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February 13, 2019
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. ...” So begins Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.”
Ever since ancient times, people have been fascinated by the power of crossroads. They have been the subject of poetry, song, myth and folklore.
Examples range from Robert Johnson’s classic blues song of the same name back to the days of ancient Greece, where they were sacred to Hermes, god of boundaries, borders and exchanges, and to Hecate, a witchy goddess associated both with magic and the home.
The image shows up in both the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament) and the gospels. In Jeremiah 6:16, the prophet says, “Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.”
In Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus says “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Metaphorically, I think most of us have come upon crossroads where a choice must be made that can have lifelong consequences.
I think West Virginia is at a major crossroads now, one that will have a lasting impact on its future. It has to do with the face we present to the world: will it be one of narrow-mindedness, fear, hatred and bigotry or one of openness, hospitality, solidarity and basic fairness?
Let’s just say that if the West Virginia Legislature is any indication, the jury is still out. We’ve had one delegate embarrass the state by comparing people who identify as LGBTQ to terrorists ... and worse.
The leadership of the majority Republican Party has condemned these remarks, yet they refuse to move legislation ending discrimination — and some have even attempted to pass legislation that would undo local anti-discrimination ordinances.
Still other lawmakers have sought bills that would keep out refugees and immigrants in a state largely composed of the descendants of refugees and immigrants that is also rapidly aging and losing population.
That kind of thing sends a message loud and clear both to young West Virginians who feel they have no place here and to other bright and energetic people who will think two or three times before moving here.
It discourages the kind of employers and investments that would provide good jobs while promoting a good quality of life.
That degree of closed-mindedness says that education isn’t valued here and that we are proud of what — and who — we don’t know.
That kind of thing sends a message that we should continue to be nothing but a sacrifice zone for extractive industries, whether they are those that take away our natural resources or those that strip-mine our public schools.
It doesn’t have to be that way. To paraphrase the last lines of Frost’s poem, we could take the road less traveled by, and that could make all the difference.
(This appeared as an op-ed in today's Charleston Gazette-Mail.)
February 12, 2019
SB 451, aka SB 666, passed the Senate 18-16 Feb. 4, with all Democrats and two Republicans voting against. It contained an infinity of charter schools, thousands of "education savings accounts" (ESAs) to siphon money away from public schools, anti-union "paycheck protection" measures, penalties for work stoppages and such. And a 5% raise for state workers. It was clearly an effort to punish teachers and school service workers for winning last year.
In the House education committee, amendments were made that took out some of the worst features, including paycheck, penalties, and ESAs. It limited charter schools to two.
Yesterday there were two public hearings at which teachers and parents vastly outnumbered the out of state and astroturf bill supporters. I love it that one of the speakers against the bill compared charter schools to bedbugs. Bring two of them home and see how it goes...
THEN, the house finance committee apparently thought it was the REAL education committee and began putting more bad stuff back in the bill. THEN that failed and the earler, somewhat less bad, bill was sent to the floor, where it is now.
My friend and twitter critter Sean O'Leary of the WV Center on Budget and Policy dropped these gems during the process:
"Marathon public hearings, all night committee meetings, all for a bill that nobody but lobbyists want. Meanwhile, PEIA stuck with a band-aid of a one-year fix, with no permanent solution in sight."
"Lobbyists for charter schools and ESA's get called up to present to House Finance committee, while teachers and parents opposed get shuffled though a public hearing 70 seconds at a time."
It's still not clear what teachers and school service workers are going to do. I guess it depends on what goes down on the House floor...but we could be looking at an epic rematch. A rally in support of public education is planned for tomorrow at 6:30 on the riverside steps of the capitol.
And just to be clear, many teachers and school service workers are willing to give up a pay raise in order to kill a bill that threatens public education in this state.

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As you are aware, our Saplings children range from 3 to 5 years of age. In order to ensure that all of our learners are being supported, stimulated and challenged, we split the children into small, personalised groups for Adult Led learning activities. These are short, active sessions spread across the day. Our mixed age setting provides our children with the time they need to explore the environment at their own pace. We believe that mixed-age learning has a wonderful impact on all of our learners and provides multiple benefits which our children carry with them for life. There are four benefits in particular:
1. Children Learn Leadership Skills
Mixed-age learning is very beneficial for social learning. It gives our older children the opportunity to support our younger children. Our older saplings naturally feel a responsibility to take care of the younger saplings. As role models, they demonstrate things to our younger children directly or by example. After a while, the older saplings see that the younger children are receptive to their example and it gives them a sense of pride and obligation. This, in turn, reinforces the leadership skills they have been demonstrating. The younger children learn by example. They are absorbing information about social cues and behaviour, and very soon they will put them into practice themselves. Positive reinforcement and empathy is a huge benefit in this type of learning environment.
2. Motivation For Younger Children
A mixed age learning environment serves as a strong motivation for positive behaviour. The younger ones are driven to please the older children, whom they see as role models. Given the right circumstances, a younger child is inspired to be like one of the older children they admire. The key for us as educators is to pay close attention to who is making the most impact on the other children. We then encourage the most influential older child or children to demonstrate the types of positive qualities that we want others to emulate. When this is on track, it’s really motivating for all the children involved.
3. More Opportunities for Development
A class of children of the same age is at a similar stage of emotional, physical, social and cognitive development. When there are older and younger children together in a class, children are able to figure out how to problem-solve by watching other children interact and by receiving help from other children directly. Every child has the opportunity to shine depending on his or her strengths. Everyone looks to the child who is more physically coordinated when they want to figure out an obstacle course, or to the most mature child when an argument arises. Mixed-age grouping is a microcosm of the real world. Children in a mixed age setting start to develop skills that carry over into their future learning. This year, I have witnessed incredible progression in language development; surrounded by older saplings, some of our youngest learners have progressed from speaking only a few words of English to forming extensive sentences, asking and answering questions, expressing their emotions and sharing opinions. This has been wonderful to see!
4. A Sense of Security
Children in our mixed-age environment have a strong sense of security. They have peers at a similar stage: some that motivate them to higher levels and some that remind them of where they used to be. Common insecurities that children may develop about what they do and do not know are lessened in this type of learning environment because there is always so much variation amongst the children. There is always someone that a child can relate to in any given situation. Children can develop a healthy sense of security that then, in turn, gives them the confidence to grow. This links with our ‘Growth Mindset’ values, which are at the core of The Olive Tree beliefs. The potential for emotional, physical and cognitive growth is enormous and children truly flourish in such an environment.

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Emirates National Oil Company (Enoc) is set to showcase its global competencies in the supply of jet fuel at an upcoming event, with an objective to support the on-going development of the aviation sector in the UAE and the larger Middle East.
The Dubai Airshow 2015 will run from November 8 to 12 at the Dubai World Central.
According to recent statistics, traffic at the Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum International Airport has been forecast to reach a total of 125 million passengers and more than five million tonnes of air freight in the 2020’s, presenting ample growth opportunities for fuel suppliers.
In addition, aviation business in the UAE has sustained a compounded annual growth rate of about 11 per cent over the last 15 years.
The fuel sales volume have grown from about 460 million US gallons (USG) in 2001 to about 2.2 billion USG this year, reflecting a 480 per cent growth over this period.
Enoc has had a strong presence at the airshow since its inception in the Middle East. At this year’s airshow, the company will showcase its jet fuel offering and transportation capabilities to airports in Dubai to meet the growing industry fuel needs and overall customer demand.
In addition, Enoc will be unveiling a project which is a key element for Dubai’s rapidly growing aviation sector. This project will prove to be a catalyst for the massive growth expected at both international airports in Dubai.
Saif Al Falasi, group chief executive officer, Enoc, said: “The Dubai Airshow is a strategic industry platform that provides us with an opportunity to highlight our continuously growing capabilities in the jet fuel business. Over the years, we have continued to enforce our position in the market as both an industry champion and a global partner by collaborating with other key players and providing the best possible services to facilitate the continued growth of the market.
"We look forward to enhancing public knowledge of our company’s operations, ENOC’s diverse product offering and our contribution to the growth of the aviation sector in the UAE and the Middle East region.”
Enoc Aviation, a division of Enoc Marketing is a leading marketer and supplier of jet fuel in UAE since 1995. After establishing a track-record of significant growth and success in the UAE, ENOC Aviation has steadily increased its international supply network to 97 Airports across 11 countries.
It is an associate member of Joint Inspection Group (JIG) and offers a range of Commercial and Technical services. ENOC Aviation currently is the largest supplier at Dubai Airports and is committed to provide world-class energy solutions that support the government’s growth and expansion plans. - TradeArabia News Service

