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Art Beat is your one-stop shop for everything related to the visual and performing arts in S.A. Hosted by Express-News arts writers Elda Silva and Deborah Martin.
Monthly Archive for December, 2010
Looking to get a little face time with Holland Taylor and help out an all-girls school in Austin? Here’s how you can do it. Taylor is in town to perform “Ann: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards,” her solo play about the late governor. The show — which is getting only its second go-round right […] [Read More]
The program for “Christmastime at the Overtime” promises “Magic! Mayhem! Merriment!” And the show delivers on all counts. It’s a spectacularly silly sketch show built around the efforts of a determined elf (Lilly Canaria) to boost Santa’s (Rob Barron) gloomy mood and get him to cancel his plans to blow himself up. Yeah — it’s […] [Read More]
The San Pedro Playhouse’s third annual holiday staging of “A Christmas Carol,” directed for the first time by William McCrary, is a genuine treat. The musical — once again featuring a terrific performance from Byrd Bonner as Ebenezer Scrooge — is frequently dazzling visually and emotionally moving. “A Christmas Carol” plays at the San Pedro […] [Read More]
For most shows, the San Pedro Playhouse does not have a matinee opening weekend, but “A Christmas Carol” is a special case. The musical, which opens this weekend, will have a matinee at 2:30 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 5). Performances are at 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 19, with additional shows at […] [Read More]
The organizers for the 2011 edition of Luminaria are looking for variety acts of all stripes to roam across HemisFair Park throughout the event. Performers who are interested — not to mention artists in other media who want to take part — need to get on the stick. Applications should be postmarked no later than Dec. […] [Read More]
AtticRep’s fifth season is off to a strong start with “Straight,” former San Antonian David Schmader’s solo show about his undercover excursions into the world of conversion therapy, a movement that aims to turn homosexuals away from that lifestyle. The piece, directed by Andrew Thornton, is sharply observed and masterly performed. “Straight” plays through Dec. […] [Read More]


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36-year-old ms. wu is a secondary school teacher, most recently in january her right breast pain is often felt, thought it was to pre-menstrual normal reaction, but after the end of such period, the feeling of pain is increasing, think of a colleague recently suffering from breast cancer unit, quickly came to leave the hospital breast center for treatment. after examination, ms. wu breast tenderness is due to the recurrence of cervical disease.
breast pain and cervical spondylosis, it seems a bit irrelevant. daily life, like the chest area of cervical disease outbreaks symptoms of angina and arrhythmias, has been recognized, and breast pain may be intractable cervical nerve root irritation of the symptoms are seldom recognized. breast pain that some people because of long lasting, even if the back had "breast cancer" ideological baggage. doctors prompt you a female friend, breast tenderness, cervical spondylosis is one of the reasons to pay attention to the prevention of female friends.
= breast cancer, breast disease?
breast pain many women's first reaction is to look to the hospital breast surgery, especially for the "breast cancer" in the name is quite sensitive. experts point out, such as clinical as wu caused by cervical spondylosis refractory breast pain is not uncommon, known as the "neck breast tenderness," the main reason is the sleep position is not correct, long-term strain or damage caused by external traction cervical degenerative disease, oppression, and to stimulate the cervical nerve roots, resulting in soft tissue near the spasm, edema, chronic degeneration induced breast pain.
experts said, cervical and breast tenderness in the ordinary symptoms of breast pain significantly different. "clinically, neck breast tenderness usually chronic, and is unilateral, in more common in older women. the degree of pain is often related to the location and neck and neck with the other proportional to the degree of nerve root involvement in addition to breast pain, but also contact with the pectoralis major muscle tenderness, and neck, pillow, shoulder and arm pain and discomfort, nerve root involvement dominated areas of strength, feeling will change. neck x-ray if there bone growth or cervical stenosis can gap diagnosis, such as x-ray films are often signs of degenerative diseases, such as bone spurs, etc., to the sixth, seventh cervical department of involvement is the most common, and the breast itself, no abnormality was found. "
experts said the cause of breast pain for many reasons, some physical pain, not too tight. antecedents such as menstrual cramps, increased estrogen levels, caused by hyperplasia of the breast pain and tenderness in the breast; women during pregnancy because of congestion caused the breast sensitive breast, breast tenderness often produce; postpartum swelling breast milk and breast swelling caused the poor pain, nodules; menopausal women and young women after abortion due to decreased estrogen levels caused by localized breast pain, lumps, etc. however, if the cervical disease, chest wall diseases caused by neuropathic pain will have to pay attention to timely medical treatment.
physician reminded female friend, when suddenly the breast persistent, severe pain or acupuncture-like pulsating pain, persistent burning pain, or nipple discharge while ulceration of the skin around the nipple, it must as soon as possible to the hospital in order to guard against the occurrence of malignant lesions.
it is understood that the "neck breast tenderness," the long-term high-risk population, including the teachers desk, long-term shoulder weight-bearing women and vulnerable to external damage to the female athletes.
as a result of the need, some people need special posture or forced posture, if not pay attention to prevent, it is prone to chronic fatigue symptoms arising from cervical spondylosis.
long desk staff, typists, accountants, teachers, long on the computer, a high degree of inappropriate long tables and chairs, are prone to neck and shoulder strain.
"many jobs, such as painters, electricians, engineering lettering, vehicle or machinery mechanic, embroidery, sewing, drivers, etc., and those with special occupational position, if not promptly corrected, coupled with poor working conditions, but also accelerated the neck, the incidence of soft tissue strain. "
this strain may be cured if promptly corrected, or long-term continues, will develop into bone and joint damage, eventually leading to cervical disease.
white women for cervical doing "calisthenics"
"white-collar women, long desk, and lack of exercise, every day staring at computer screens, the only activity of the upper and lower body only a hand holding the mouse. the tremendous work pressure caused mental stress, but also for cervical become exhausted. "li for white-collar office people often feel back pain, or even to feel breast tenderness, so experts explained.
busy work and life pressures, so we often ignore the neck discomfort, and long-term oppression of the neck can easily induced cervical disease.
small office cubicle although people can not fully stretch the body and neck muscles, but in the desk to a small extent, "looked around", that either side was the anti- direction of the alternating activities neck, but it allows the neck to get a rest, so that cervical spine to be "calisthenics."
doctors recommend long-term teachers desk, white-collar workers and other women home after work, leisure and home as much as possible put on loose clothes, and pay attention to correct incorrect sleeping posture.
in their daily lives to treat cervical spine, especially for a special position to maintain a fixed straight people need to take a break every half hour or so, slowing of the cervical spine, "soft loss "do not look at just a few steps leisure small action on the prevention of cervical spondylosis is a great help. if conditions permit, you can take a number of health products nutritional supplements.
doing a small addition to the regular exercise, experts also advise women should pay attention to my friends to feel comfortable. working pressure, pay attention to adjust the pace of life, not only harmful to women's cervical health, is not conducive to women's mental outlook and living conditions.
"breast tenderness and mood swings often, work stress, etc. have a certain relationship of women's mental condition affecting the body's hormones and menstrual cramps. too busy with work, the pressure increases big time, not only menstrual disorders, breast pain will emerge. "
some women" expect, "breast tenderness may occur before and after menstruation, often in time to certainly a pain, it has formed a kind of psychological suggestion and conditioning. so to feel comfortable is to reduce or eliminate the spirit of the best methods of breast tenderness.

