one month after delivery during the years 2000-2007.
Infants born to mothers who had taken antidepressants during their first trimester were compared to infants whose mothers had not taken antidepressants. In total, 6.8% or 64,389 women had used antidepressants in their first trimester.
While the rate of cardiac defects in newborns was greater among those mothers who had taken antidepressants (90.1 infants per 10,000 infants who had been exposed to antidepressants versus 72.3 infants per 10,000 infants who had not been exposed to antidepressants), this relationship diminished as confounding variables were removed. The relative risk of any cardiac defect after taking SSRIs was 1.25, but this decreased to 1.12 when restricted to only those mothers who were diagnosed with depression, and to 1.06 when the researchers controlled for things like depression severity. (All relative risk numbers were calculated with a 95% confidence interval.)
The researchers concluded that there is no substantial risk of increased cardiac defects in children born to mothers who took antidepressants during their first trimester.
Deep brain stimulation is a treatment in which electrodes are implanted in the brain to treat movement or affective disorders. At the 2014 meeting of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Thomas Schlaepfer reviewed the current status of studies of deep brain stimulation for depression. The bad news is that two double-blind randomized controlled studies are no longer recruiting patients because interim analysis failed to show a benefit to the deep brain stimulation over a sham stimulation. The studies targeted two of the most promising parts of the brain for deep brain stimulation—the subgenual anterior cingulate (important for motivation) and the anterior limb of the internal capsule (which contains nerve fibers going to and from the cerebral cortex), so their failure is a disappointment. However, Helen Mayberg, one of the lead researchers studying the subgenual anterior cingulate, will continue to study this target for deep brain stimulation.
The better news is that Schlaepfer repositioned the electrodes to target a site in the medial forebrain bundle nearer to the ventral tegmental area. After this shift he observed rapid onset of antidepressant response (within two days) in seven of the first eight patients studied, and these responses persisted over many months of follow up. This response was achieved at 2.8 microamps, a lower stimulation current than was used in other studies of deep brain stimulation.
Editor’s Note: Since patients started to feel better when they were still on the operating table, this may offer an opportunity to more rapidly assess effectiveness, do a double-blind study, and see if the findings can be replicated as another mode of achieving rapid-acting and long-lasting antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant patients. Intravenous ketamine has rapid-onset antidepressant effects, but its effects are short-lived.
Researcher Tony Pitts presented a study at the 2014 meeting of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) that described the neurobiology of an animal model of depression in rodents. In animal models, researchers provoke depression-like symptoms in animals with the hopes of finding neurobiological clues to human depression. Pitts’ studies explored the effects of acute stressors as well as more chronic long-term stressors such as learned helplessness.
In the rodents, acute stressors caused increased cell firing in the hippocampus, which caused increases in burst firing and an increase in the number of cells firing in the ventral tegmental area, which then led to increased activity in the nucleus accumbens (the brain’s reward center). However, after the stressor was over, there was an opponent process that resulted in a much more prolonged period of inhibition in the nucleus accumbens, with associated decreases in psychomotor activity and reward seeking. The rodents lost their preference for sucrose and engaged in less intracranial self-stimulation, pressing a bar to stimulate the brain pleasurably. These and other effects suggest an analogy to anhedonia (loss of pleasure in activities that were previously enjoyed), which is a key component of human depression.
In related studies, after experiencing periods of inescapable shocks, rodents developed learned helplessness, failing to avoid the area where shocks were delivered even when an exit was readily available. Rodents who had learned helplessness showed inhibited firing of cells in the ventral tegmental area, less activity in the nucleus accumbens, and apparent anhedonia. This inhibition was mediated via messages from the infralimbic prefrontal cortex (the equivalent to the subgenual cingulate cortex in humans, important for motivation) to the amygdala and then the GABAergic ventral pallidum, which decreased the number of dopaminergic cells firing in the ventral tegmental area. Blocking the amygdala input to this inhibitory pathway reversed the low dopamine firing and the anhedonia-like behaviors.
The anesthetic ketamine (which has rapid-acting antidepressant effects in humans) produces an immediate reversal of the learned helpless behavior in the rodents and increases the number of dopamine cells firing in the ventral tegmental area. Ketamine administered directly into the nucleus accumbens induces long-term potentiation (enhanced synaptic responsivity) and reverses helpless behavior and the long-term depression of neural firing that is associated with it.
Thus, when an acute stressor is over and the opponent process emerges, or following long-term chronic stressors such as learned helplessness, the excitatory path to the ventral tegmental area is absent, while the inhibitory path to the ventral tegmental area (via the infralimbic prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and ventral pallidum) predominates. Ketamine is able to re-activate the activating pathway and increase activity in the ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens, changes that are associated with the reversal of learned helplessness and anhedonia.
Editor’s Note: In the previous BNN, we reported researcher Scott Russo’s findings that input from the intralaminar nucleus of the thalamus was critical to the depression-like behaviors seen in a different animal model of depression, social defeat stress, where repeated exposure to defeat by a larger, more aggressive animal produces behaviors that resemble human depression. Here in Pitts’ research, learned helplessness is induced by inescapable shocks. Both models share the finding that firing decreases in the reward area of the brain (the nucleus accumbens). However, the key part of the brain driving the low levels of activity in the nucleus accumbens and the associated depression-like behavior appear to be different in these two different models. The intralaminar nucleus of the thalamus plays a key role in the social defeat stress model, while the infralimbic cortex and the amygdala play key roles in the learned helplessness model. These data together suggest that part of the reason depression differs from person to person may be because the illness can be driven by different brain areas as a result of different kinds of stressors.
To study depression in humans, researchers look to rodents to learn more about behavior. Rodents who are repeatedly defeated by more aggressive animals often begin to exhibit behavior that resembles depression. At the 2014 meeting of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP), researcher Andre Der-Avakian reported that in a recent study, repeated experiences of social defeat led to depressive behavior in a subgroup of animals (which he calls susceptible), but not in others (which he calls resilient). Among many biological differences, the resilient animals showed increases in neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.