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Two of the UK’s top clinicians have been awarded fellowships by the Health Foundation, working with the Academy of Medical Sciences.
27 February 2014
The Health Foundation has appointed Anita Charlesworth to the new post of Chief Economist. Anita will lead the Foundation’s work in economics and will be responsible for recruiting a new team at the Foundation.
06 February 2014
Today marks one year since Sir Robert Francis QC launched the report of his Inquiry into the causes of poor patient care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Hospital Trust. We give our reflections on the year since its launch.
27 January 2014
The Health Foundation has appointed Sir David Dalton, the Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, as its new Governor.
05 December 2013
We respond to the Autumn Statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
21 November 2013
Despite the financial squeeze across the NHS and in local authority funded social services, the quality of care across England appears to be bearing up as evidenced by the report by the CQC and analysis by QualityWatch.
19 November 2013
The Health Foundation responds to 'Hard Truths – the journey to putting patients first', the Government's response to the Francis Inquiry.
06 August 2013
After the release of the Berwick report, we respond to the findings of the report and its recommendations.
03 July 2013
The Health Foundation today announced the appointment of Dr Jennifer Dixon as its new Chief Executive to succeed Stephen Thornton.
24 June 2013
The findings of a five-year programme that mobilised communities to improve the quality of care for mothers and newborns, aiming to save at least 1,000 newborn lives in rural Malawi, has been launched.


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The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a male who died following a motor vehicle incident near 150 Mile House on Dec. 7, 2012.
He was Carl Rosk, aged 86, of Williams Lake.
Mr. Rosk was the driver of a northbound vehicle that was in a head-on collision with a southbound pickup truck on Highway 97 on the morning of Dec. 7. Mr. Rosk was transported by ambulance to hospital in Williams Lake, but succumbed to injuries sustained in the crash.
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Just popping in for a quick minute today to share a cool little Etsy shop with you. Sarah K. Benning hand-stitches some really great cards and prints. I love the mountain print. And, who wouldn’t want to be told “you’re neat” in such a clever way? She has an inventive Imaginary Landscape series that is well worth checking out.
Not to mention the fact: aren’t we always looking for a new take on greeting cards? Cheers!

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“This year's revision of the diagnostic criteria for autism is among the most contentious of any," writes author and Duke University pediatrician and medical historian Jeffrey Baker. “[Yet] it reflects one of the central themes in the history of autism: a debate over where to set its boundaries. “
Dr. Kanner didn’t so much define autism as portray it, Dr. Baker notes. The 1943 paper described 11 children who shared high intelligence, a profound preference for being alone and an “obsessive insistence on the preservation of sameness.”
Through the 1960s, psychiatrists continued to view autism as a form of “childhood schizophrenia.” Also popular through the 1960s was the now-debunked idea that autism resulted from emotionally distant mothering (the “refrigerator mom” theory of autism).
The 1970s brought understanding that autism stemmed from biological differences in brain development. Objective criteria for diagnosing autism followed in the 1980s. So did a clear separation from childhood schizophrenia.
“Until the present, subsequent DSM editions have generally moved in the direction of greater diagnostic flexibility and expansion,” Dr. Baker writes. In 1994, for example, the DSM-IV added Asperger syndrome to the autism spectrum.
While the expanding definition provided greater access to services, it created difficulties in determining what kinds of therapy (and how much) are needed, Dr. Baker notes. “The DSM-5 criteria will not solve these problems,” he writes. “But they do represent a move toward a more rigorous definition of autism.”
“Rather than argue over the true definition of autism,” he concludes, “it may be more helpful to ask what definition is appropriate for the task at hand.”
History of Autism at a Glance:
1943 Leo Kanner publishes “Autistic Disturbance of Affective Contact”
describing 11 socially isolated children who share an obsessive desire
1950s-1960s Autism widely regarded as a form of “childhood
schizophrenia.” Psychoanalysts blame emotionally cold mothering.
1970s Autism understood as a biological disorder of brain development.
1980 DSM-III distinguishes autism from childhood schizophrenia.
1987 DSM-IIIR lays out a checklist of criteria for diagnosing autism.
1994-2000 DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR expand definition of autism
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of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is defined by two categories:
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Autism Speaks is dedicated to ensuring that all who need autism services continue to receive them. For more on autism and the DSM-5, see our complete coverage here. As the DSM-5 takes effect, we want to hear about your experiences. Please participate in our survey here.