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By Saifulbahri Ismail, Channel NewsAsia, 10 Sep 2012.
From next year, building owners will have to do more to show they’re energy efficient.
They have to fulfil three new requirements under the Building Control Act.
They have to get a minimum Green Mark standard when a cooling system is installed or changed.
The Green Mark is a benchmarking scheme by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) to promote sustainability such as reducing water and energy consumption by adopting best practices in environmental design.
They also have to submit energy audits on the cooling system once every three years as well as energy consumption data every year. Read more
Senior Parliamentary Secretary Maliki announced an enhanced Green Mark Incentive Scheme for existing buildings [Speeches]
1. Good morning. It is my pleasure to join you today at the “World Workplace Asia Conference and Exhibition 2012”.
2. Asia’s urban population is expected to increase from 1.9 billion to 3.3 billion by 2050 . By 2025, seven of the world’s top ten megacities with 10 million or more inhabitants, will be in Asia . This unprecedented population growth in urban centres will pose challenges in terms of housing and infrastructure for all countries. It is a daunting task for cities to support an ever more crowded planet, and to do so in a sustainable manner.
3. Moving forward, the key is all about sustainability. We are fully aware of global concerns over climate change, and increasing demand on our limited land, water and energy resources. Countries all over the world are mapping out strategies to achieve greater environmental sustainability without compromising economic growth. Read more
New Financing Scheme and Minimum Standards for Existing Buildings Announced at the International Green Building Conference 2011
Minister of State for National Development and Manpower, BG (NS) Tan Chuan-Jin announced a new financing scheme and minimum Green Mark standards for existing buildings at today’s opening of the International Green Building Conference (IGBC) 2011, which is part of the annual Singapore Green Building Week.
In the Singapore Sustainable Blueprint, the government has set a target to green 80% of Singapore’s buildings by 2030. 95% of Singapore’s building stock are existing buildings. The challenge is how to green the existing buildings, given the higher cost of retrofitting and the lack of financing.
To help existing building owners overcome the barrier of high upfront retrofitting costs, BG (NS) Tan announced that the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) will launch a pilot scheme from 1 Oct called the Building Retrofit Energy Efficiency Financing (BREEF) Scheme. Read more


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The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
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“Myths are the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are . . .”
China, 1937. When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of students, faculty and staff must walk 1,000 miles to the safety of China’s western provinces, a journey marred by the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just the refugees who are at risk; Lian and her classmates have been entrusted with a priceless treasure: a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends.
The students’ common duty to safeguard the Library of Legends creates unexpected bonds. Lian becomes friends and forms a cautious romance with the handsome and wealthy Liu Shaoming. But after one classmate is arrested and another one is murdered, Lian realizes she must escape before a family secret puts her in danger too. Accompanied by Shao and his enigmatic maidservant, Sparrow, Lian makes her way to Shanghai in the hopes of reuniting with her mother.
During the journey, Lian learns of the connection between her two companions and a tale from the Library of Legends, The Willow Star and the Prince. This revelation comes with profound consequences, for as the ancient books travel across China, they awaken immortals and guardian spirits who embark on an exodus of their own, one that will change the country’s fate forever.
Beach Read by Emily Henry
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A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
The Paris Hours by Alex George
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One day in the City of Lights. One night in search of lost time.
Paris between the wars teems with artists, writers, and musicians, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city’s most famous citizens, four regular people are each searching for something they’ve lost.
Camille was the maid of Marcel Proust, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer’s notebooks, she saved one for herself. Now she is desperate to find it before her betrayal is revealed. Souren, an Armenian refugee, performs puppet shows for children that are nothing like the fairy tales they expect. Lovesick artist Guillaume is down on his luck and running from a debt he cannot repay—but when Gertrude Stein walks into his studio, he wonders if this is the day everything could change. And Jean-Paul is a journalist who tells other people’s stories, because his own is too painful to tell. When the quartet’s paths finally cross in an unforgettable climax, each discovers if they will find what they are looking for.
Told over the course of a single day in 1927, The Paris Hours takes four ordinary people whose stories, told together, are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
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Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.
Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .
It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow.
In the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.
Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Thriller, Mystery, Suspense
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EACH HAS A SECRET, EACH HAS A MOTIVE.
Off the windswept Irish coast, guests gather for the wedding of the year.
ONE GUEST WON’T LEAVE THIS WEDDING ALIVE…
GUESTS ARE INVITED TO CORMORANT ISLAND.
The stag is set for the marriage of Jules Keegan and Will Slater. The setting is spectacular, the planning meticulous, the atmosphere alive with nostalgia as the guests toast the most golden of couples.
Yet under the cloak of happniess, dark secrets begin to spill and old grudges surface. And the wedding cake has barely been cut when someone is found dead.
As a storm unleashes its fury on the island, everyone is trapped – and the killer circulates amongst the guests.
IT STARTS WITH A PARTY.
IT’LL END IN MURDER.
Are you going to grab any of these books? Let me know which one you want the most.

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I'd hate to teach without this! Nov 29, 2007
This charming book addresses the age-old cry "I want Mommy" in a wonderfully reassuring way. Two owl babies try to reassure themselves and each other when they awaken at night to find Mommy gone. The littlest sib cuts right to the point "I want Mommy!" Engaging illustrations, a very mild sense of worry, and a soothing text let young children share their own concern along with the reassurance of Mommy Owl's return. A favorite packaging of the assurance that Mommy always comes back. The premise has been tested over years of pre-school classes--hesitant smiles replace tears and become broader with repeated reading.

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Coronavirus Has Helped Reduced Adultery In Ghana – Lil Win Says
Lil Win disclosed that the coronavirus which led to a partial lockdown in some parts of Accra, Kumasi and Obuasi has brought down adultery and stealing since everyone is at home.
“This pandemic has really brought down adultery and stealing. Who are you going to steal from?Everyone is home” He quizzed.
Lil Win asserted that since movement is currently restricted, it has become very difficult for people to visit their boyfriends and girlfriends.
The popular Kumawood actor further stated that he will support the government by making videos on his social media platforms to create awareness on the need to follow laid down precautions by authorities to help curb the coronavirus pandemic.