Chronic treatment of the susceptible animals with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant fluoxetine or the tricyclic antidepressant desipramine, which both increase neurogenesis, also reversed the depressive behavior in about half of the animals. A single injection of the anesthetic ketamine (which has rapid-acting antidepressant effects in humans) reversed social avoidance behavior in about 25% of the animals. One depression-like symptom was anhedonia (loss of pleasure from previously enjoyed activities), which researchers measured by observing to what extent the animals engaged in intracranial self-stimulation, pressing a bar to stimulate the brain pleasurably. The effectiveness of the drugs in inducing resilient behavior was related to the degree of anhedonia seen in the animals. The drugs worked less well in the more anhedonic animals (those who gave up the intracranial stimulation more easily, indicating that they experienced less reward from it.)
A limited number of atypical antipsychotics are approved by the Federal Drug Administration for the treatment of depression in patients with bipolar disorder. This is important to note, because the widely used traditional antidepressants that are highly effective in unipolar depression are not effective in bipolar depression. Here we review the status of the only three approved drug treatments for bipolar depression (olanzapine, quetiapine, and lurasidone) and highlight data on a promising new atypical antipsychotic, cariprazine.
At the 2014 meeting of the International College of Psychopharmacology, researcher Joseph Calabrese reviewed the efficacy of the latest atypical antipsychotic to receive FDA approval for bipolar depression, lurasidone. In monotherapy, both low (20–60mg/day) and high doses (80–120mg/day) showed higher response rates (53% and 51%, respectively) than placebo (30%). When added to either lithium or valproate, lurasidone response (57%) again exceeded that of placebo (42%). Calabrese also indicated that all of the other secondary outcome measures were also statistically significant, including score on the Clinical Global Impressions scale for bipolar disorder, time to response, percentage of remitters, time to remit, score on the Hamilton Anxiety scale, and a patient rated depression scale (QIDS).
Lurasidone is also approved for schizophrenia at higher doses (up to 160mg/day). At least twice as much of the drug is absorbed when food is in the stomach, so it is recommended that patients take it one to two hours after dinner or after a snack of 350 calories or more. The drug has an excellent side effects profile, as it is weight- and metabolically- neutral (i.e. it does not increase blood glucose, cholesterol, or triglycerides).
The atypical antipsychotic quetiapine has been FDA-approved for bipolar depression for a number of years. It consistently performs better than placebo in bipolar depression, and unlike lurasidone, quetiapine is also FDA-approved for mania, as well as for long-term prevention of both manic and depressive episodes as an adjunct to either lithium or valproate. Quetiapine is also superior to placebo for prevention of both manic and depressive episodes as a monotherapy, but is not FDA-approved for this indication. A good target dose for bipolar depression is 300mg/day of the extended release preparation taken several hours prior to bed time. Higher doses of 400 to 800mg/night are used for mania and schizophrenia. Quetiapine is also FDA-approved as an adjunct to antidepressants in unipolar depression. The drug has sedative side effects, perhaps because of its potent antihistamine effects. It can also increase weight, glucose, and cholesterol slightly more than placebo.
Olanzapine and Fluoxetine
Olanzapine (Zyprexa) and a combined preparation of olanzapine and fluoxetine (Symbyax) are also approved for bipolar depression, but many guidelines suggest that these be considered secondary treatments because they are associated with weight gain and adverse metabolic effects.
Cariprazine Effective in Bipolar Depression and Mania
At the 2014 meeting of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology, researcher Suresh Durgam presented a poster on the first study of the atypical antipsychotic cariprazine in bipolar depression. There have also been three positive placebo-controlled studies of the drug in mania. It is a dopamine D2 and D3 partial agonist, with greater potency at the D3 receptor than the atypical antipsychotic aripiprazole (Abilify). In the large placebo-controlled eight-week study, doses of 1.5mg/day were superior to placebo, but higher (3mg) and lower doses (0.75mg) were not.
Another poster presented by the same research group also reported that augmentation of antidepressants with cariprazine in unipolar depression had results that were significantly better than placebo.
Editor’s Note: While all atypical antipsychotics that have been tested for mania have antimanic efficacy (lurasidone has not been studied in mania), their antidepressant profiles differ considerably. Only the three atypical antipsychotics noted above (olanzapine/fluoxetine, quetiapine, and lurasidone) are FDA-approved for bipolar depression, and in light of recent findings, cariprazine is likely to follow soon.
The atypical antipsychotics NOT approved for bipolar depression include: aripiprazole (Abilify), risperidone (Risperidol), and ziprasidone (Geodon), with the first atypical antipsychotic clozapine and the most recent ones not yet formally tested as far as this editor is aware, including asenapine (Saphris), iloperidone (Fanapt), and paliperidone (Invega).
Only the atypical antipsychotics aripiprazole and quetiapine are FDA-approved as adjunctive treatments to antidepressants in unipolar depression, and cariprazine may soon be added to this list.
Raphael Mechoulam, who first synthesized THC, the main ingredient in marijuana, gave the history of marijuana and its receptors in the central nervous system in a plenary talk at the 2014 meeting of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology. In Syria hundreds of years ago the drug was named ganzigunnu, meaning “the drug that takes away the mind.” It has also been called azalla, meaning “hand of the ghost.” Among the 100 compounds in marijuana, the best-known ingredient is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9 THC), which produces most of the actions of the drug. There is another active ingredient, cannabidiol (CBD), which has calming and anti-anxiety effects, but is present in very low levels.
The brain has cannabinoid receptors that respond to ingredients in marijuana in addition to other chemicals produced in the brain. They modulate calcium ions and decrease the release of many neurotransmitters.
THC acts at CB-1 receptors, producing the high. The CB-1 receptor is synthesized on demand, post-synaptically, and is transferred to the pre-synaptic terminal where it decreases calcium and transmitter release. Consistent with marijuana’s appetite-stimulating properties (“the munchies”), if the CB-1 receptor is blocked in animals, they lose their appetite and die of hunger.
There are also low levels of CB-2 receptors in the brain, whose activation does not cause a high, and whose levels may increase dramatically in pathological situations. Activation of the CB-2 receptor is anti-inflammatory and, in the same way that the immune system acts against foreign proteins, CB-2 acts as a protector against non-proteins.
CBD does not bind to any cannabinoid receptors, but its actions are blocked by cannabinoid antagonists.
There are two chemicals in the brain (endogenous ligands) that act at cannabinoid receptors—anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG). They are soluble only in lipids (not in water), and have never been given to people. In animals, 2-AG has neuroprotective effects, decreases the size of a stroke by 60%, and increases recovery from stroke.
Marijuana and CBD in particular have also had beneficial effects in people. Marijuana decreases the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy in children, has anti-inflammatory effects in rheumatoid arthritis (decreasing inflammatory marker TNF alpha), and has anti-diabetes and anti-convulsant effects.