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Welcome to our “Psychedelic Lunch” series, “The 27 Club Edition” where we find out how deep the rabbit hole really goes and explore psychedelic tunes from the 60’s and 70’s. Weekdays At Noon EST. Enjoy the trip!
There was only ever one Janis Joplin. No one else could come close. Janis was unique – she was the Queen of Psychedelic Soul.
On 4th October 1970, singer Janis Joplin was found dead at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood after an accidental heroin overdose. She was only 27 years old.
“Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. She was one of the more popular acts at the Monterey Pop Festival and later became one of the major attractions to the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour. Joplin was well known for her performing abilities, and her fans referred to her stage presence as “electric”. At the height of her career, she was known as “The Queen of Psychedelic Soul,” and became known as Pearl among her friends. She was also a painter, dancer and music arranger. ”
Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on January 19, 1943, to Dorothy Joplin, a registrar at a business college, and her husband Seth Joplin, an engineer at Texaco. Janice was different. As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by African-American blues artists Bessie Smith and Leadbelly, and it was while listening to these that Joplin discovered she had an inborn talent to sing the blues.
Joplin graduated from high school in 1960 and attended the University of Texas at Austin, though she did not complete her studies. The campus newspaper The Daily Texan ran a profile of her in the issue dated July 27, 1962, headlined “She Dares To Be Different.” The article began, “She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levi’s to class because they’re more comfortable, and carries her Autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break into song it will be handy. Her name is Janis Joplin.
Around 1963, Janice left Texas for San Francisco and made some early recordings of blues standards with future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. It was also during this period that Joplin’s drug intake increased, topped with heavy drinking sessions.
In 1966, Joplin’s bluesy vocal style attracted the attention of the psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, a band that had gained some renown among the west coast hippie community. Janice became their singer, and the group soon signed a deal and saw their debut album released by Columbia Records in August 1967.
Their breakthrough came with the release of their second album. Cheap Thrills topped the US charts for eight weeks and a star was well and truly born. This was Joplin’s destiny; it’s been said during the recording of the album Joplin was always the first person to enter the studio and the last person to leave. The album captured their raw sound and even included the sounds of a cocktail glass breaking and the broken shards being swept away during the song “Turtle Blues”.
Janice was fast becoming a star. Time magazine called her “probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement,” and Vogue stated Joplin was “the most staggering leading woman in rock… she slinks like tar, scowls like war… clutching the knees of a final stanza, begging it not to leave… Janis Joplin can sing the chic off any listener.”
The Lord never did buy Janis a Mercedes-Benz, but in 1968 with the first real money, she made she treated herself to an eye-catching 1965 Porsche Cabriolet Super C – which was pained in bright rivers of yellow, orange, pink, and turquoise with a bloodied American flag on the trunk.
With this success came the usual workload of a heavy touring schedule, TV appearances, and more recording sessions. By early 1969 the singer was allegedly shooting at least $200 worth of heroin per day.
One of her last live performances was at the Concert for Peace at New York’s Shea Stadium with Steppenwolf, Paul Simon, Poco, and Johnny Winter. The concert date coincided with the 25th anniversary of dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Janis made her last recordings on October 1, 1970, when she laid down ‘Mercedes Benz’ and a birthday greeting for John Lennon, whose birthday was October 9 (Lennon later told of how her taped greeting arrived at his home after her death). On Saturday, October 3, Joplin attended Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles to listen to instrumental tracks prior to recording her vocals, which were scheduled for the next day. She never returned.
When Joplin failed to show up at Sunset Sound Recorders for the next recording session by Sunday afternoon, producer Paul A. Rothchild became concerned. Full Tilt Boogie’s road manager, John Cooke, drove to the Landmark. He saw Joplin’s Porsche in the parking lot. Upon entering her room, he found her dead on the floor beside her bed. The official cause of death was an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol.
On 26 October 1970, a wake was held at Lion’s Share in San Anselmo, California to celebrate the singer’s life. Almost as though she’d had a premonition about her own death, Janis had left $2,500 in her will to throw a wake party in the event of her demise. The party was attended by her sister Laura and Joplin’s close friends. Brownies laced with hashish were unknowingly passed around amongst the guests. Joplin was cremated in the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Mortuary in Los Angeles; her ashes were scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean and along Stinson Beach.
“Flower in the Sun” is a previously unreleased psychedelic rock song by Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin written by founding member, guitarist Sam Andrew.
It appeared in the band’s live sets in 1968, and was recorded during studio sessions that year for their critically acclaimed album, Cheap Thrills. However, although the studio outtake was eventually released as bonus material on more recent pressings, the song was not actually included on the original album. Thus, its first commercial release was a live version (recorded June 23, 1968, The Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, CA) that appears on the posthumous In Concert album from 1972.
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Half the time, there’s a cake-fest going on in our kitchen so Gaby needed relocating temporarily. Banksy’s inspiration was timely 😀.
Some classic recipes just go on and on. And this is a favourite of adults and kids at our full-house dinners.
If I have our apprentices up for after work, they’ll often say, “Don’t bother asking, just do the chicken and beans!” A lamb cutlets version was my favourite dish as a kid amongst all the Greek dishes that were crammed onto a small drop-leaf dining table. But Fasolakia works without any meat as a vegan dish too.
Growing up, my mother only cooked Greek food and my Dad the English – the best Sunday roasts, apple and rhubarb pie, bread pudding – hearty and proud working class fare. But he never attempted ‘foreign’ food, that was Mum’s domain. On the rare occasions they veered out of lane it was a culinary car-crash. I'm not sure if they each felt they were trespassing... some cultural appropriation, but their hearts clearly weren't in it and even as young kids we could taste that. In her later years we’d set aside evenings together to cook all her key Greek recipes, and I wrote them down to continue her heritage into the next generation.
This one-pot recipe is difficult to get wrong, though practice does refine and improve the timing, textures and flavours.
Ingredients: Serves 4
12 lamb chops or 8 pieces of chicken4 celery stalks finely sliced/chopped5 large potatoes halved or quarteredFrench beans or runner beans3 tbsp olive oil (extra optional)1 large onion finely chopped1 cup of parsley finely chopped1 tbsp tomato puree4 cloves garlic1/2 tsp dried oreganoPepper Salt
Heat the oil and lightly brown the meat each side before adding a little water, then simmer with the lid on for 20 minutes.
Add the onion, celery, parsley, garlic, oregano and tomato purée.
Simmer for 20 minutes before adding potatoes. Simmer for 30 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper, then add the beans and simmer for 30 minutes more.
Serve with tasty bread to mop up the delicious sauce at the end.
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Shortcuts is a tragicomedy, love story, and political memoir. It is both a humorous depiction of contemporary life and a witty, theoretical debate about the concepts of fate and freewill.
ISBN: 9781412054690 ISBN-10: 1412054699 Audience:
Number Of Pages: 344 Published: 7th April 2006 Publisher: Trafford Publishing Country of Publication: CA Dimensions (cm): 20.3 x 12.7
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I’m not a big Donald Trump fan.
No. Really . Not. A. Fan.
But I’m reminded of Churchill’s statement about Stalin; he didn’t care for him, but if Satan were Hitler’s enemy, Churchill would at least do lunch with him.
And so the Saint Paul City Council might be responsible for me doing lunch with The Donald, after they put their own special carve-out in the First Amendment:
The St. Paul City Council will vote Wednesday on a resolution that condemns presidential candidate Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and declares Trump unwelcome within the city limits….[Councilman Dai Thao] acknowledged on Thursday he had not yet touched base with fellow council members on the resolution. “We think it will pass,” he said. “St. Paul has always been welcoming to immigrants.”
But not, apparently, dissent in any form.
Dear Mr. Trump: While I won’t be voting for you at caucuses, I beg of you; please, please, please come to Saint Paul (aka “Chicago on the Mississippi”). Call these morons on their bluff.
It’d be the show of the century.
It’s another big win for urban liberal privilege.


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Yamaha SRT's Morbidelli clinches Teruel MotoGPUpdated: 26 October, 2020 11:40 IST
I knew I had to make an aggressive race, when I saw clean air in front of me I decided to give everything I could for every lap. The 23 laps went away like this, he smiled, clicking his finger.
Franco Morbidelli streaked home to win the Teruel MotoGP on Sunday as Joan Mir took third to extend his lead in the world championship with only three races to go. Morbidelli started from second on the grid behind pole sitter Takaaki Nakagami whose dream weekend turned into a nightmare when he parted company with his LCR-Honda. With the Japanese rider cruelly out of the picture Morbidelli was left with clear air in front of him, and the Yamaha-SRT rider made the most of his good fortune.
Unchallenged, he crossed the line well over a second up on Alex Rins, last week's winner at the Motorland Aragon circuit, with Mir taking third from 12th on the grid. Mir, who unusually has never won a MotoGP race, is now in pole to assume the crown left vacant by Marc Marquez, the six-time champion sidelined by the fractured arm he suffered in his first race fall. Suzuki rider Mir extended his lead over Fabio Quartararo (who finished eighth) from six to 14 points in the riders standings.
Maverick Vinales is placed third on 118 points, six clear of Morbidelli who reflecting on his second win of the season said: "Amazing! "I knew I had to make an aggressive race, when I saw clean air in front of me I decided to give everything I could for every lap. "The 23 laps went away like this," he smiled, clicking his finger."
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As per the recent reports by Gizmochina, the device has also bagged TENAA certification in China. The listing revealed that the smartphone may feature an LTPO screen with variable refresh rate. However, the company has already confirmed that the upcoming OnePlus device will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset.
OnePlus 11: Expected features and specifications
The OnePlus 11 is said to sport a 6.7-inch AMOLED, LTPO display that might offer a Quad HD+ resolution (3216×1440 pixels) with a 1-120Hz variable refresh rate. The smartphone will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. It is likely to pack 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of UFS 4.0 internal storage.
The OnePlus 11 is rumoured to come equipped with a triple rear camera setup that may comprise of a 48MP primary camera with OIS support, a 48MP secondary sensor, and a 32MP telephoto lens with 2x zoom. For the front, the smartphone could house a 16MP selfie camera.
The OnePlus 11 is likely to run the OxygenOS 13 operating system for the global variant and ColorOS 13 for the China variant, both of which are based on Android 13. The upcoming device is speculated to be backed by a 5000mAh battery unit that may support 100W SuperVOOC fast charging.