Film: Black & White
Director: Subhash Ghai
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Anurag Sinha, Aditi Sharma, Shefali Shah, Habib Tanvir
Banner: Mukta Searchlight Films
Dialogue: Subhash Ghai, Akarsh Khurana, Sachin Bahumick
Cinematography: Somak Mukherjee
Art Director: Leena Chanda
Editor: Amitabh Shukla
When a master craves to explore his creativity he generally turns inwards for inspiration. But Subhash Ghai’s search for immortality deals with a subject of universal importance. That is Black and White’s first triumph.
The film resides within the context of international terrorism and the Hindu-Muslim communal tension. Within this context it explores the world of Jehadi terrorists bred under the illusion of blood wiping away all sin and pain. It lays bare the mindset of a young fundamentalist willing to lay down his life for his false notion of religion and the forces of peace, love and truth that alone can overcome such fanaticism.
Black and White is an attempt to sensitize people to the range of the problem that is terrorism. It is not a treatise advocating peace through accounts of past massacres. It is a dedicated appeal to our minds and more importantly to our philosophies as a nation and people to look beyond the obvious melodrama that surrounds communal strife world-over.
Through the character of Rajan Mathur, a Hindu Urdu teacher, (Anil Kapoor) is built a world of a simple nation and humanity-loving individual whose belief in non-violence meets flaming irons of Hindu-hatred in the intense fidayeen Mahmood alias Numair. He constantly strives to keep the sensibility and integrity of India from disintegrating under the mindlessness of communal issues in his personal and professional arena. He shares this alacrity to be involved with his activist wife Romi, (Shefali Chhaya) who also forms the centre of emotion that affects Mahmood like no other.
But Black and White is no simplistic fairy tale of criminals meant to be redeemed by the power of love and truth. In fact the film is not about redemption, it is about perspectives and solutions. Perspectives to enhance understanding the festering of the present situation. Perspectives that will enable to bring about solutions for the same. Perspectives in order to bring us out from our narrow concerns and accept that there are no simple solutions to this problem which is not only of religion but of politics, greed, selfishness and regressive, limited social values. Exposition of these various aspects in a number of subtle layers throughout the film, is its second triumph.
Despite umpteen temptations to theorize, sermonise and take sides the film masterfully resists all of them. A third triumph. Veterans writers like Ghai himself, Akash Khurana and Sachin Bhaumick make an impartial statement of the situation as is without rhetoric and without weakness. Mahmood’s character brilliantly delivers the stony reality of a Jehadi along with the compunctions that arise in his heart at meeting different versions of his own truth. There is a world of Islam beyond fanatic fundamentalism and Mahmood’s introduction to it is a brilliant piece of film writing that is not only engaging but educating and fulfilling within the screenplay.
Yet, despite a winning horse Black and White delivers a runner-up. The treatment of scenes of political intrigue, international threat and internal power play remain naively etched. Reality seems a bit tweaked to accommodate the message of peace. Scenes between Rajan Mathur and Romi seem to lack finesse and character, a drawback that does the film harm in the larger context given the emotional core that they represent. Though the film is about abundance of shades in perspective, Rajan Mathur’s character lacks certain completeness and comes across as more 2D than the much cherished 3D would have. Maybe it is the fault of characterisation that Shefali Chhaya and Anil Kapoor, both brilliant actors, shine but fail to dazzle in more than one scene. Anurag Sinha in his debut is immensely impressive. The intense eyes, set jaw and complete control with which he executes his character in no way reveals that this is a debutante. Most importantly he convinces and hence helps the director to.
Music, cinematography and editing always have been Ghai’s warhorses with whom he has won many a war. Framing, tonality and right colours have captured the stark to the tender with relish. Music similarly highlights the dramatic movements of the film and complements it ably. Editing is crisp and smart not slick and it has ensured that the film is richer in its expression but still to the point.
This probably might be Subhash Ghai’s first non-mass movie but the attempt is in the right direction.


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2023 1 oz Silver Perth Mint Dragon Rectangular Coin
Mint: Perth Mint, Australia
Design: Embark on a mythical journey with the 2023 1 oz Silver Perth Mint Dragon Rectangular Coin. Minted by the esteemed Perth Mint in Australia, this coin features a captivating design that brings the legendary dragon to life. Struck from one troy ounce of .999 fine silver, it is a masterpiece that seamlessly blends tradition with modern craftsmanship.
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It’s the start of a brand new adventure for these Hell Week stars!
Ryan Andrews and Marc O’Neill have headed off to face the challenge of climbing the mighty Mount Everest. The pair have already run into some obstacles before even reaching the tough terrain as their flight to the mountain got cancelled due to poor weather conditions. However, this wasn’t about to stop the lads from finding their way up the mountain, they survived Hell Week, remember?!
Ryan filled followers in on his Instagram stories explaining that they had to charter a helicopter to take them where they needed to go as time was ticking and they only have a few days to do their climb.
“We are under pressure now, we have to leave in the next two minutes because that’s our airtime slot, unless we miss it and we don’t get out, so it’s all part of the journey you don’t know what’s going to happen or what way it’s going to go, but we got there in the end,” Ryan explained as he walked toward their helicopter waiting to take to the skies.
Updating followers in more detail today he added; “Day. 2 Easily the wildest day I’ve ever had in my life – 22hours & still going! We started with waking up at 4.00am, arriving in Kathmandu airport at 5.15am for our flight to Lukla Airport at 6.15am!”
Continuing, he shared that Lukla is known as one of the most dangerous airports in the world due to the often adverse weather conditions. This is what impacted their flight resulting in them booking a helicopter to get them where they needed to go!
“We needed to act fast as all flights over the next few days were booked, weather conditions were uncertain & we have an extremely tight schedule, so booking a helicopter became our new priority! With limited availability & now ‘Supply & Demand’ we finalised the deal & we headed off!”
Marc shared a picture of the group and their helicopter to his Instagram stories, really helping followers stay updated on the trip.
But that wasn’t the end of their adventure of travelling, Marc later shared a snap of himself walking in the dark telling followers the second helicopter had to make an emergency landing leaving the lads to hike in the “middle of the night”, yikes!
It looks like the lads made it okay as Marc then shared a snap of himself and a new furry friend, looking all smiles as in the rest of the pictures. They truly seem to be loving the challenge already, and this is only the beginning.
We will be keeping up with their trip as long as they are posting, we love seeing their trip so far!
Best of luck lads!

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LAWRENCEVILLE -- A citizens committee slated to study the county airport is now full, so meetings are expected to begin soon.
Commissioner Shirley Lasseter added her picks to the board Tuesday: Terry Britt and Nickie Summers.
"I did try to pick people who were very open-minded. Neither one of them have a dog in this fight except to do what is best for Gwinnett County," Lasseter said of her appointees to the committee, formed to study the controversial proposal to privatize Briscoe Field in Lawrenceville.
Other commissioners chose their representatives two weeks ago. The members include: Gaye McNeil, Steve Ramey, Mary Jane Polizzotto, Woody Woodruff. Jeff Timler, Gary Custar, Tony Powell and Jim Regan. Tip Cape will represent the county's airport authority.
County spokesman Joe Sorenson said officials are "working out some kinks," before a request for proposals is issued for companies interested in taking over the general aviation airport. After more than a year of pubic outcry, officials now plan to seek proposals that continue the operations as general aviation, allowing companies to propose commercial flights as part of a long-term vision for the airport.
A meeting date for the committee has not yet been set.