In 2012, researcher F. Markus Leweke and colleagues showed that CBD was about as effective as the atypical antipsychotic amisulpiride in alleviating the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia. CBD’s other effects include reducing anxiety and improving psoriasis by increasing DNA methylation (Pucci et al. 2013).
It seems possible that some of these myriad effects of marijuana and endogenous ligands at CB receptors could be exploited for clinical therapeutics, as Mechoulam endorses, but when and how that will take place remains an unanswered question.
Editor’s Note: Despite all these potential positives of CBD, it should be noted that its levels are very low in marijuana, and that heavy smoking of marijuana has substantial adverse effects. These include low motivation, a doubling of the risk of psychosis, a hastening of the onset of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and cognitive impairment, as well as some changes in brain structure seen via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It may be becoming legal in many states, but is a bad idea for those at high risk for mood, anxiety, or bipolar disorders or for schizophrenia.
In the clinic of researcher Eduard Vieta in Barcelona, a study was recently completed showing that antidepressant use in patients with bipolar disorder (where antidepressants are not effective) had dropped from around 50-60% in 2007 (in Baldessarini’s study) to about 30% in 2013 and 2014, and conversely lithium, anticonvulsants, and atypical antipsychotics, which have much more evidence of efficacy, were all used much more often, or about 60% of the time.
Editor’s Note: Hopefully these data from Spain will soon be matched by similar data in the US showing that evidenced-based treatments for bipolar depression are in fact being used instead of antidepressants, which can have adverse effects, such as switching into mania or cycle acceleration.
At the 2014 meeting of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology, researcher Rieva et al. reported that 60% of bipolar patients with comorbid alcohol abuse have attempted suicide, and 48% of bipolar patients with cocaine abuse have attempted suicide. Thus, both of these comorbidities deserve specific attention and treatment. Unfortunately there are currently no Federal Drug Administration–approved drugs for bipolar patients with these comorbidities. The most promising treatments, based on data in patients with primary addictions, are the nutritional supplement N-acetylcysteine and topiramate, which have both performed better than placebo in studies of alcohol and cocaine abuse disorders.
In a symposium at the 2014 meeting of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology, four researchers shared insights on children who are at higher risk for bipolar disorder because they have a parent with the disorder.
Researcher John Nurnberger has been studying 350 children of parents with bipolar disorder in the US and 141 control children of parents with no major psychiatric disorder, following the participants into adolescence. He found a major affective disorder in 23.4% of the children with parents who have bipolar disorder and 4.4% of the controls. Of the at-risk children, 8.5% had a bipolar diagnosis versus 0% of the controls.
Nurnberger found that disruptive behavior disorders preceded the onset of mood disorders, as did anxiety disorders. These diagnoses predicted the later onset of bipolar disorder in the at-risk children, but not in the controls. A mood disorder in early adolescence predicted a substance abuse disorder later in adolescence among those at risk.
In genome-wide association studies, the genes CACNA1C and ODZ4 are consistently associated with risk of bipolar disorder, but with a very small effect size. Therefore, Nurnberger used 33 different gene variants to generate a total risk score and found that this measure was modestly effective in identifying relative risk of developing bipolar disorder. He hopes that using this improved risk calculation along with family history and clinical variables will allow better prediction of the risk of bipolar onset in the near future.
Researcher Ann Duffy reported on her Canadian studies of children who have a parent with bipolar disorder and thus are at high risk for developing the disorder. In contrast to the studies of Nurnberger et al. and many others in American patients, she found almost no childhood onset of bipolar disorder before late adolescence or early adulthood. She found that anxiety disorders emerge first, followed by depression, and then only much later bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder occurred with comorbid substance abuse disorders in only about 10-20% of cases in 1975, but substance abuse increased to 50% of bipolar cases in 2005. The incidence of comorbid substance disorder and the year at observation correlated strongly, indicating a trend toward increased substance abuse over the 30-year period.
Duffy found that having parents who were ill as opposed to recovered was associated with a more rapid onset of mood disorder in the offspring, usually in early adulthood. Duffy emphasized the need to intervene earlier in children of parents with bipolar disorder, but this is rarely done in clinical practice. Read more

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Canadian here, anytime I cross the border I like to shop thr Barnes & Noble. In my recent visit, I noticed that several new releases have stickers with “exclusive” content only avilable to Barnes & Noble. How recent is this trend an how exclusive is this content, do you think? Anyone have any idea how such things are negotiated? I was just really intrigued by it.
Interesting. My guess is that B&N has a curation team, and they solicit only from the Big Five publishers.
Like other big distributors, they do exclusive deals where they can. Just as Amazon does, e.g. with their Kindle Select / KU program. One of B&N’s early fights with Amazon was when Amazon started to do exclusive deals with publishers, locking B&N out.
B&N doesn’t do exclusives just with the Big 5 - they also do them with movie studios (e.g. the Star Wars franchise), and small publishers, and maybe a few marquee authors directly.
Often what they do is create a special edition consisting of a non-exclusive book or movie, plus some exclusive extra content. They focus a lot on YA titles. For example, they had an exclusive edition of Allegiant with some extra content that the author agreed to license exclusively to them. Cassandra Clare and John Green are other YA authors who have done exclusives with B&N. It works well for YA, because YA buyers still prefer bookstores and physical books to ebooks.
But their ‘exclusive content’ footprint is tiny compared to Amazon’s. Amazon has been especially successful at persuading independent authors and small publishers to become dependent on them. Their goal is for most indies to simply be unaware of other distribution possibilities, e.g. foreign, where Amazon isn’t as dominant as in the US. Indie writers find the rest of the market fragmented and difficult to engage with, so they are usually okay with giving up what might be 30-40% of revenue for some smaller perk of being in KU.
Indie authors earn far more from KU than all wide channels combined. KU by itself is as big as the non-Amazon ebook market, and KU authors get a massive visibility / rank boost that impacts their sales on the rest of Amazon, which is by far the most important market. Wide is a perfectly acceptable strategy, but joining KU is the smart decision for many, many indie authors.
Won’t argue the averages or totals. For the totals, everyone knows about Amazon’s near-monopsony. But I suspect that the averages are skewed by the fact that many independent authors don’t try anything else, so they never know. Or they ‘go wide’ but go through an aggregator that takes a cut and limits control.