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We are happy to present you Cata’s first part “Cachai” by Enrique Mayor. Along with this part, we interviewed Cata and want to encourage you to give it a read. We discuss very important topics as she opens up about her struggles with mental health. If you struggle know there is no shame in it and make sure to talk to your friends and loved ones.
Filmed & edited by Enrique Mayor
Additional filming by Blai Costa
Photography by Roger Ferrero
Interview by Johannes Schön
We watched your part a while ago at the 20 Years of Nike SB Exhibition in Barcelona. Happy we get to release it now. How long did you work on it?
Yes, that was so much fun for me! I think in between me being sick and being out of Barcelona I guess more or less a year.
Last year before CPH Open they found a tumor in my stomach and I had to go through surgery and chemotherapy. Which also contributed to my depression and anxiety issues.
Oh god. So sorry you need to go through that!
What is the situation like now?
It is all good. I’m very private about all of those things right now I’m just using medication and going to monthly reviews with my doctor.
In a story post the other day you opened up about mental health. Thought it was really brave of you to share your own experience. If you don’t mind me asking – what are your struggles and how do you deal with them?
Thanks for asking. It’s great to actually talk about it. I deal with depression and anxiety. It has been very hard but I’ve been going to therapy and using other alternative methods as well as taking medication because in my case I reached a point where I was dangerous to myself and I need help with my brain’s serotonin production.
Also opening up, being vulnerable and talking about it with my friends, family and boyfriend have been crucial for me to be able to fight back. Sometimes I just felt like if I would talk about it or say something to the ones who love me I would become a burden for them or they would just think I was crazy or overreacting but the more secretive I was about it the more lonely and trapped I felt.
“I’m pretty sure that the tumor was just a reflection of what was happening inside my mind and heart.”
Definitely reach out and talk to your friends or even seek professional help. Everyone here reading who is in a similar situation as well!
Yes. It’s so important to ask for help and to talk to others. My boyfriend always told me two things that helped me to get through it a lot. The first one was “everyone is guessing” which is something we don’t think about. Usually, we tend to think everyone else has everything figured out but ourselves. The other one was “we are all alone together” meaning we all think we are alone in the different kinds of struggles in our lives when the truth is we are all going through similar things. We just tend to think we are the only ones because there’s so much shame around it. Nobody should be scared of opening up, we are all trying to do the best we can with what we have!
Yes most certainly everyone is just trying to figure out life and has their own set of struggles. Did you have mental health issues before they found the tumor or did that trigger it?
Yes, I would say way before. If I have to be completely honest I’m pretty sure that the tumor was just a reflection of what was happening inside my mind and heart. It was kind of crazy and made me realize how bad my inner voice was and how I was always making myself feel out of place, just trying to please everyone around and trying as much as I could to be considered by others good, or just acceptable when in reality it was me that never felt like I was enough or even just good.
“In skating, we usually don’t speak about this subject that much and even when it gets put out there, as sad as this sounds, it’s often when is too late for one of us. That’s why it was important for me to talk about it.”
What was your process of getting more open to talking about it?
Well, it was a hard process, to be honest. At first, because I tend to be really happy around people and I’m a very positive person. So when this whole thing started I felt like I just had to hide it because it just wasn’t who I thought I was. I was so ashamed and I felt so weak and lonely, I just couldn’t deal with the fact of facing my own situation.
To me, it was very important to start my recovery process by talking about it with my brother and his girlfriend. They live in Chile but even with the distance they were able to help me get into therapy and to talk about it with my boyfriend and some of my close friends here. That made a huge difference in how lonely and ashamed I felt because of the situation. It made me realize that in skating we usually don’t speak about this subject that much and even when it gets put out there, as sad as this sounds, it’s often when is too late for one of us. That’s why it was important for me to talk about it because it’s been hard and it’s still living with me every day. I haven’t gotten through it yet. I’m trying my best but I’m not going to hide anymore. Hiding my own struggle is what has been making it so hard to deal with. It also doesn’t open any doors of conversation for those who are going through it.
So what I’m trying to say here is, there’s nothing to be ashamed of, don’t give up, talk about it. Try to get as much help as you need. Let’s try to build a less lonely and more caring world for all of us starting for our community in skateboarding.
I can only agree. This is very brave of you, so thank you for being so open about it. Everyone is different but so far into your journey, what treatments/practices/techniques have helped you?
Thank you so much. Honestly, I still feel like I’m figuring this out but therapy indeed helped a lot. Also, meditation and truthfully a lot of fake it till you make it. I try to be nicer to myself. Skating is always a great superhero.
I’m pretty much in the middle of the struggle still. Hopefully, for my next part, I got a better answer for this.
What is your relationship with social media?
I try to not be on it for too long. So right now it doesn’t feel that healthy for me to spend too much time on there. On the other hand, I love to post skate clips of my sessions with my friends having fun and showing my progression on a daily basis. I’m very grateful to be honest that there are so many people that like my work and I wouldn’t be here without them. It is great to have so much support.
This is your first real part, right? What made you want to film a part?
Haha yes, this was my first real one, I used to make my own videos in Chile with my best friend on my phone. They were called “una wea mea chety” which means “something a bit shitty” in English, haha.
But I always dreamed of making one. It’s the hardest thing you can try to put together in skating. It is such a long process, it requires a lot of creativity and even if I didn’t make it to the end the way I wanted to, it was super fun to film and work with Kike (Editors Note: Enrique Mayor) and all my friends on it.
I’m so grateful that Nike gave me the opportunity to do this.
“We went back 14 times. (…) I’m never going back there ever again”
Which clip took the longest to get and which one worked out quickest?
Actually, we filmed that line where I do the Ollie over 8 stairs and then the Nosemany Revert on the first go. The hardest one I would say is that one boardslide pop out in the thin ledge, and we went back 14 times. Kike and I were so over it, haha. So I’m never going back there ever again.
Wow, 14 times! Unreal!
You are originally from Chile – any plan on moving back at some point?
I’m from Valparaiso. I came here when I turned 18. I was supposed to come here for 3 months and then go back to Chile to study at college. But I got to see a whole different world of skating, living in a big city and making my own adventures and that made me realize I couldn’t go back. I love skating too much to live a life that wasn’t going to have skating as the center of it. So I decided to stay and give it a shot.
I guess getting better first. I’m starting to film a new part now, trying to travel the most I can, keep challenging myself to be a better skateboarder and keep on growing up as a human.
Cata, thank you so much for your trust and for helping open this dialog that we really need in skateboarding and life in general. I am sure it will help a lot of people. We wish you all the best in this world!
Thank you guys for all the questions and for posting this part.
It means the world. Much love for you all