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4 year old has autism, what can we expect?
Are ADHD and autism related?
Are asperger's syndrome and high functioning autism the same thing?
Are chromosomal disorders considered as autism?
Are hie and autism related?
Are racing thoughts a symptom of aspergers/high functioning autism? What should I do?
Are the symptoms of bipolar and autism similar?
Are there any links between antibiotics and autism?
Are there doctors with autism disorder? Is it a considered a taboo if they have it?
Are there links between premature birth and autism, schizophrenia and/or low iq?
Are you born with an autism spectrum disorder or can you develop it later on in life like adulthood?
Assessments for autism spectrum disorders? Which places in the u.S. Don't over-diagnose or under-diagnose?
At what age are you too old to be diagnosed with autism?
At what age can people be diagnosed with aspergers?
At what age will you see a child with autism display social withdrawal?
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and asperger's are very similar, don't you think that ADHD could be a variant of the autism spectrum?
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Is it possible that it could be genetic as well?
Can a GFCF diet help with SPD and autism?
Can autism be misdiagnosed as mental retardation?
Can autism not be recognized until teenage years?
Can autistic people have some of the same characteristics as someone with ocd?
Can brain trauma cause autism spectrum disorder?
Can high anxiety levels cause autism spectrum disorder?
Can it be no problem to marry a man with autism spectrum disorder?
Can people with autism spectrum disorder live independently on their own?
Can someone tell me any hindu raga for autism. Which music can cure autism?
Can there be a relationship between aspergers and dysgraphia?
Can there be a way to turn your aspergers off?
Can you explain where did autism come from?
Can you please explain why so many believe you can't have autism and schizophrenia ?
Can you please tell me how high functioning autism and asbergers differ?
Can you please tell me how high functioning autism and autism differ?
Can you please tell me how schizophrenia and autism differ?
Can you predict if your child has autism spectrum disorder?
Can you tell me how can autism affect you?
Can you tell me how can I know if I have semantic pragmatic disorder or asbergers?
Can you tell me how exactly is autism classified, and what are its symptoms?
Can you tell me how i can be a more social person if you have autism?
Can you tell me how i can tell someone that i think I have high functioning autism?
Can you tell me if that autism spectrum disorder is a disease to be cured and done away with or a different way of?
Can you tell me what is the difference between ADHD and autism?
Can you tell me where does the words autistic and autism come from?
Could any expert explain autism spectrum disorder? Thanks!
Could aspergers/high functioning autism be a type of developmental delayment?
Could autism be a form of retardation?
Could autism cause you to have brain developmental disorders?
Could autism/ aspergers be due to a mutation?
Could autism/aspergers/bipolar get worse if someone is transsexual?
Could everyone have some degree of autism?
Could having an autism gene cause epilepsy?
Could there be a connection between homosexuality and aspergers?
Did anyone discover the link between autism and schizophrenia?
Difference between dysphasia and autism?
Do autism spectrum disorders affect one's intellectual capacity or just behavior?
Do autistic people or people with aspergers have personality disorders or are they neurodivergent?
Do I have a mild form of autism or asperger's? Whats the difference?
Do kids with autism have distinct physical features?
Do people with turners have normal iq?
Do those who have asperger's syndrome lack empathy, or is it just the the people with high functioning autism?
Docs, what's autism exactly and what causes it?
Does a link exist between immunizations and autism?
Does B12 vitamin help with autism spectrum disorders?
Does gfcf diets help symptoms of autism?
Does mitochondrial dysfunction cause some sort of autism spectrum disorder?
Does psychopathy involve a spectrum?
For what length of time do people have autism?
Has mercury been linked to autism?
Have been diagnosed with asperger's but i don't think I have it - could my doctor be wrong?
Hello docs, is ADHD comparable to autism or alzheimers?
Hello docs, is asperger's disorder considered a disability?
Help please! is autism as common in australia than the us?
Help please! is autism considered to be an illness?
Help please! is autism just a nice way to say retardation?
Help please! is autism spectrum disorder an actual disease or just a name of a group of disorders?
Help! exactly what is stimming (asperger's)?
Hi. I have an autism spectrum disorder. Please suggestwho should I could talk to regarding this.
How are autism and schizophrenia different?
How are being awkward or having asperger's different?
How are mental retardation and autism different?
How broad a range are the autism spectrum disorders? How many people are now in that group?
How can an adult get a diagnosis for autism spectrum ?
How can having autism / aspergers affect your day to day life?
How can youth autism spectrum disorder relate to growth and development?
How can an adult get a diagnosis for autism spectrum?
How can you deal with autism?
How common are the "common" behavioral characteristics of autism?
How common is high functioning autism in the us?
How could a 4 year old with autism be different to a 4 year old without?
How do adhd, autism & asperger's syndrome differ?
How do anxiety and depression for autistic child differ?
How do autisum and autisum spectrum disorder differ?
How do high functioning autism and aspergers differ?
How do I find what's the difference between ADHD and autism?
How do I interpreting autism spectrum quotient score?
How do I know exactly what is autism?
How do I know exactly what is stimming (asperger's)?
How effective is sensory processing for treating autism?
How is autism classified into different levels?
How is someone's daily life affected by autism?
How often are autism spectrum disorders (e.g., Asperger's syndrome) undiagnosed until adulthood? How is such a diagnosis made?

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(Mass Appeal) – If you’re looking for a delicious meal to make for a dinner party with family or friends, this cheddar beer macaroni & cheese will impress! Jessie-Sierra Ross, Creator of the “Straight to the Hips, Baby” blog joins us with her recipe.
Cheddar Beer Macaroni & Cheese (with Cauliflower!)
Makes 8 servings
2 cups of large shell pasta (I used Barilla large shells this time)
1 1/2 cups cauliflower florets
6 ounces of yellow cheddar cheese, shredded
4 ounces of Monterey jack cheese, shredded
2 ounces aged parmesan, finely shredded
1 cup of whole or 2% milk
1 cup of amber ale
1/2 cup unseasoned panko breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
pinch ground cayenne pepper
generous pinch kosher salt
Preheat your oven to 375F, and butter a medium sized baking dish.
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to boil and cook the pasta 2 minutes under what the box directions advise.
While the pasta water is heating, place a medium sized pot with two inches of water to boil over high heat.
Wash and trim the cauliflower into small florets.
Once the medium pot of water has come to a boil, drop the cauliflower in and cook until tender (not mushy!), about 8-10 minutes. Drain and put aside.
Shred your cheeses and reserve.
In a large Dutch oven or saucepan, melt 2 tablespoons of butter on medium high heat, until frothy. Add the flour and stir with a whisk or wooden spoon constantly. Cook until the paste turns an almost nut-brown. This is your roux. (if you don’t get the right color, the flour will taste uncooked!).
Once the roux is cooked, immediately add in the milk and beer.
Continue stirring and cook for 3-5 minutes. The mix will thicken slightly.
Add in the spices.
Take the pan off the heat and stir in the cheeses. Continue to stir until smooth. Adjust salt and pepper to taste.
Combine the cooked pasta and cauliflower with the cheddar beer sauce.
Pour the macaroni and cheese into the prepared baking dish and sprinkle the panko breadcrumbs over the top evenly.
Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes, until bubbly. I like to finish it under the broiler for a minute or two, to give it a bit more color and crunch on top. Be careful not to burn the breadcrumbs!