When you look at certain specific authors who wish to access specific market segments, the picture can be different.
For example (and to stay close to @AbbyBabble 's topic), if you’re self-publishing YA or younger, you could be limiting yourself on Amazon, because Amazon’s reach into bookstores is low. Barnes & Nobles has their own self-pub program (exclusive and non-exclusive), which can include their physical bookstores. Jenna Moreci is a you-tuber and self-pubbed author who did well getting her books into all the B&N shops.
Another example: if you are sensitive to sales certain regional markets, then you could see lower revenues by limiting yourself to Amazon, because it doesn’t have access to many markets.
Here’s a an ALLi article, for example, that compares Amazon vs. Apple reach and pricing into non-US markets. Apple’s service and commission is simply better than Amazon’s in every area except mid-priced US market ebooks. Of course, as you say, Amazon is the BIGGEST, so the fact that it’s commissions and flexibility are poor compared to Apple’s doesn’t matter to most authors who mainly care about the US market.
The big down-side of going wide without an aggregator is that you have to know about all those special markets like B&N self-pub, and when and how to use them, and that’s a lot of work.
Huh. I’ve never heard of a self-published author making it into Barnes and Nobles on a national level. I just googled this and is it ‘Nook Press’ you’re talking about? I’ve never heard of it. When I googled it it turns out that Nook Press is outsourced to Author Solutions, which is one of the most notorious bad actors in vanity publishing.
"Barnes and Noble operates a self-publishing program called Nook Press. The second generation platform launched in early 2013 and focuses on getting indie authors to submit their books for inclusion into the Nook bookstore. It is my belief that Nook Press is bad for authors and solely exists to financially gouge them at every opportunity.
Last year, the former General Manager of Nook Press and VP of Content Acquisitions Theresa Horner wanted to devise a way for the self-publishing platform to make some serious money. She opened up a dialog with Author Solutions and deal was struck in October. One month later she was fired from Barnes and Noble.
The Author Solutions deal finally allowed Barnes and Noble to make a lot of money from their cadre of self-published authors . . .
. . . Many aspiring authors are unaware that it is not Barnes and Noble that is conducting these services, but instead everything is outsourced to Author Solutions. Whenever an author is sent over to the 3rd party company, B&N earns a hefty commission."
Anyway, I’m sure that wide works for some people. But the vast majority of self published authors making a career out of this that I know are in KU, and I would recommend all new authors to try KU first for the visibility boost it gives on the world’s largest book seller. Most of the authors I know doing well wide have built up an audience over many years.
That’s not current.
Yeah, ASI is a sordid vanity press that belonged to Penguin Random House at the time. B&N initially outsourced ‘value-add’ services like cover design to them. They later fired the woman who made the deal with ASI, then quietly dumped ASI when litigation started being bad press. Not defending B&N - they knew ASI were slimy when they made a deal with them, and tried to hide the connection.
However, even then, the main e-bookstore and in-store business had nothing to do with ASI.
Now, B&N recommends disclosed partners like 99designs for cover design, and Reedsy for editing services.
Their self-pub business, called Barnes & Noble Press (not Nook Press - that’s gone), is just a typical ebookstore with a simple pricing model - 65% goes to the author. The part that’s done well for some indie authors is fulfillment in B&N stores (via PoD), and for big sellers, B&N will sometimes put the book on shelves in the physical stores. But I have no idea about it - only that a few indie authors have done okay by it.
The reality of B&N as a platform for indie authors is that it is tiny compared to Amazon, and at serious risk of going out of business any time.
Weird that they would whipsaw from ‘exploit indie authors as a cash grab’ to ‘legitimate self publishing option’, but I suppose B&N has been a case study of corporate mismanagement for a decade. It looks interesting. I suppose if I was wide I would be tempted to upload directly as opposed to through an aggregator.
Anyway, interesting. I wonder how B&N handles returns, as the entire bookstore model is built around the ability to return unsold books to publishers for credit. Do they ship back to the self publisher author?


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Billboards with the three sisters looking windswept against a cityscape have popped up in four major cities: London, Berlin, Sydney, and Los Angeles (on the road you’d take to get from L.A. to Coachella — very smart marketing!).
According to Pitchfork, the trio’s label, Polydor, tweeted today (April 13), “NEW HAIM COMING,” but later deleted the tweet. It was replaced with a “peeping eyes” emoji directed at a story about the stylish new billboards.
It’s been almost four years since Haim released their debut album, Days Are Gone. In a tour teaser shared last year, the sisters said they were so ready to drop new music, and they followed up by premiering two new songs during subsequent live shows.
As of now, these billboards are the surest indicator that Haim’s return is upon us. When asked by a fan what the billboards imply, the band cheekily replied with a smirking emoji. You know the one:
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Over the past several decades, an increasingly large body of scientific evidence has established the link between housing conditions and inhabitants’ health. Deteriorating structures, building materials that off-gas, moisture and mold, poor maintenance and sanitation can all impact the environment of a home and the health of its inhabitants.
Hazards in the home environment cause or exacerbate a number of illnesses and injuries. For example, dust, chronic dampness, mold, secondhand smoke (SHS) and pests trigger asthma; radon and SHS cause lung cancer; lead-based paint is still a source of lead poisoning in children; carbon monoxide and chemicals in household products can lead to poisonings; and lack of safety railing and smoke alarms can result in preventable injuries.
The underlying causes of these home health hazards often overlap, as do the interventions that correct those causes. Here we provide you with some of the scientific evidence and disease burden statistics that have established the link between housing conditions and inhabitants’ health.
General Resources: Links between Housing and Health
Housing Interventions and Health Outcomes: A Review of the Evidence by the National Center for Healthy Housing and the US CDC, 2009.
Where We Live Matters for Our Health: The Links Between Housing and Health The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Commission to Build a Healthier America, 2008.
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We live in a world that is hyper-critical of women’s bodies. When I started realizing how much women are criticized and critiqued for their bodies, it seemed to open up a flood gate of awareness about just how widespread and deep this practice is.
I regularly work with women who come to therapy for eating concerns and I can’t help but wonder how much society is playing a role in the development of body image issues and eating disorders. Eating disorders are multifaceted and there are several factors that lead to someone developing an eating disorder. Body image is one of these factors, and as a community it’s important we address the issues of how we talk about and treat women’s bodies.