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Realistic exposure study supports the use of zinc oxide nanoparticle sunscreens
Zinc oxide (ZnO) has long been recognized as an effective sunscreen agent. However, there have been calls for sunscreens containing ZnO nanoparticles to be banned because of potential toxicity and the need for caution in the absence of safety data in humans.
An important new study provides the first direct evidence that intact ZnO nanoparticles neither penetrate the human skin barrier nor cause cellular toxicity after repeated application to human volunteers under in-use conditions.
This confirms that the known benefits of using ZnO nanoparticles in sunscreens clearly outweigh the perceived risks, reports the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
The safety of nanoparticles used in sunscreens has been a highly controversial international issue in recent years, as previous animal exposure studies found much higher skin absorption of zinc from application of ZnO sunscreens to the skin than in human studies.
Some public advocacy groups have voiced concern that penetration of the upper layer of the skin by sunscreens containing ZnO nanoparticles could gain access to the living cells in the viable epidermis with toxic consequences, including DNA damage.
A potential danger, therefore, is that this concern may also result in an undesirable downturn in sunscreen use. A 2017 National Sun Protection Survey by the Cancer Council Australia found only 55 percent of Australians believed it was safe to use sunscreen every day, down from 61 per cent in 2014.
Investigators in Australia studied the safety of repeated application of agglomerated ZnO nanoparticles applied to five human volunteers (aged 20 to 30 years) over five days. This mimics normal product use by consumers. They applied ZnO nanoparticles suspended in a commercial sunscreen base to the skin of volunteers hourly for six hours and daily for five days.
Using multiphoton tomography with fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, they showed that the nanoparticles remained within the superficial layers of the stratum corneum and in the skin furrows. The fate of ZnO nanoparticles was also characterized in excised human skin in vitro. They did not penetrate the viable epidermis and no cellular toxicity was seen, even after repeated hourly or daily applications typically used for sunscreens.
“The terrible consequences of skin cancer and photoaging are much greater than any toxicity risk posed by approved sunscreens,” stated lead investigator Michael S. Roberts, PhD, of the Therapeutics Research Centre, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, and School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Sansom Institute, Adelaide, QLD, Australia.
“This study has shown that sunscreens containing nano ZnO can be repeatedly applied to the skin with minimal risk of any toxicity. We hope that these findings will help improve consumer confidence in these products, and in turn lead to better sun protection and reduction in ultraviolet-induced skin aging and cancer cases,” he concluded.
“This study reinforces the important public health message that the known benefits of using ZnO nano sunscreens clearly outweigh the perceived risks of using nano sunscreens that are not supported by the scientific evidence,” commented Paul F.A. Wright, PhD, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia, in an accompanying editorial.
“Of great significance is the investigators' finding that the slight increase in zinc ion concentrations in viable epidermis was not associated with cellular toxicity under conditions of realistic ZnO nano sunscreen use.
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Welcome to the Mission! Are you a new DLI? No? Are you a Contractor or a PSC? Oh, you're a Fellow!
That's right, there is an acronym soup for the many people that make up the personnel of USAID. It's not as simple as being just a hire of the Agency, rather, people come to the Missions and are classified through a wide variety of hiring mechanisms. The heart of the difference between all the classifications is funding source and compensation system but also includes to some degree the type of work.
The existence of so many different hiring mechanisms is a result of the budget process (Operational Funding and Program Funding), historical changes in government, and the nature of how development work has changed. It's quite a complicated system and I still wonder, at times, if there might be a more effective and easier to understand way of hiring.
Let's try to break-down the many classifications of employees that makeup USAID.
--These are the Civil Servants of the US Government. They are based out of Washington, DC working at the headquarters of USAID. They follow the General Schedule (GS) salary scale and support the government's development programming from the US, but many will often travel to other countries (the field) in their work. Civil Service employees represent about half of the US direct-hire employees of the Agency.
--These employees represent the majority of the US direct-hire employees of USAID working overseas. Known as career Foreign Service Officers (FSOs), they have a variety of technical backstops, and represent the Agency and the US Government abroad. Unlike Civil Service employees, they are compensated on a different Foreign Service pay-scale and follow rules from the Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM). USAID has historically hired FSOs under various initiatives, and as a result, additional nicknames came about for newly hired FSOs based off of the initiative in which they were hired. These initiatives include "International Development Intern (IDI)", "New Entry Professional (NEP)", and "Development Leadership Initiative (DLI). The most recent initiative was DLI and hopefully, the Agency will be able to hire for attrition and per future staffing needs in the future. Uneven hiring for FSOs historically is a result of budget shortfalls, hiring freezes, and reductions in force (RIFs) in the Agency's history.
Foreign Service Limited (FSL)
--These are direct-hire employees of USAID who makeup a small portion of USAID's Foreign Service. They use the same pay-scale as typical FSOs but are generally limited to 5 years employment, but in some cases, they can be converted to career FSOs. Recently, the Agency hired many employees as FSLs to help support the staffing needs of "Critical Priority Countries (CPCs)" like Afghanistan and Iraq.
--Fellows will join USAID for a couple years at a time as determined by the structure of the Fellows program. The US Government has a variety of different programs and I'm really not knowledgeable on the details of them all. However, the most common Fellow's I've seen at USAID are "Presidential Management Fellows (PMFs)" and "American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)" Fellows. Fellows have opportunities to work in Washington, DC as well as work abroad in the Mission.
Participating Agency Service Agreement (PASA)
--This is an arrangement where another US Government details employees to work at USAID. While the employee is working at USAID, they are still technically an employee of their home Agency. The majority of PASAs at USAID tend to come from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), in my experience, and work alongside Civil Service employees in Washington, DC.
Personal Service Contract (PSC)
--USAID has a unique authority to hire employees on a contract basis but, who are for all practical purposes, essentially a US direct-hire. They are compensated in accordance to their contract which is generally based off the Civil Service pay-scale. They are employed to work at both Washington, DC and abroad but largely are hired abroad in the Missions. Historically, PSCs filled staffing shortages of FSOs and now more increasingly used to provide unique technical support that isn't found within the ranks of FSOs or Civil Service. PSCs can be US citizens (USPSCs) or third country nationals/citizens of a country other than the US or the country in which they are working (TCNPSCs).
Foreign Service National (FSN)
--FSNs makeup the significant majority of USAID employees overseas. These are the local employees of the countries in which USAID works. They are the backbone of the Missions providing Technical Support, Program Management, and Administration for all of USAID's activities. The typical Mission will have Rule of Law Specialists, Infectious Disease Specialists, Water and Sanitation Specialists, etc. providing vital technical and programmatic support. FSNs have the local knowledge, language skills, and expertise to bring effective development solutions to their home countries and are an essential component to sustainable development programs. FSNs are hired technically as a form of PSC and are compensated based off of local pay-scales and benefit plans.
--While not under the direct employment of the US Government, they are indirectly employed by USAID and consist of the largest number of people working overseas supporting USAID's activities. Since the 1990's, the US Government increasingly relied on the private sector to perform many previously held functions of government employees. At USAID, almost all of the implementation of activities is now outsourced to contractors and non-government organizations while strategy and project design is general held within USAID. Depending on how one would like to support USAID, working with as a Contractor might actually be a better option as the work would be closer to the field and the daily implementation of development work.
That's all the types of employees that comes to mind but would be curious to know if there are even more!


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Tuesday, 31 October, 2000
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- EU grain prices were generally flat last week on thin trade. Only malting barley markets continued seeing consistent price rises across the EU, with malting barley prices generally some 40% above intervention prices. EU barley also saw some interest from Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.
- The weak Euro is aiding European grain prices, making them competitive on the world market, while allowing the Commission to avoid issuing positive export refunds.
- EU malting barley markets are seeing purchaser demand switch from French optional-origin contracts to Danish and UK sources instead. The change is due to concern over the quality of the crop from Northern France, which is lifting French prices.
- Spain is concerned with the quality of this seasons French wheat, with traders sceptical about its suitability for bread-making. This means alternative sources are being looked at, with Germany a likely benefactor if French wheat is not used.
- Germany is reporting quiet demand from mills and compounders, while demand from other processors is generally steady. Demand for malting barley is rising, which is pushing prices up slightly, while exporters in northern Germany were reported to be actively looking for wheat.
- It should be noted that this Wednesday (01 November) marks the opening of the 2000/01 intervention season, with Germany expected to mainly offer barley.

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El Mirage Mayor Lana Mook listens to El Mirage and Youngtown residents voice their concerns about a proposed mine near both towns during an El Mirage City Council meeting Thursday. The council decided to review the matter further and will meet Wednesday to discuss the issue.
Youngtown resident Tiffany Seay voices her concerns about a proposed mine near El Mirage and Youngtown during a council meeting Thursday.
Agua Fria Ranch HOA Vice President Barbara Lehn voices her concerns about a proposed mine near El Mirage and Youngtown to the El Mirage City Council during a council meeting.
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EDPNC invites North Carolina companies in the energy industry to exhibit at European Utility Week co-located with POWERGEN this November in Paris.
EPDNC’s International Trade Division has booth space available to NC companies, located in the US Pavilion. There is no charge to join the booth and STEP Travel Reimbursement Program funds are available to offset your airfare and lodging cost, to qualifying companies. Space is limited and will fill up very fast.
In addition, our EDPNC European office will be able to work with you in setting up B-2-B match making opportunities.
We hope to have you be a part of this amazing opportunity to connect with key decision makers and increase your exports to one of the largest growing markets for the energy industry in the world.