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Flextronics and Hon Hai are going after the segment's higher profit margins, putting more pressure on Taiwanese DSC contract manufacturers
Recent aggressive moves by electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers will step up competition in the digital still camera (DSC) manufacturing industry, with Taiwanese contract makers to come under more pressure, market watchers said.
"Manufacturing digital cameras is a growing industry with higher margins, and EMS players want to have a share," said Ken Yu, an analyst with SinoPac Securities Corp.
Worldwide DSC shipments are forecast to hit 95.3 million units this year and 102.3 million next year, up from 87.4 million last year, with momentum seen from the Asia-Pacific region and emerging markets, according to Taipei-based Market Intelligence Center.
Margins for DSC production can easily exceed 10 percent, compared with 5 percent to 6 percent for computer production, Yu said.
Last Tuesday, Singapore-based Flextronics International Ltd, the world's largest EMS firm, announced that it would acquire Eastman Kodak Co's DSC manufacturing division and development center for US$35 million.
Kodak will continue marketing digital cameras under its own brand but production will be outsourced to Flextronics.
Flextronics' move comes on the heels of an announcement by smaller rival Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, which said on June 20 that it would acquire Taiwan's top DSC maker Premier Image Technology Corp through a share swap.
"We believe it is structurally negative to DSC manufacturers because competition will intensify with the entrance of Flextronics, which previously produced small volumes of digital cameras for Casio Computer Co," Macquarie Equities said in a report dated last Thursday.
Given their strong manufacturing background, cost leadership and scale, the world's top two EMS firms will likely boost rivalry among DSC manufacturers like Sanyo Electric Co, Asia Optical Co, Ability Enterprise Co, Altek Corp and add to the decline in margins, Macquarie said.
Premier Image, Asia Optical, Ability and Altek are the nation's first-tier DSC contract makers.
Flextronics' move should be particularly negative to Kodak's current suppliers, such as Altek and Asia Optical, over the long term, the Australian brokerage firm said.
Kodak's orders account for more than 50 percent of Altek's DSC shipments, and 10 percent to 20 percent of Asia Optical's, it said.
"With Flextronics in the picture now, it could also potentially limit planned market share gains by Hon Hai," Macquarie said.
But this does not mean the end for contract makers, Yu said.
"Compared with EMS players, manufacturers such as Asia Optical have mastered technologies for producing camera chips and optical camera lenses, and they also have advantages in camera design," he said.
These manufacturers have good long-term relationships with major Japanese clients such as Casio, Sony Corp, Canon Inc and Nikon Corp, and this is an area where EMS firms might need some time to catch up, Yu said.


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“I used to sit outside on the front doorstep while your father screamed in his crib,” my grandmother told me. “Every day I sat out there, or I sat on the couch, covering my ears and eating chocolates. Later, when he stopped crying or I could stand it, I would go inside and throw everything up. I never wanted to be a mother. I didn’t even want to marry your grandfather, but my family wanted me to because he had money. I didn’t think I had a choice.”
I was twenty years old, and coming out of a post-operative morphine stupor to the sound of my grandmother’s voice. I had just had my right ovary removed. A grapefruit-sized cyst had taken over, twisted and cut the circulation off. The ovary was dead. Not knowing that I was the keeper of family memory, my grandmother poured her heart out thinking I would forget everything the next day.
It would be convenient to say that this moment with my grandmother was the moment I decided not to have children. It would be convenient to say that I knew, without a shadow of doubt, that between my broken reproduction system and my dubious parenting lineage, I never wanted to feel the kind of regret that makes you confess you were a lousy parent at your granddaughter’s bedside. It would be more than a decade before I put all the pieces together. It was a conversation that was a little hard to absorb.
Eighteen years later, my husband and I were closing a loan to refinance our house. We took our seats across the table from a very nice woman who walked us through the gazillion documents we had to sign. The title officer—a woman about my age—began, as most people do, by exchanging pleasantries:
“How long have you been married?”
“Eight years,” we answered in unison.
“No,” we replied, and I prepared myself for the assumption I knew she was going to make. She obliged:
“No kids yet, right?”
“No, no kids ever.”
This statement is nearly always greeted with silence, a puzzled look, then questions. Bank tellers, cab drivers, house painters, neighbors, acquaintances, colleagues always feel they have the right to ask “why.” Deciding whether to have kids or not is a deeply personal process. It wasn’t an easy decision for us to land on. We thought for years about how beautiful our own would be—a mixture of Chinese, Mexican, German and Jewish. We pictured ourselves taking turns with the feedings, carpooling for school and music lessons. I could hear the laughter of children running away from my husband as he pretended to be a monster. I could feel the delicious chaos of the large family that I grew up in. It didn’t matter to us whether we had our own or adopted—we were in love with the idea. But one day, before we were even engaged, Steve said something about the point of marriage being to have kids. That stopped me short. I didn’t want someone to make a lifetime commitment to me just for my ability to be a mother. I wanted to be wanted for me. “If you can’t see us together without kids,” I found myself saying to him, “then I’m not sure we have a strong enough relationship to begin a family at all.” I gave him some time to think while I cried my eyes out, wondering if he would leave me for someone who was more certain about children. But he didn’t. We got married less than a year later.
After the honeymoon, after settling into our first home and into couplehood, we talked about starting a family. We did a hard examination of lost vacations, lost time together, changing our careers to accommodate parenthood, the lost space to continue building our relationship, and a limited ability to improve ourselves. After years of discussion we opted to keep it simple.
The pressure to have children is so pervasive that having them just feels like something you do—you’re born, you grow up, you get married, you have kids, your kids have kids, you have lots of reunions, and eventually you die. Often, we act first and think later. I’ve heard it so many times, “In my day, we didn’t think about it. We just had them, and they’re there, so you love them,” said a colleague who is a grandmother. “Just do it. That’s what I told my daughter,” she continued. “Find your husband, lie down and get busy. You’ll manage somehow. Everybody does.”
In the spring of 2002, Sylvia Hewlett was on every talk show and evening news magazine touting the results of her study showing that women like me—late 30s, career-oriented, no children—were miserable, with an unbearable yearning for what we couldn’t have. We had waited too long, assuming we would be able to have children after the career was settled, only to be hit with the inescapable fact that our eggs were old, our uteruses weren’t so friendly to fetuses anymore, we would go broke trying to get pregnant, and in the end suffer total disappointment. She sent a wave of panic through an entire generation of women, that, I fear, is pushing them into having kids before they know they are ready—the way my grandmother had kids because she thought she was supposed to. Yes, even highly educated women do this.
Sylvia Hewlett wasn’t the first woman I heard deliver the warning about waiting too long to have children. When I interviewed for a job at thirty, the female CEO put the pressure on. A wise and wonderful role model who is generous with relationship advice, she said to me, “I hear you’re getting married soon. I just want you to know that if you want to start a family right away, don’t worry about it. We can accommodate anything. And don’t wait too long because while the feminists say it’s ok to wait, what they don’t tell you is that the eggs don’t age well.”
Are we supposed to have kids just because we can? Gehlek Rimpoche, a lama in his 60s who grew up in, as he calls it, “the good old Shangri-La Tibet” (you can’t get more old-fashioned than that), said to me once, “It is not your God-given duty to bring children into the world just because you are a woman. You have a choice.” A monk or a nun isn’t, I don’t think, judged for their decision not to have children. I don’t choose to live a celibate life, but I do choose to try to commit almost as deeply to how I’m living the life I now lead. I’m trying to become a wiser and kinder person, and I’m trying to continue to publish books that people tell me are helping them. I might turn up nothing on my adventure, leaving my husband childless and my parents without grandchildren. On the other hand, there are worse things to regret—like having children that grow up feeling like hell because mom is absorbed in her career and they’re feeling neglected. Is there something inherently wrong with choosing career over children? Men make that choice all the time. You can see it in the proportion of those that stay at home.
The day we closed the re-fi on our house, I told the title officer that I was writing a piece on the decision not to have kids. She stopped toeing the party line and opened up. “Good for you,” she said. “Don’t do it. If I had it to do over again, I would not have them. I would have made very different decisions for myself if I hadn’t had children. I did it because I thought I was supposed to. The only role model I had was my mother. She got married young and had kids, so did my grandmother and every other woman around me. There’s no question that my life has been drastically limited, and I’m not happy about it. I couldn’t complete my education, and I’m not able to get the kind of work I think I would find fulfilling. And when I’m not happy in my life I have a hard time being a good mother to my kids.” She wasn’t the only person to tell me this. Since I started writing this piece, several parents—women and men—have whispered to us that they were jealous of the decision we made. Just fyi, a study for a book called He Works, She Works, by Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers found that the most satisfied people were working mothers.
If I hadn’t had surgery on my ovaries twice, if my plumbing hadn’t been interfered with, if my grandmother hadn’t told me the truth about her life as a mother, I might now be speaking to you as a harried mother, or maybe I wouldn’t be writing at all because I might have put my career, which has me commuting between San Francisco and New York, aside.
Many younger women have confided to me recently that they don’t want children. And many don’t feel they can resist the pressure to have them. I don’t blame them. There’s a lot at stake. When a thirty-year-old woman I know told her fiancé that she didn’t want kids, he moved out. She wanted to pursue martial arts and didn’t feel she could do that to the degree she knew was necessary to succeed and be a good mother at the same time. She knew she was risking losing the man she loved, but she chose to pursue the dream that would make her happy instead of the one that would make everyone else but her happy.
And so I was disturbed by the article in today’s New York Times (September 20, 2005), “Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood,” and it wasn’t the first time. I’ve been seeing articles in Barnard Magazine for years by young women who want to conquer the world until they have kids. And that’s great, except that I simply don’t believe that for most of these young women any of this is a conscious choice. According to Louann Brizendine, MD, the psychiatrist who founded UCSF’s Mood and Hormone Clinic, at college age, the brain’s reality is about having children. There are circuits in place, forged in utero and boosted by estrogen, that compel this choice. Peter Salovey, dean of Yale College is quoted in the article saying, “What does concern me, is that so few students seem to be able to think outside the box; so few students seem to be able to imagine a life for themselves that isn’t constructed along traditional gender roles.” What I’ve learned from Dr. Brizendine is that it takes a tremendous amount of awareness to buck both biology and society. I applaud those who decide to have children. I only wish for them that it’s a real decision. I don’t want to see anyone else end up like my grandmother.