A couple of weeks ago I was driving in Northern Utah and I noticed a Billboard that said something to the effect of “Love your body” with a bullet point list of surgical procedures that you can have done, so that you can love your body. It made me laugh at how ironic the message was. And then it gave me chills to think that we as women might actually buy into the message that in order to love ourselves we first have to change ourselves.
My changing body
I am 8 months pregnant with with my first child, a little girl. At the beginning of my pregnancy I spent a lot of time reading several articles a day about how the baby is growing and how my body is changing. Around month 5, I started catching myself using words like “fat” and “overweight” to talk about my new body shape. I made jokes about my body that weren’t funny and made me feel worse about myself. I noticed that many of the articles about pregnancy that I was reading had a common thread of being hyper focused on the weight gain aspect of pregnancy. How much weight you should be gaining. How to slow down weight gain. What to eat so that you don’t gain extra weight. Often the recommended food lists seemed to consist mostly of nuts and berries, or at least it seemed that way!
I felt stuck punishing myself for the weight I was gaining, which made me feel bad about myself. I was robbing myself of the joys of this new and exciting adventure. When I could make sense of this cycle I was stuck in, I decided to stop reading the articles. Instead, I am working on trusting my body that it knows what it’s doing. I am re-writing the narrative of my changing body, to what I see as a more realistic and honest view. My body is strong and capable. It is creating life, and Its changing shape is beautiful and right.
Re-shape the conversation
I feel a personal drive to help re-shape the conversations that we have about our bodies. It’s important that the change starts with each one of us as we look in the mirror and evaluate our appearance. I worry that if the messages we have for our bodies are critical, the little ones we raise will hear those messages. And when their bodies grow to resemble our bodies they may feel stuck in a narrative of criticizing themselves.
So what do we do about it? How can we help our children love themselves more fully? We have to change the way we see ourselves. We have to push back against the message that our bodies are inherently bad. It’s important to realize that when people criticize women’s bodies, that criticism says something about them, not us. We need to push back, together as a community to say, my body is great as it is, my body doesn’t need approval from anyone, I will not apologize for the space I take up.

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The Space Shuttle Columbia carried the Chandra X-ray Observatory into space on July 23, 1999. To commemorate the telescope's quinceañera, NASA has released four beautiful new images of supernova remnants, processed from Chandra's readings, that showcase the observatory's capabilities.
Forty-five years ago, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first footprints on the Moon, and it was epic. Popular Science covered this enormous achievement with an article by Wernher von Braun– a German-born engineer, now known as "The Father of Rocket Science," who built the Saturn V launch vehicle that brought Apollo to the Moon. In our July 1969 issue, he described the plans for Armstrong and Aldrin's two-hour rendevous with the Moon.
Who will make our sandwiches in space? In the 1960s, the vision of the perfect female astronaut was as a space mom—a woman who would cook and clean and sew spacesuits, all while using her bounteous uterus to give birth to the little boys and girls who would populate the final frontier.
The ground in Elysium is made of volcanic flows. That's according to the newest geologic map of Mars, above, from the U.S. Geological Survey. Elysium Planitia is a named feature on Mars, but we're guessing the area is rather drier than the mythical Elysium that Homer described as a meadowed paradise.
Technically, the galaxies have probably existed for billions of years, but these seven had slipped under the radar until now. They’re dwarf galaxies, so-named because they contain only a few billion stars, compared to galaxies such as our own Milky Way, which may contain up to 400 billion stars. Dwarfs are the most abundant galaxies in the universe, but they’re hard to detect because their light is dim and diffuse.


Lockdown Live – a free online concert this Friday night
Ku-ring-gai Council is presenting a free concert by Pymble-based singing duo Jess and Matt and encouraging local residents to enjoy a takeaway from local restaurants while they tune in.
The Council initiative comes as Sydney’s lockdown enters its third week and stay-at-home orders have been tightened. The free concert will be streamed live on Facebook between 7pm and 8pm on Friday 23 July.
Star couple Jess & Matt, who call Ku-ring-gai home, have attracted an audience around the world thanks to their trademark acoustic harmonies.
After 10 years of performing on Sydney’s live music circuit, Jess & Matt first tasted fame by becoming runners up in The X Factor Australia in 2015.
Since then their singing careers have gone from strength to strength. This month the husband and wife duo’s first original album Wildflowers reached number 1 on the iTunes charts.
Jess and Matt were due to head to Nashville this year to perform but like all musicians, COVID has changed their plans. Instead they are offering a free performance this Friday night and bringing their music live from their home in Pymble where Matt has spent most of his life.
Mayor Jennifer Anderson said the Council was presenting the performance in a bid to boost the spirits of housebound residents and help promote local restaurants offering takeaways and home deliveries.
“We’d encourage you to watch the concert on the Council’s Facebook page and sample some delicious dinner by Ku-ring-gai eateries while you do so.”
“The concert is open to everyone who wishes to tune in between 7pm and 8pm this Friday night.”
To watch Jess and Matt live visit https://www.facebook.com/events/868194177437844
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Tremendous Opportunities in Industry 4.0 for the Smart and Skilled
MANUFACTURING IN THE UNITED STATES HAS A CHALLENGE WITH ITS IMAGE. WHEN THE MANUFACTURING Institute surveyed Americans about manufacturing, a career in manufacturing ranked fifth out of seven possible industries. The dilemma for manufacturing is the general population still sees industry jobs as blue-collar when they are increasingly white-collar jobs with sizeable salaries requiring highly technical and specialized skills.
But the persisting misperceptions about industry jobs are contributing to a recruitment challenge for career and technical colleges and manufacturers alike. Some institutions are working hard to change that by upgrading their equipment, working closely with employers to realign curriculum, and introducing more project-based learning methodologies to the classroom.
The general public remains largely in the dark about the significant changes happening in manufacturing. While production innovations like 3-D printing are gaining visibility, transformations driven by computer-numeric programming machines, smart factories, and other parts of advanced manufacturing remain less accessible. What’s more, individuals without connections or exposure to manufacturing technology from an early age do not see how these innovations are redefining careers and the skills needed to obtain them.
All this is creating a significant challenge for workforce development in manufacturing. Right now, skilled trades are among the hardest jobs to fill in the United States.
By comparison, advanced manufacturing in Germany is a sought-after career,. Credit is widely given to the German dual-education or apprenticeship model, which pairs learning in a classroom with hands-on training in a company. Employers and educators collaborate to ensure students are learning the technical knowledge they need, as well as have the opportunities to practically apply their skills. This is something that many American career and technical education programs are replicating, while also making their own improvements to the system.