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Alexandre Lacazette is back in full training again and nearing a first-team return - but why does the boss often take him off in the second half of games?
Arsene Wenger sat down with us to discuss the use of stats to determine players' physical conditions - and revealed how he manages the France international.
"We know the players’ physical qualities and who we expect to drop in the second half or not," the boss told the Arsenal Magazine. "Nobody’s tired enough at half time to be substituted for that, but in the second half you’ll see that sometimes this player will drop in the last 20 minutes.
"We have a fatigue factor coming in at different levels for everybody and we know the players who drop more in the second half than others. Some remain completely consistent and some even push upwards in the second half.
"There are players who drop up to 15 per cent in the second half, so you have to consider that in your substitutions. Even if you do make substitutions, you always try to keep one free because you know this guy could need to be substituted as well so you need to keep a place for him.
"I must say that [Lacazette] plays in a position where you sub more than say a defender," Wenger added. "You substitute a striker more than you would a defender, because they always have to provoke, to defend, to attack, you have to create holes in the defences. The strikers are more subbed than others.
"Secondly, he was in an adaptation period where I felt that, without any objective measurement, that sometimes he struggled a bit more in the second part of the game, especially in the last 20 minutes, to create the movement he can.
"I put that down to an adaptation period. It was not so much physically - that didn’t drop so much - it just looked like he was a bit less sharp."
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Recent interesting findings in SrTiO3 have triggered many attempts to search for new physics in this material and related perovskite oxides. Current thinking is that the nature of its oxygen vacancy is closely related to the physical properties of SrTiO3.
Although many experimental and theoretical efforts have been made, the role of this oxygen vacancy is not yet well understood. However, in research just published in Advanced Materials, new insights into the atomistic and electronic structure of the oxygen vacancy in SrTiO3 have been obtained through first-principles calculations.
The researchers, based at Kyoto University in Japan, found that the oxygen vacancy induces a local antiferrodistortive-like oxygen-octahedron rotation, even in the cubic phase. This feature leads to in-gap localized electronic states, giving a convincing explanation for the thermal ionization and optical transition that are observed experimentally. The oxygen-octahedron rotation around the oxygen vacancy thus plays a key role in the physical properties of SrTiO3.

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Canadian singer-songwriter Michael Rault is back on May 18th with his new album, It’s A New Day, via Wick Records (a Daptone Records subsidiary). You may remember his solid Living Daylight which was out on Burger records in 2015.
Today’s Friday Fire Track, “I’ll Be There,” is from that new record and screams classic power pop. I don’t know about you but any track that fits in with my Big Star, 10cc and Mikal Cronin playlist is an automatic keeper. Enjoy your Friday!
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Russia-linked hackers allegedly tried to access Hillary Clinton’s private email server at least five times during her time as Secretary of State.
According to Associated Press, emails released on Wednesday reveal that hackers attempted to trick Ms Clinton by encouraging her to open and print a virus attachment.
The attachment was disguised as a speeding ticket from New York. If opened, this would have reportedly allowed hackers to infiltrate the computer.
The emails were received by the former secretary of state on the morning of August 3, 2011. It is not known whether Ms Clinton opened the download.
Security experts who examined the software said if the attachment had been opened, the computers would have a virus which would send information from victims computers to three foreign servers — one of which, was in Russia.
This does not automatically mean Russian intelligence or citizens were responsible for the emails.
The emails are of concern as Ms Clinton’s email address was not in the public domain and the false speeding tickets were from a town in the New York state area — the state in which Ms Clinton lived.
According to The Guardian, it's possible the emails were targeted at New York residents.
The revelation comes as questions mount over the former First Lady’s use of a server for private emails in her New York home.
Ms Clinton maintains that no information she sent or received over the server was classified.
Republican candidate Marco Rubio told Fox News: “The exposure of sensitive information to foreign intelligence agencies by communicating in an insecure manner is incompetent, it’s malpractice, it’s inexcusable.”
Nick Merrill, a spokesperson for Ms Clinton said: “We have no evidence to suggest she replied to this email or that she opened the attachment. As we have said before, there is no evidence that the system was ever breached.”
He continued: “All these emails show is that, like millions of other Americans, she received spam.”
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|Title:||Refugee Policy: a highly charged political issue|
|Citation:||Social Alternatives, 2013; 32(3):3-6|
|Abstract:||The challenge to humanitarianism posed by the vexed question of refugees and asylum seekers lies at the core of articles in this issue. In Western nations its demise is dramatic. Fanning the flames of xenophobia and racial prejudice to deflect attention from political issues is now a common ploy of governments. The problem is such that in 2012, The Council of Europe passed a resolution concerning the portrayal of refugees during election campaigns. The resolution noted Europe’s long history of emigration and its need for immigrants at a time of population ageing and a general public perception that refugees erode European cultural traditions. The Assembly regarded xenophobia to be responsible for ‘challenging democratic principles and respect for human dignity’ and felt that a strategy was needed to combat xenophobia during election campaigns. The problem was the habitual tendency of some candidates and political parties to present ‘migrants and refugees as a threat to and a burden on society’ (Parliamentary Assembly 2012). The Assembly also pointed out that the use of racist representations as an election ploy encourages the rise of xenophobic populist parties and feeds into more radical government anti-immigration policy. The resolution called for an ‘enhanced ethics in politics to help reduce racist tendencies in society’ (Parliamentary Assembly 2012) and urged politicians to take responsibility for the elimination of negative stereotyping and the stigmatisation of minority or migrant groups in political discourse and election campaigns. That the Council of Europe, a leading human rights organisation which includes 47 member states, should feel it necessary to comment on the tendency of governments and politicians to incite and inflame irrational fears during election campaigns is indicative of a shameful abdication of political responsibility. In a world where countries with far fewer resources than Western nations host far more refugees and asylum seekers, and where the only long term solution to refugee crisis is the resolution of those conflicts that result in large scale population displacement – making political capital out of misery is simply indefensible. ‘Refugees’ and ‘asylum seekers’ are emotive terms in many nations, and refugee policy is a highly charged political issue. In Australia, as in other industrialised states, refugees and asylum seekers have come to represent a whole gamut of fears and insecurities including threats to cultural identity, threats to immigration control, threats to jobs, and threats to nation-state sovereignty. Unfortunately governments, politicians and campaign strategists frequently fail in their ethical duty to maintain human rights and the rule of law. The 2001 Tampa affair in Australia is a case in point. The government of the day failed to provide truthful and factual information about asylum seekers and refugees to the general public and played on xenophobic rhetoric to secure and retain political power. The political controversy over the Tampa affair is mentioned in several articles in this issue of Social Alternatives. Suffice it to say here that the Australian government’s decision to turn back the Norwegian ship MV Tampa carrying rescued Afghani refugees prompted legal changes and the creation of the Border Protection Bill. Government policy and practice negatively informed public opinion towards refugees arriving by boat and led directly to the re-election of the Howard Liberal-Coalition government (who incidentally were trailing in the polls before the election). Since that time, neither an Australian Liberal-Coalition or Labor leader has spoken out on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers. Nor has any political leader sought to challenge the damning labels such as ‘queue jumpers’ and ‘illegals’ used by the popular media to refer to those who arrive on Australian shores by boat.|
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The Latest on Multiple Sclerosis and COVID-19 Vaccines The Latest on Multiple Sclerosis and COVID-19 Vaccines
Dr Stephen Krieger on how effective vaccines are in these patients, who should receive boosters, and when.Medscape Neurology
Discussion: Clinical and radiological findings in these cohort of MS patients confirmed disease re/activation and suggested a temporal association between disease activity and COVID-19 vaccination. The nature of this temporal association, whether causative or incidental, remains to be established.
Vaccine administration may be involved in the development of some central nervous system demyelinating diseases. The COVID-19 vaccine is being administered to the entire population, but to date, little association between vaccination and the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) has been suggested, and only a few case reports have been published. Here, we present a 40-year-old woman who developed cervical myelitis after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Myelitis was considered the initial clinical manifestation of MS.
AbstractMultiple Sclerosis (MS) has long been considered a T-cell-mediated autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. However, newer evidence shows that B cells play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of MS via antibody production, antigen presentation, T cell stimulation and activation, and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Developing B cells express the CD20 molecule from the pre-B cell to the plasmablast stage, and the anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies rituximab, ocrelizumab, ofatumumab and ublituximab are either in use or are being developed for treatment of MS as B cell-depleting therapies. They have show...
Condition: PWMS Who Have Completed Vaccination Against COVID-19 and Test Negative for COVID-19 Spike Protein Antibodies Using a Commercial Assay Interventions: Biological: Homologous booster; Biological: Heterologous booster Sponsors: Griffin Hospital; Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center Not yet recruiting
Since early December 2019, the Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the virus Sars-Cov-2, has devastated communities on a global scale, infected over 200 million people, and caused over 4.3 million deaths worldwide . In December 2020, the FDA approved two mRNA vaccines for Sars-Cov-2. After tiresome effort by healthcare workers around the world, over 4.7 billion doses of the vaccine have been administered as of August 2021 .
The statement concludes that COVID-19 vaccines are safe for patients with multiple sclerosis and that most MS patients gain the same protection as the general population. But there are exceptions.Medscape Medical News
Basel, 13 October 2021 – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced new long-term data that reinforce the benefit of early initiation and ongoing treatment of OCREVUS® (ocrelizumab) on disability progression in relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS) and primary progressive MS (PPMS), as well as safety outcomes for an analysis of shorter 2-hour infusion in minority populations. OCREVUS data from all clinical trials consistently show a favourable benefit-risk profile over eight years. Roche and research partners will also present four late-breaking abstracts to share the latest data regarding COVID-19 and vacci...
Condition: Multiple Sclerosis Intervention: Biological: COVID-19 vaccination Sponsors: Sheba Medical Center; Sanofi Recruiting