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Altech Chemicals Limited has announced that two Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) have been executed by Altech Industries Germany GmbH (AIG) and Altech, with two European based suppliers of lithium-ion battery grade anode materials. The MoUs set out the basis for the parties to work together for the possible future supply of materials to a battery material plant that would be constructed by AIG in Saxony, Germany and which is currently the subject of a preliminary feasibility study (PFS).
For graphite, AIG and Altech have executed a MoU with SGL Carbon GmbH (SGL), one of the leading producers of graphite in Europe. SGL Carbon is supporting Altech’s development of high purity alumina coated graphite material targeted for use by the lithium-ion battery industry (see ASX Announcement dated 29 April 2021). In addition, the non-binding MoU details the potential future relationship whereby SGL would supply uncoated synthetic graphite anode material to an AIG battery materials plant in Saxony, Germany.
The indicative, non-binding volumes and prices that are prescribed in the MoU will be adopted in the AIG PFS financial model. SGL Carbon is a world leader in the development and production of carbon-based solutions and reported sales of 919 million Euros in 2020. Only SGL supplied graphite hasbeen used by Altech in test work conducted at its Perth research and development laboratory.
For silicon, AIG and Altech have executed an MoU with Ferroglobe Innovation S.L. (Ferroglobe), a leading producer of high purity metallurgical silicon in Europe. The non-binding MoU details the relationship whereby Ferroglobe would supply silicon anode material to an AIG battery materials plant in Saxony, Germany. Ferroglobe is a leading producer of silicon metal with a proven ability to create new solutions and applications using state-of-the-art technology to drive innovation. Ferroglobe has the ability to produce high purity silicon, and is targeting the development of tailor-made silicon powders for use in the anode of lithium-
ion batteries. Only silicon supplied by Ferroglobe has been used by Altech in test work conducted at its Perth research and development laboratory.
The importance of environmental considerations has previously been highlighted as a key consideration in the design of AIG’s proposed battery materials coating plant (refer to ASX Announcement on 18 November 2021). The MoU executed with SGL and Ferroglobe not only establish the basis for the possible future supply of high-quality feedstocks suitable for the battery materials coating process, but also align with the objective to minimise the proposed plant’s carbon footprint and overall environmental impact.
The supply of high quality graphite and silicon from these leading European based materials suppliers would also minimise transport emissions attributed to feedstock shipments, plus their respective production facilities have the potential to utilise Europe’s extensive green electricity market. Importantly, these suppliers, will like AIG, will be governed by the same stringent European Union (EU) environmental regulations. Both companies have a strong corporate focus on sustainability and reducing the environmental impact of their operations. Finally, partnering with EU based feedstock suppliers is expected to reduce any potential future supply chain risks when compared to non-European suppliers.