Employer Collaboration Starts With Listening
Moving from operation skills to programming skills is becoming more important in all aspects of manufacturing. The Manufacturing Institute reports that technology/computer skills are an area where employers see the largest skills gap: 70 percent say employees are deficient in these skills, while 69 percent say employees are deficient in problem-solving.
Andres Carrano, an associate professor in Industrial Systems and Engineering at Auburn University, welcomes the shift in employers’ expectations because it emphasizes the importance of an aspect of the manufacturing curriculum he feels is essential: the lab.
Carrano sees lab work as the best way to replicate the hands-on learning students need once they start working in a real-life manufacturing setting. “You retain knowledge more effectively over time once you apply it because students have that physical engagement through a manufacturing activity’ says Carrano.
His labs emphasize not only technical knowledge, which he is quick to point out important but also the soft skills employers seek like problem-solving and critical thinking. One lab Carrano includes in his undergraduate courses is a team-based assembly simulation. In this lab student teams of four or five-run an assembly line using the same type of equipment, they will find in future employers’ shops. They run the system for 20 minutes and then see where the bottlenecks happen, what the cycle time was, and where the system can improve. In other words, they watch what happens in real-time, and then discuss how they can make it better.
Carrano also assigns individual labs, including one he calls a “gate” or “check-out” exercise. This is typically the last activity of the lab and is designed to challenge students to apply the technical knowledge they have learned that day to the equipment they are using in a new scenario. Students’ problem-solving skills are put to the test because they cannot leave the lab until they complete the assignment and clear the “gate.”
These exercises, according to Carrano, are dependent on industrial-grade, high-quality equipment. “A critical differentiator in these lab experiences is the right equipment,” says Carrano. Though he also recognizes that having the funds to purchase that equipment can be a challenge.
Finding and Funding Industry-leading Equipment
At Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, North Carolina, the Applied Technologies Division overcame that challenge by persistently pursuing grant monies.
“If you have great intentions and good instructors, but you don’t have the equipment resources or you’re limited by space, it puts you in a difficult situation to effectively teach,” says Ernie White, division chair of applied technologies.
White and his team have actively searched and applied for grants to help cover nearly $1.7 million in equipment for students. That effort has paid off, according to White.
“In my 12 years of educational experience, this is the first time I can say we have state-of-the-art equipment that a lot of industry is trying to secure,” he says.
The equipment creates a “wow” factor for new students and helps with recruiting. But more importantly for the college, it engages students who might not otherwise complete their degree. Many students at Wayne are employed full-time, have families to care for, and are trying to take a full course load. They also often require some remedial education when they first enroll.
To support these high-risk students, Wayne instituted a flexible curriculum that incorporates many innovative strategies, like flipped classroom s and a series of certificates that students can earn while they work toward their associate in applied science. These innovations applied to a manufacturing curriculum help keep students motivated to actively participate in class activities and return the next semester. Wayne notes, however, that nothing replaces the hands-on learning they receive on top-level equipment.
The lab on campus boasts industrial robots, two 80-inch TVs, cameras that can be accessed remotely to view and control the lab, as well as equipment from leading manufacturing and automation providers. Having the cooperation of industry partners who understand the Importance of hands-on learning helped the college secure the needed equipment.
“It is essential that students learn on equipment that industry is using today,” says Mike Nager
one of Wayne Community College’s technical equipment providers. “Manufacturing is changing, which is changing the nature of jobs students will have, and having access to hands-on learning will help them effectively learn the skills they need.”
In terms of changing the face of manufacturing overall, Dostie notes it is a challenge, but she says schools should look to recruit students not traditionally associated with manufacturing.
“We’ve been trying to recruit women because these are great-paying jobs. The jobs today go beyond brute strength. To develop a program to operate a piece of equipment, you just need to be smart,” says Dostie.
The health of the manufacturing workforce and attracting new students to training programs might mean evaluating students’ interests and passions differently.
“Back in the day, you chose to engineer because you were a born tinkerer, good with a screwdriver while taking apart your toys or lawnmower — and you liked it. Today’s manufacturing is more focused on digital skills, so students without the previously necessary manual skills can still be passionate about and successful in manufacturing,” says Carrano.

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Welcome to the web site for the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra Society.
The IWSO is a well-established non-professional Symphony Orchestra on the Isle of Wight. The Orchestra performs music from a varied repertoire, usually at the Medina Theatre in Newport. This web site provides programme information for past (and future) concerts.
It may be dull outside, but the evening of the 23rd of January is set to be a lively one at Medina Theatre as the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra puts on another concert full of wonderful music.
Beginning with Richard Rodney Bennett’s Farnham Festival Overture, and following with Mendelssohn’s Nocture from A Midsummer Night’s Dream the orchestra set the scene for visiting soloist Richard Harwood to perform Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor.
After the interval Dvorák’s 6th Symphony provides the entertainment for the remainder of the evening.
The first two items of the concert will be conducted by Gareth Balch while the Concerto and the Symphony will be conducted by Major Tony Smallwood rtd (Royal Marines).
Click to download a copy of the January 2016 poster
Due to high demand we actually ran out of printed programmes for last Saturday’s concert, so here’s a digital copy if you missed out!
Click to download a digital copy of the November 2015 Programme
The players of the IWSO are already back in rehearsals for the first concert of the new 2015-2016 season, which will be held at Medina Theatre on Saturday the 14th of November at the usual time of 7.15pm.
Tickets are on sale now, for an un-missable evening’s music consisting of Walton’s Portsmouth Point overture, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 (with returning favourite Alexander Sitkovetsky) and Mahler’s first Symphony, also known as “The Titan”.
For more details on the rest of the new season’s line-up, take a look at the full listing.
Tickets are already selling fast for the last concert in the IWSO’s current season, which is themed around the United States of America’s Independence Day. Please note, that due to circumstances beyond the Orchestra’s control, the concert is actually on Friday the 3rd of July, and at a later start time of 7.45pm.
Music will include Bernstein’s Candide Overture, two pieces by Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue and Variation on I Got Rhythm), as well as music by Copland, John Williams, Sousa and Ferde Grofe. The orchestra will be joined by returning soloist Viv McLean on piano.
If you’d like to help publicise the performance (of what will be a lively and entertaining evening’s music), please download and distribute either a flier or a poster from this site.