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Having stressed the importance of picking up three points in the lead-up to the game, Robbie Neilson was unsurprisingly pleased to see his MK Dons side triumph in Saturday’s clash with Gillingham.
Osman Sow enjoyed a dream debut on Saturday but the striker was keen to praise the entire team for the victory over Gillingham.
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Every bag of flour, may it be in a 25Kg sack or just a couple of pounds has an expiration date. But you can shorten or lengthen its life depending on how you store it. So I wrote this to see the tricks for extending the life of your flour, and I didn’t expect these tricks to work as well as they did! Here is everything you need to know on how to store flour!
The best way to store flour depends on how long you’re planning to store it. For the short term, using an airtight container, but leaving it in its bag at room temperature will do the job well in most cases. For mid-term storage, use airtight mylar bags. While for long-term storing, either put them inside the freezer or use vacuum-sealed bags.
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Why does flour go bad?
So why does flour go off in the first place? Well, wheat flour is composed of the grain’s bran, germ, and endosperm. As the flour sits around, it loses moisture from the germ through evaporation. The shelf life is directly linked to how much moisture remains inside the three components. When too much is lost, the flour becomes damaged and stale.
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But it’s not just moisture. Its storage environment plays a pivotal role in shelf life retention as well. In a humid climate, flour turns bad at a faster rate than in dry areas. That being said, there are other factors that cause the flour to be bad:
The breakdown of nutrients in the flour triggers a chemical reaction known as oxidation, caused by oxygen interacting with the flour. Oxidation makes natural oils found in whole grain flours turn rancid. This changes their flavour and makes them stale or spoiled. Because of this, old flours not only lose a lot of nutritional value but also taste terrible. To lower the effect of oxygen, keep flour sealed.
As humidity causes the flour to absorb moisture, it can lead to the formation of mould. You may not even know something is wrong by looking at aged flour, but if it has a rancid aroma, it’s gone off! To avoid mould, keep flour in a dry area.
Grains are the natural habitat for bugs and other insects that lay and hatch eggs. The most common one is the flour fly or weevil, they love flour! These insects can infiltrate your flour making it turn bad and taste terrible. Once these guys take hold, they are very hard to get rid of! I almost got sacked from a job because of these guys (not that it was really my fault) so I know how much of a pain they are! It’s common to get the odd one or two now and again, it’s often a case of sifting them out.
If you have badly sealed doors either get them sealed or store your flour as far away as possible. If you live near fields where bugs are already common it’s especially important to keep windows shut and areas wiped down from flour dust to prevent attracting the bugs.
Outside smell and odour
Flour is an odour sponge that absorbs smells that are near. For example, storing flour next to garlic means your goods baked goods will be likely perfumed with garlic too. Also, if the flour is stored close to cleaning products, they may ruin it too.
Shelf life of different types of flour
So now that we know why our flour goes bad, let’s discuss how long it lasts. So you know… you’re not playing guessing games in the kitchen. The shelf life varies depending on the type of flour.
The chart below will give you a rough idea of how long the different types of flours will last. As you can see whole grain flour has a shorter life than white flour. This is because whole grains contain the wheat germ which becomes rancid quickly.
|Flour Type||Room Temperature Pantry|
|Whole-Wheat Flour||3-6 months|
|Cake Flour||6-9 months|
|Bread Flour||4-9 months|
|Rye Flour||3-6 months|
|Self-rising Flour||4-6 months|
|Oat Flour||1-3 months|
|Barley Flour||2-3 months|
|Gluten-Free or Alternative Flours(banana, buckwheat, coconut, nuts, rice, etc.)||2-5 months|
The best way to store flour
There are many ways to store fresh flour that you can use to keep your flour. Some are designed to keep flour long term, other flour storage methods take up less space and resources.
Short term storing flour method
When storing flour for a couple of months for standard use. You can just let it sit in a pantry or somewhere that’s dry, cool and dark. Flour kept for a short time can be left in its bag. Others decant into 5-gallon containers as there’s less chance of getting flour dust all over the place when making bread.
Midterm storing of flour with an airtight container
For storing flour for more than a few months, transfer it to an airtight container food storage container with a tight seal so that no moisture or air can get inside. This will prevent your flour from turning bad and slows down oxidation.
Using oxygen absorbers
Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers are excellent. If you are worried about bugs, or for some extra keeping quality, you can put them inside the fridge.
How to store flour for years
Using the freezer
Storing flour for several months, a year, or even longer is still possible. You’ll want to keep your wheat and grains tasting as fresh as possible. Placing your bags or containers of flour in the freezer is a great solution. Leave the flour out until it’s reached room temperature before using it.
If you're planning on storing your bags of flour in the freezer for a long time, remember to leave room for the flour to expand. This is because some of the water will evaporate inside and cause moisture build-up in the container.
Using vacuum-sealed bags
You can also transfer the flour to a vacuum-sealed container. This will prevent air from interacting with the product inside. As some vacuum-sealed bags are not food-safe, if you’re not sure, it’s best to pour the flour into a food-safe bag, push out as much air as you can, and then into a bag to vacuum seal.
The flour will keep for ages with these methods, sometimes as long as two years!
Disadvantages of storing flour for a long time
A 25Kg bag of flour is going to fill a lot of small bags, which can be expensive and not great for the environment. Putting it in the freezer is also going to take up a lot of premium space. Most bakers combat this by storing ½ or ⅓ of their flour in a long term solution. The rest can be kept in a cool place.
How to determine if the flour has gone bad?
If you notice that your flour has discoloured, become mouldy, smells rancid, feels wet or the bread you make has a lower rise; your flour has most likely gone off. If you have ever found a bag of whole-grain flour in the back of the cupboard you can probably relate!
See my how to tell if flour has gone bad article for more information.
Frequently asked questions about storing flour
What happens if you use expired flour?
It depends on the status of your flour. The “best-before” or “consume before” labels are a great guide, but depending on how you store them its shelf life can be increased or lowered. If it still looks and smells healthy, expired flour can still be used. It may not form as good of a gluten structure as you’d like but can still make bread.
How to store flour to prevent bugs?
Store your flour away from where bugs can get in. This can be in a sealed container away from the windows and doors. Sometimes flour will contain bugs and eggs when it leaves the mill. To be sure you can freeze it before storing it. This will kill off the live bugs and eggs and prevent infestations.
What is the shelf life of flour?
White flour can last up to 9 months if stored at room temperature. Whole wheat and whole grain varieties will go off sooner as they contain the bran. To keep flour fresh for as long as possible buy in small quantities, store in a sealed container or freeze it.
Does flour get old?
Yes! Oxidation, mould and loss of moisture can all turn flour bad. If you notice a rancid smell or discolouration you should throw it away!
How to keep flour fresh?
The best way to keep flour fresh is to buy it in small quantities. The simplest way to keep larger amounts fresh is to decant them into airtight containers and store them in the fridge or freezer.
Does cake flour go bad?
Yes! Cake flour and all-purpose flour if kept in an airtight container will last from 9 months to a year! But if you keep it in the freezer or in vacuum-sealed bags it will last for years. Self-rising flour will last for four to six months in the pantry and up to a year in the fridge or freezer.
Can you use flour 2 years out of date?
Packaged flours have expiration dates, however, these labels aren’t always accurate and flour can be safe to use even after its best-before date. Check for mould, discolouration or rancid smells before using it.