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The Supreme Court’s expected overturning of Roe v. Wade has captured all the news attention, but the Court could well lay the groundwork for even larger changes in American governance before it adjourns for the term — and trigger a state-by-state battle for the new shape of laws and American civic life.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, activists on both sides are already girding for full-force political battles over state abortion access, possibly followed by similar struggles over contraception, and even same-sex marriage.
Beyond its decision on abortion, however, the Court is expected to rule in no fewer than three cases this month that could open up many more fronts for this state-by-state conflict, by severely limiting federal agencies’ authority to promulgate regulations.
They all sound dry, but their implications could be sweeping. The first two cases involve Medicare payments: Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation and American Hospital Association v. Becerra. The third case is about the Clean Air Act: West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency.
On the surface, they address typical Supreme Court arcana. One of the Medicare cases involves parsing a paragraph of Medicare law that Justice Stephen Breyer, in oral argument last November, admitted he had to read “two or three times” to understand. The West Virginia case asks whether paragraph 7411(d) of the Clean Air Act applies only to actions that power plants control at their facilities, or beyond those physical boundaries.
But there’s a reason these cases are being left to the end of the term — typically when the Court drops its most newsworthy decisions. They all have a bearing on one of the basic responsibilities of the government in Washington: How much latitude federal agencies have to interpret, and then enforce, the laws that Congress passes.
Whenever the Supreme Court undercuts an issue at the national level, as it did by weakening voting rights law in 2013, the warfare shifts to the states. If the Court significantly rolls this federal authority back — and there are signals it will — the implications could start to shift the entire locus of American power, and the country will be dealing with the fallout for years.
A great deal of Washington’s power rests on a fact you don’t learn in civics textbooks: When Congress passes new laws, those laws are filled with instructions that can be vague, or debatable, or even self-contradictory. Laws need to be reapplied to new circumstances over time.
Who gets to do that? For decades, courts have generally allowed federal agencies to make those calls — a policy made explicit in the 1984 Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council decision. That case also involved the Clean Air Act, with the ambiguous phrase at issue being “stationary sources” of air pollution. The Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter had interpreted that expansively; when Ronald Reagan’s administration later redefined the term more narrowly, environmental advocates asked the courts to not let them.
Under the reasoning laid out in the Chevron decision, courts should generally defer to federal agencies — in that instance, Reagan’s Environmental Protection Agency — when determining if a regulation is warranted under that agency’s statutory authority. Unless the answer is clearly no, courts should assume that the agency knows its business better than what conservatives used to call “unelected activist judges.” Since then, this principle has become known as the Chevron standard, or “Chevron deference."
Increasingly, however, SCOTUS and lower courts have been taking a different view — as Trump-appointed judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle did when she overturned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s travel mask mandate last month. They, and a chorus of conservative advocates, say that judges should decide, not defer. So Mizelle, for example, decided that mask mandates do not “prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases,” as the surgeon general is authorized to do under the 1944 Public Health Service Act.
Commentators on both left and right have, at various times, found fault with the Chevron standard — often depending on whether it’s a Democratic or Republican administration putting out the regulations. (Or, whether federal courts are filled with Democratic- or Republican-appointed judges.) The original Chevron case had liberals demanding judicial precedence over Reagan’s agencies. Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia was a prominent advocate of Chevron deference.
But in recent years, conservatives have made the demise of Chevron deference a priority, as a way of limiting what they see as the runaway growth of the regulatory state.
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito have all expressed opposition to Chevron in various ways, and many court observers believe that the conservative majority will soon overturn, or at least redefine, that precedent.
Medicare reimbursements and a particular EPA rule are just the tip of a mountainous quantity of federal regulations, old and new, that could be challenged if, as many expect, the Court uses those cases to announce the death of Chevron deference.
If the rulings in these three cases definitively go their way, there’s good reason to believe that businesses and conservative activist organizations will see it as a door flung wide open — an opportunity to chase their particular regulatory bugbears, seeking out right-wing judges on district courts, trying to chip away at the scope of federal agencies’ work.
Craig Green, professor of law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, expects that their potential targets could include a whole host of legal protections: on workers rights, consumer protections, environment, health care and much more. Some of those challenges are in courts already; others are just waiting for a green light in the form of a Supreme Court change to Chevron.
This isn’t just an obscure point of administrative law: A study last year found that 99 percent of major federal laws include delegation of rule-making to agencies, leading Amherst College political science professor Austin Sarat to warn recently that reducing those agencies’ ability to interpret statutes is “a frontal assault on the federal government’s ability to promote the health, safety and welfare of citizens.”
Not all of those challenges will be successful. But, Green says, many of those that are will remove federal safety nets, leaving it up to individual states to debate their own way forward. That already happens on greenhouse emissions, gun laws, minimum wage and, of course, Covid mitigation. That could soon extend to almost any activity that, until now, has been handled uniformly by the federal government. Prepare for death of civility by a thousand cuts.
Green puts it bluntly: “Defeating Chevron weakens the federal government.” And as states respond differently, Green says, “it produces a schism among different states.”
Americans have seen these regulatory schisms in force during the pandemic, as different jurisdictions issued different emergency orders, and practices varied across every state line — and governors were protested as either tyrants or deathmongers accordingly.
In fact, the Supreme Court struck down two pandemic-related rules without directly upending Chevron: ruling that OSHA could not implement a “vaccine or test” mandate for large employers; and that the CDC could not extend its eviction moratorium.
Those decisions, both overruling federal agencies, used another avenue to skirt Chevron deference — part of a trend toward “antideference,” argues Nathan Richardson, professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. They relied on “major questions doctrine,” which allows judges to, essentially, scrap agencies’ ability to regulate at all without explicit Congressional instruction when the issue is of great economic or political interest.
Great interest being in the eye of the beholder, this doctrine could allow judges — any federal judges, not just those on the Supreme Court — to bypass Chevron pretty much any time they dislike a regulation.
“Everything from food and drug standards to climate change is getting greater scrutiny from the Court,” Richardson says. “The entire OSHA office is arguably unconstitutional” if you take the doctrine far enough, he says.
On that front, Richardson has his eye particularly on West Virginia v. EPA: In seeking to strike down Affordable Clean Energy standards, West Virginia is explicitly making a major questions doctrine argument. It’s an opportunity for the Court to define just how far to take it.
Much of this looming conflict could be avoided if Congress was capable of passing legislation to better define what it wants agencies to do, and how. Or, passing laws at all.
For example, after the death of 80 people and wounding of hundreds more in the 2017 Las Vegas massacre, Congress could have banned “bump stocks,” which allow for more rapid firing of semi-automatic rifles. It did not. That led to debates in state legislatures from coast to coast, with nearly a dozen states adopting bump-stock bans, but others failing to do so.
Those state-by-state clashes ended when the Trump administration, through the ATF, banned bump stocks through regulation.
Two challenges to that federal bump-stock ban have now been appealed to the Supreme Court, both arguing that the ATF does not have the authority to issue that regulation. If the ban is overturned, the fight will then move right back to state houses nationwide.
Advocates will seek bump-stock bans in the 39 states that still lack them, while gun rights groups will seek repeal of bans now in place. Already, Florida’s ban is being challenged in state court.
The same could happen with the Biden administration’s recently announced “ghost gun” ban. And gun control is just one example of the current state of congressional inaction, which ranges from minimum wage to climate change.
In that atmosphere, it largely falls to agencies to adapt federal regulations to a fast-changing world. And adoption of an “antideference” standard in courts would add a significant choke point hampering federal action — just as the Supreme Court has demonstrated Congress’s inability to settle the abortion or voting rights issues with national laws.
If Roe goes down, and Chevron gets rolled back, let the fighting begin.

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Masters of the Bench
Sir Franklin Berman KCMG KC
Full Title: Sir Franklin Berman KCMG KCCategory: Ordinary Bencher
Bench Call Date: 12.5.1998
Call Date: 22.11.1966
Sir Franklin Berman joined HM Diplomatic Service in 1965 and was Legal Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 1991-99. For the past 16 years he has been in practice in Essex Court Chambers specialising in international arbitration and advisory work in international law. He is Visiting Professor of International Law at Oxford and the University of Cape Town. His 45-year career in international law and diplomacy has spanned a wide and varied field. Sir Frank has served as Judge ad hoc on the International Court of Justice and was appointed by the British Government in 2004 to the list of Arbitrators under the Washington Convention (ICSID). He is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and currently chairs the Claims Committee of the Austrian General Settlement Fund for Victims of Nazi persecution. In 2006 the Republic of Austria awarded him the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star and in 2014 the Kingdom of Cambodia the Grand Cross of the Royal Order.