Click to download a PDF poster
The Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce that the next concert, on Saturday the 16th of May will be sponsored by Esplanade Garage.
There will be a German theme to the evening’s music, from Wagner’s Overture to Die Meistersinger through to Brahms’ second Symphony. Along the way there will be music from Schubert’s Rosamunde Ballet and Mahler’s Songs of the Wayfarer. The IWSO is delighted to welcome back mezzo-soprano Megan Quick to perform with the orchestra.
Tickets are still available from Medina Theatre box office on 01983 823884 (or online via their website). If you would like to help spread the word about what will be a great evening’s music, why not download and distribute a poster or two? Alternatively there is a flier available for download too.
Download and print out a poster for the May concert


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Brand: Agilent Technologies
Model: 1260 Infinity LC
LCMS is a technique used in organic analysis to separate components of a mixture and analyze each component via mass spectrometry. Our LC system is a coupled 6130 Quadrupole LC/MS system with an LC that has a 600 bar power range, a flow rate of up to 10 mL/min, 80 Hz detector speed up and can be set with different solvents depending on need. Our lab is set up with DMF and THF solvent systems.

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Op-Ed: Law enforcement fighting human trafficking, but needs more resources
August 17, 2022
It’s a horrific reality for Montanans to consider, but human trafficking takes place every day in our state. The odds are most of you have seen it but didn’t know.
Last month, a man involved in a sex trafficking ring in Billings was sentenced to nearly 27 years after exploiting vulnerable victims for nearly a decade – plying them with drugs and alcohol to create addictions and then forcing them into commercial sex. The operation also led to the tragic death of one of the victims. Four other men were sentenced for their role in this criminal enterprise.
In June, in a case led by our Department of Justice human trafficking agents, another perpetrator was found guilty of multiple drug and human trafficking crimes and will face at least 27 years in prison. He transported a 19-year-old girl to Colorado where he sold her for commercial sex and sexually assaulted her. He also kidnapped two girls – one from the Crow Reservation and one from Billings – for the purposes of sexually assaulting them.
Thankfully, these criminals are being held accountable for their reprehensible actions. However, they represent just two of the human trafficking cases that we’re aware of. The number of suspected cases tracked by the Montana Department of Justice went from seven in 2015 to 68 in 2021, an increase of 871%. More awareness among the public leads to more reported cases, but the numbers point to a deep-seated problem. It’s a problem we can’t afford to ignore – there are victims right now who need relief from their oppressors and deserve justice.
That’s why as attorney general I’ve made it a priority to eliminate human trafficking. Across the Montana Department of Justice, we are committed to finding these dangerous predators, holding them accountable, and fighting for the people who are targeted because of their vulnerabilities.
During my first year and a half in office we have already taken several steps toward our goal to eliminate this heinous crime in Montana. Our Prosecution Services Bureau is now providing training for county attorneys to help them recognize trafficking cases that come across their desk. At the Montana Law Enforcement Academy, we’ve enhanced training so that all local, state, and tribal law enforcement officers entering the field know how to spot human trafficking. All uniformed Montana Highway Patrol troopers are now trained on identifying and responding to human trafficking cases.
In response to the increase in cases, the 2019 Legislature passed a bill that created a two-person human trafficking enforcement team within the Department of Justice. That was a good start – and these agents have done fantastic work since then – but it’s not enough. In the next legislative session, I will be asking our lawmakers for additional agents dedicated to the fight against human trafficking.
To make Montana a truly hostile place for human traffickers, the Legislature will also need to look at our criminal code. Specifically, giving more teeth to the statutes to prosecute and crack down on the criminal trafficking enterprises that are profiting from the suffering of others.
In the meantime, I will continue my efforts to bring anti-human trafficking organizations and regional task forces to the table to work with government agencies and law enforcement to improve resource coordination, identify gaps in services, and explore additional policy proposals.
You don’t need to wait for the Legislature to play an important role in the fight against human trafficking. Learn the indicators and commit to reporting suspected cases to law enforcement. As Montanans, we typically don’t like sticking our nose into other people’s business, but your phone call could save a life. If you notice any indicators of human trafficking don’t hesitate to call 911 in an emergency or 833-406-STOP in a non-emergency situation. If possible, take pictures of the trafficker, victim, and vehicle license plate, but do not intervene and remain at a safe distance.
Human trafficking and sexual slavery will not go away if we turn a blind eye. We must continue to work together to eliminate these crimes in Montana.


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Total Time: 4 Hours
18 Muffin Sized Monkey Bread
Use a cheese grater to shred the cold butter into long strands. Place the butter in the freezer for 10 minutes before making the dough.
In a stand mixer equipped with a dough hook, place the flour, sugar, salt, Instaferm Gold, and shredded butter. Mix on low until all the butter is coated with flour, about 1 minute.
While mixing on low speed, add the milk and egg. Continue mixing on low speed until it forms a rough dough.
Remove the dough from the mixer and knead gently until a dough is formed. Do not over knead or the dough can become tough.
Wrap the dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, remove the dough and roll it into a ½ inch thick rectangle. Perform a book fold (a book fold means to fold the dough in thirds) on the dough and wrap it once again.
Repeat the cooling and book fold steps two more times.
Meanwhile in a medium sized heavy bottomed pot place the sugar and water for the caramel. Heat the mixture over medium high heat until it boils.
Once the mixture reaches 230°F use a pastry brush to brush fresh water just above the level of syrup in the pot. This prevents crystallization on the sides of the pot that could seize the entire pot.
Heat the syrup to a deep caramel color around 348°F.
Add the heavy cream and whisk vigorously. Once the cream has been added, add the butter and whisk until incorporated. Whisk in the salt and cinnamon at this point.
Cool caramel to room temperature.
Preheat an oven to 350°F.
Use a pastry brush and butter to grease a muffin pan.
Cut the dough into random pieces no larger than 2 inches long and place them in a bowl.
Add 3/4 of the caramel to the pieces of dough and use a spatula toss them together.
Place 3-4 pieces into each cup of the buttered muffin tin. If you feel a piece is too large simply rip it in half. We like this as it gives a rustic look and more crispy edges.
Proof the dough for 30 minutes to 1 hour or until doubled in size.
Drizzle a small amount of caramel on top of the monkey bread just before baking.
Bake the monkey bread for 18 minutes.
Drizzle the remaining caramel just before service of place some on the side for dipping.