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Recombinant protein vaccines, such as the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, offer several advantages over traditional vaccines.
They are easy to manufacture with precision, they are safe and may be more effective, and they could require lower doses.
Due to these features, there is significant interest in developing recombinant influenza vaccines. However, the Food and Drug Administration has only approved one such vaccine so far.
A research team led by the University at Buffalo aims to increase this number. They are developing a new recombinant influenza vaccine, described in a study published today in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, which has the potential to compete with existing vaccines.
Due to the varying nature of the viruses that cause influenza, current vaccines are not optimally effective in the general population. We believe that our vaccine candidate has the potential to address this by eliciting stronger and broader immunity, reducing the likelihood of disease and death.“
Jonathan Lovell, PhD, senior co-author of the study, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UB
Conventional influenza vaccines either contain inactivated influenza pathogens or are based on weakened forms of the disease. They are produced from fertilized chicken eggs or, less commonly, by cell culture production.
The vaccine being developed by the UB-led team is based on a nanoliposome – a tiny spherical vesicle – that Lovell and his colleagues created called Cobalt-Porphyrin-Phospholipid or CoPoP. The CoPoP platform allows for the presentation of proteins that promote the immune response on the surface of the nanoliposome, leading to enhanced vaccine efficacy.
(While the CoPoP vaccine platform is not part of this study, it has been tested as a COVID-19 vaccine candidate in clinical phase 2 and phase 3 trials in South Korea and the Philippines. This is a partnership between the UB spin-off company POP Biotechnologies, co-founded by Lovell, and the South Korean biotech company EuBiologics.)
These nanoliposomes alone do not combat diseases. However, when combined with recombinant influenza proteins that can be generated based on genetic information from viruses, they enhance the immune response to diseases.
In the new study, the team attached a total of six proteins to the nanoliposome – three from each of two different protein groups, the hemagglutinins and neuraminidases. The team also added two adjuvants (PHAD and QS21) to enhance the immune response.
Researchers tested the resulting „Hexaplex“ nanoliposome in animal models with three common influenza strains: H1N1, H3N2, and Type B.
Even when administered at low doses, the Hexaplex nanoliposome provided superior protection and improved survival against H1N1 compared to Flublok, the only recombinant influenza vaccine approved in the US, and Fluaid, an egg-based vaccine. Tests showed comparable protection against H3N2 and Type B viruses.
The tests were conducted using vaccination and transfer of serum from vaccinated mice to unvaccinated mice.
„The combination of the two protein groups resulted in synergistic effects. In particular, the adjuvanted nanoliposomes demonstrated the production of functional antibodies and activation of T cells, which are crucial for defense against severe influenza infections,“ said lead author Zachary Sia, a graduate student in Lovell’s lab.
Bruce Davidson, PhD, research associate in Anesthesiology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, is a senior co-author of the study.
He said, „Utilizing not only hemagglutinin but also neuraminidase antigens to create vaccines is important as it leads to broader immunity and allows companies to produce more doses with less material. This is crucial not only for influenza but also for potential outbreaks, as we have seen with COVID-19. There is still much work to be done to fully test and validate this flu technology, but at this point, these initial results are quite promising.“
Co-authors of the study include researchers from McGill University in addition to UB.
Patents related to this work have been filed with the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. Lovell and study co-author Wei-Chiao Huang, a postdoctoral researcher in Lovell’s lab, are employed at POP Biotechnologies.
The study was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Sia, ZR, et al. (2024) Adjuvanted Nanoliposomes Presenting Six Hemagglutinins and Neuraminidases as an Influenza Virus Vaccine. Cell Reports Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101433.


SPEARFISH — Since 2009, Visit Spearfish has been marketing and branding the city of Spearfish to tourists and visitors from throughout the country. As travel and tourism took a major dip in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Visit Spearfish was still able to pull off some impressive victories which were highlighted during its annual meeting and awards presentation.
“One of the major things of note, of course, is that despite the challenges of 2020, we were able to see through local vending that hospitality tax ended up above 2019, which is just absolutely unheard of,” said Mistie Caldwell, executive director of Visit Spearfish.
Caldwell said the city has not seen a dip in hospitality tax since 2015. Instead, that number has incrementally, but steadily increased, with a 2% jump in 2020 to $719,986.22.
Although spending was up in the areas of retail and food and beverages, where hospitality tax is collected, hotel bid fees were down in 2020 by nearly 20%, meaning people were visiting Spearfish, just not staying in Spearfish.
“It was a tough year on our hoteliers,” Caldwell said. “Even though people weren’t able to travel the desire to travel was there.”
Caldwell said increased web traffic and requests for visitor guides to Spearfish were way up in the later half of 2020 as folks began to plan their pandemic break-out vacations for 2021.
“In the fourth quarter of 2020, over the fourth quarter of 2019, we saw an increase in visitor guide requests of over 25%,” she said.
Those folks taking an interest in Spearfish were treated to Caldwell’s marketing team highlighting the wide-open outdoor offerings of Spearfish. From open-air shopping and dining, to adventure destination getaways.
“We were able to do all that while communicating a safe travel message, which was, of course at the center of any of our communications,” she said.
That marketing, along with sponsoring local events that bring people in from all over the country makes up more than 40% of Visit Spearfish’s spending, which has clearly already begun to pay off for the city.
“Hospitality tax in just the month of April, is up 48% (from April 2020),” Caldwell said. “Year-to-year, so going back January through April, we’re up 8% year to date.”
With hotels and campgrounds “busting at the seams,” Caldwell said she’s already seen 36 of the 50 states represented in tourists passing through the Visit Spearfish’s downtown building.
“(Not including 2020) our visitor center traffic is 20% higher than it has been any other year,” she said.
Caldwell said the fact that so many Spearfish events take place outside, and all that the area has to offer for outdoor recreation has been a great help to keeping the flow of visitors to Spearfish strong. However, vaccinated visitors become more common place, allowing for indoor activities to safely start back up, she said she’s equally excited to see the brick-and-mortar businesses in town enjoy the fruits of Visit Spearfish’s marketing efforts.
“It’s going to be fantastic to see the Matthew’s Opera House be able to pull off “Alice in Wonderland” and for the High Plains Western Heritage Center to have their cowboy supper and show,” she said. “I’m very excited for our partners to be able to have those opportunities to come back. We’re really excited to support that.”
Along with highlighting the successes of a very difficult year, and the optimistic outlook for the year to come, two awards were presented during the annual get together.
“Each year (the Tip of the Spear Award) focus on someone or an organization that focuses on building or growing a signature Spearfish event, which of course is good for the economy and it’s helpful to us,” Caldwell explained.
This year, Visit Spearfish recognized Frank Pavich and the Black Hills Nationals AAU World Folkstyle Wrestling Tournament.
“Frank, his wife Kit and Paul Soriano dedicate hundreds of hours to ensuring the wrestlers and their families, as well as the Spearfish community benefit from the toils of all their labors,” Caldwell said. “Thank you to the entire Black Hills Nationals Team for making Spearfish the home for your event.”
The Friend of Spearfish Award is presented to a group or person that plays an integral role in the marketing and promotion of Spearfish as a partner with Visit Spearfish.
“The essence of this award is to recognize businesses or individuals who are the “behind-the-scenes” partners who contribute to the overall success of the organization and its efforts,” Caldwell said.
The 2021 Friend of Spearfish Award was presented to Digital Designs for their creative web design and online advertising which has brought the beauty of Spearfish to the fingertips of America.
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Autosum Keyboard Shortcut Bug
Can you please fix the autosum keyboard shortcut to behave like that of Excel 2011. It seems like the behavior is broken in Excel 2016. it sum a row at the bottom of a column way to fast and doesn't let you see the selection and press enter to except it. Also, when summing from the side it does a fast 1 cell sum but you need to hold down the key combination to get the selection cursor in order to make a larger column selection. Please fix. Thank you.