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The BBC says The Great Reset is a conspiracy theory. Well, that’s a relief. Really good news, except for one thing. Everything the World Economic Forum is doing appears to have the same effect as most so-called conspiracy theories about The Great Reset said it would.
The WEFs are determined to use the opportunity presented by the pandemic to reset the world for a more sustainable future and eliminate all income inequality – except for theirs.
The BBC, another worthless media outlet with one-sided opinions on everything, can’t understand how people — conspiracy theorists — have hijacked The Great Reset.
Aside from the World Economic Forum’s attachment to Maoist China and Schwab’s closeness to China since 1978, we have some concerns but don’t want to sound like CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.
THIS IS WHY
Klaus Schwab, founder and chief of the World Economic Forum, explained the idea behind the Great Reset in an article on this link that accompanied the launch:
“The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future,” Schwab said.
The obvious problem with this is who appointed him and his wealthy forum members to reset the world?
The Resetters, based on the Schwab book, The Great Reset, came up with this diagram, which the BBC says it’s not specific. However, what is specific is the leftist and all-encompassing nature of the goals such as Inclusive Design, LGBTI inclusion, gender parity, circular economy, corporate governance, global governance, digital identity, the fourth industrial revolution, and so on.
Klaus Schwab wants to be the COVID passport provider of the world. It’s a bit lofty a goal since no one elected him.
Klaus Schwab certainly thinks he’s changing the world to suit his worldview.
“Let’s also be clear. The future is not just happening; the future is filled by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room. We have the means to impose the state of the world,” Schwab said.
The launch page mentions the stakeholder economy he is considering for all of us.
THE STAKEHOLDER ECONOMY “TO IMPOSE THE STATE OF THE WORLD”
Schwab said there are two conditions. “The first one is that we react all as stakeholders of larger communities, so we serve not our only self-interests, but we serve the community. That’s what we call stakeholder responsibility.” Second, we “collaborate.”
Schwab wants these elites “to engage into very action and impact-oriented issues to make progress related to specific issues on the global agenda.”
In other words, Schwab and his elitist allies have taken it upon themselves to “impose the state of the world,” but he adds his allegedly higher moral purpose to sell it. They will be honorable stakeholders serving the community. Additionally, they will be kind enough to “collaborate.” That is the second condition.
Mr. Schwab also boasted of infiltrating the world’s governments at the highest levels. they bragged about sending out 7,000 leaders to their governments at the last forum.
Mr. Schwab and his forum members see everyone microchipped in the next ten years.
Certainly, in the next ten years, everyone will be implanted with chips, he says. It will enable direct communication between our brain and the digital world.
Once chipped, we don’t need to do a thing to reach the digital world.
Schwab says, “Yes, you talk, and you say, ‘I want to talk and be connected with anyone now.’”
First, you will have personalized bots with AI, according to Schwab. The robot will not only be your “assistant for manual work,” but “it can be an intellectual partner for you.”
Schwab’s operatives like Larry Fink of BlackRock are busy altering our stock exchange out of capitalism into stakeholder capitalism which isn’t capitalism at all. Instead of profit guiding the market, leftist social goals like climate change extremism will.
The problem with ESG is the elites who have all the money get to control all investors. For example, if the elites with the money want Exxon to abandon oil and gas, they only have to keep lowering their ESG score.
EAT BUGS AND GET OUT OF YOUR CARS
They are trying to convince people to give up meat, eat bugs and stop driving around in cars.
They are pushing their leaders to destroy oil and gas, share cars, take over a third of the farms, and give up home ownership.
Joe Biden’s HUD is eviscerating single-family home ownership, and companies — mostly BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard — are buying single-family homes and renting them.
THE GREAT RESET ADVISOR
Yuval Noah Harari is the advisor to Schwab and the WEF members. He says ridiculous things, and they eat it up.
He calls soldiers and farmers the “useless people” and wonders what they’ll do with all these useless people once they advance the world with AI. They might redistribute the wealth, especially if they find some use for them.
BUILD BACK BETTER
'The WEF is an unaccountable body of global elites lobbying for a global agenda. That’s a basic fact. Which raises the question, all this talk of building back better, we have to ask, build back better for whom?'
Calvin Robinson discusses the World Economic Forum. pic.twitter.com/LwN5yqN578
— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 29, 2022
Thank God! No more need for the Davos Group to meet.
News Flash! The BBC is full of of shit!
Great, the BBC says there is no valid conspiracy theory. Such a relief.
News update: BBC London 13 September 2022
The Latest from our Time Machine Reporter:
I have successfully appeared in Rome today. By our calendar here it is 13 March 44 BC. After a day of careful research, I can confirm that the rumours of a planned assassination are merely a conspiracy theory. I interviewed senators Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. None other than JC’s good friend Brutus has explained that it was just fear mongering spread by unknown enemies.
He added “We must arrest and silence by any means possible all who spread such dangerous mis-information.”
OOPS! 2 days later Julius was assassinated by 23 senators lead by his two supposed friends. Among the justification for the murder, they cited the incident at the festival of the Lupercalia, 15 February 44 BC. Mark Antony, who had been elected co-consul with Caesar, climbed onto the Rostra and placed a diadem on Caesar’s head, saying “The People give this to you through me.” While a few members of the crowd applauded, most responded with silence. Caesar removed the diadem from his head; Antony again placed it on him, only to get the same response from the crowd. Finally, Caesar put it aside to use as a sacrifice to Jupiter Optimus Maximus. “Jupiter alone of the Romans is king”, Caesar said, which received an enthusiastic response from the crowd.
Later Brutus admitted, “We had to kill him because the whole thing was a set-up. Antony and JC were just testing to see if there was enough support for him to become king. We knew he had to be planning an insurrection. It’s what we would have be doing in similar circumstances.”
This time traveI stuff is great! I have successfully appeared in Jerusalem today. By our calendar it is 6 April 30 AD. After speaking to valuable sources including Judas Iscariot, the close friend of Jesus Christ (JC) and the treasurer of his movement, as well as the most trustworthy of sources, Annas, the father-in-law of the High Preist Caiaphas, I can confirm that the rumoured plan of an assassination attempt JC is dangerous misinformation. Misinformation like this is dangerous and could even lead to riots and other treason.
I am going now to check out the other information provided by the reliable Annas to the effect that Jesus has a council of war planned on this Thursday night, and that dangerous weapons will be carried by the co-conspirators. More tomorrow.