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The release of former FBI Director Jim Comey’s prepared text for his upcoming congressional testimony has created a moment of crisis for Republicans and conservatives. And many are failing the challenge. Their reactions are revealing a profound dishonesty that far exceeds the norms of usual political spin, and are demonstrating that the Trumpified quarters of the GOP and the conservative movement are intellectually bankrupt and devoid of principle. These partisans now stand naked, and it sure ain’t pretty. It’s also a bad sign for the health of our constitutional democracy.
Comey’s statement is a troubling, just-the-facts account of his interactions with President Donald Trump. By now, everyone knows the big picture: Trump, in this recounting, demanded an oath of fealty from the supposedly independent FBI director, pressed him to “lift the cloud” cast over the Trump White House by the ongoing Russia investigation, and leaned on Comey to quash an FBI investigation into Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser. Comey’s statement also notes that he did tell Trump several times that the president himself was not under investigation (at least not at the time of these conversations).
Comey’s account is a damning indictment of the president. It depicts a stark abuse of power, as Trump tried to recruit the FBI chief as a member of his political crew and pushed him to smother the probe of a close associate. It also contradicts Trump’s public statement that he did not pressure Comey to let Flynn off the hook. (Yes, according to Comey, Trump lied.) Here we have a president prevaricating and perverting justice, not defending the Constitution. Some legal observers have declared this evidence of obstruction of justice—especially when paired with Trump’s explanation that he pink-slipped Comey in part because of the “Russia thing” (not to mention his Oval Office statements to Russian officials that his firing of Comey eased pressure on him from the FBI’s investigation).
So how are Republicans and conservatives who support the president contending with this disturbing portrait of Trump? Some have declared victory or insisted there’s nothing worrisome in this picture.
Trump’s recently hired private attorney Marc Kasowitz led the way. He declared, “The President is pleased that Mr. Comey has finally publicly confirmed his private reports that that the President was not under investigation in any Russia probe. The President feels completely and totally vindicated. He is eager to continue to move forward with his agenda.”
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 7, 2017
The Republican National Committee took the same line. Ronna McDaniel, the party’s chairwoman, contended, “President Trump was right. Director Comey’s statement reconfirmed what the president has been saying all along—he was never under investigation.” And with a snarky tweet, the RNC simultaneously insisted there was no substance in the Comey statement.
Trying to find something of substance in Comey’s opening statement like pic.twitter.com/igLC4JPREg
— GOP (@GOP) June 7, 2017
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat took a similar tact and ho-hummed the whole thing, asserting there were no “bombshells” in the prepared testimony.
Lots of great atmospheric details but no new bombshells here.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) June 7, 2017
Douthat was on the same page as the gang at Breitbart, which declared Comey testimony a “nothing burger,” while highlighting the portion in which Comey noted he had told Trump that Trump was not personally under scrutiny.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)—the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating possible Trump-Russia ties—said, “I don’t think it’s wrong to ask for loyalty of anyone inside an administration. I don’t think of what I’ve read there’s anything of wrongdoing.” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie—once a member of Trump’s inner circle—absurdly brushed aside Comey’s statement by remarking that Trump’s discussions with the G-man were just “normal New York City” conversations. Sen. James Langford (R-Okla.) also tried to wave aside this latest controversy as merely a matter of Trump’s rhetorical style, telling Fox News, “This reads like the president talks. It sounds like a guy who is not a Washington guy.” Christie and Lankford were engaging in variants of Trump’s “locker-room” defense for the grab-them-by-the-pussy video.
Meanwhile, most Republican leaders—including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—initially remained mute. On Wednesday night, Ryan said on MSNBC that there was nothing new in Comey’s statement, but he acknowledged that it was inappropriate for Trump to have asked for Comey’s loyalty.
On the right, the urge to make all this go away is so strong that reality must be insulted. A former FBI director—publicly and under oath—accusing a president of trying to halt an FBI investigation is itself a bombshell. (Imagine what Republicans would have done if an FBI chief had declared that President Barack Obama tried to muscle him to protect a close associate.) Trump is not vindicated. He stands accused by a credible witness. Comey disclosing that he thrice told Trump that he was not a direct target of the FBI’s Russia investigation does not mitigate this fact. As Comey noted, during one of his conversations with Trump, the president raised the possibility that “satellite” associates of his might have engaged in wrongdoing. (And if Republicans and Trump’s defenders are going to take Comey at his word when he says he told Trump he was not personally under investigation, they must accept Comey’s claim that Trump tried to subvert the Flynn investigation.)
It is especially concerning that the man in charge of the Senate’s Russia investigation, which has been regarded as the most credible effort on Capitol Hill probing the scandal, sees no “wrongdoing” in Trump’s attempt to stifle an FBI probe.
In any world not governed by the need to defend Trump at all costs, the Comey statement would be devastating in the eyes of all. Comey’s tale calls into question the president’s understanding and allegiance to the rule of law. It casts Trump as a liar and a scoundrel who engaged in action that might even be illegal. Republicans and Trump defenders cannot accept the true meanings of this text. To do so would be to acknowledge too much. They have to distort reality and embrace dishonesty to deny the statement’s significance and its newsworthiness, to dismiss it as nothing, or to cherry-pick the few lines that partially support Trump’s previous assertions. Consequently, they have to bare their worst to protect their president. Trump has forced them into an ugly act of self-abuse that cheapens them and abets a dangerous erosion of constitutional democracy.


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With international brands like Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry dominating the ice-cream market, comes along our very own home-grown talents making local ice-cream. Island Creamery is the founder and at the forefront of such local ice cream makers.
It has been some time since my first visit to Island Creamery, so i paid a revisit to the ice-cream parlor with a friend. Single scoop ice cream is $2.50, while double scoop is $4, the ice cream here is much cheaper than Daily scoop, and Haato.
Not to mention Ben & Jerry who single scoop alone is already $4.90. But then again you can’t really compare it this way since they are in a different league with different playing fields.
The dining in area is quite small, with some seats on the outside, thus Island Creamery is always full most of the time, too many ice cream lovers, too little seats.
Besides dining in, the 500ml tub is yours to bring home at $8.
The many happy faces at Island Creamery
Double Scoop Apple crumble, hazelnut ($4)
Having tried Hazelnut the last time round, i can never stop myself from ordering it again. Good old nutella! Apple crumble is suprisingly good, the apple crumbs are evident on the ice cream, quite an unique taste.
The chendol ice cream wasn’t to our liking, for this one i guess we still prefer drinking chendol than eating chendol ice cream.
We like the Pulau Hitam too! Smooth yet not too creamery.
Total bill is $8 for 4 scoops of ice cream. I like island creamery’s ice cream for their unique flavours, and i do believe that we should give local ice cream makers a thumbs up for their willingness to try and experience with new flavours which others might think is impossible for ice creams.
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Before the 1960s almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) person was illegal. New York City laws against homosexual activities were particularly harsh. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGBT civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.
Vine Creek Ranch at Death Valley National Park. Steady drought and record summer heat make Death Valley a land of extremes. Towering peaks are frosted with winter snow. Rare rainstorms bring vast fields of wildflowers. Lush oases harbor tiny fish and refuge for wildlife and humans. Despite its morbid name, a great diversity of life survives in Death Valley.
Located 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii, the National Park of American Samoa is the most remote unit of the National Park System and the U.S. National Park south of the Equator. The Park spreads across three islands, 9,500 acres of tropical rainforest, and 4,000 acres of ocean, including coral reefs. While remote, the islands of American Samoa, true to the meaning of the word Samoa (Islands of Sacred Earth), are welcoming and offer beautiful landscapes and centuries of culture and history.
Seasoned backpacker and adventurer Yang Lu earned the grand prize in the 2015 Share the Experience photo contest with this image of a sunburst captured at sunrise in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah. Yang has made the outdoors part of his daily life and finds deep connection to the land through his lens.
“My photography is not just for recreation, it is to inspire people to explore these areas." -- Yang Lu
Photo by Yang Lu (www.sharetheexperience.org).
Secretary Salazar to Celebrate New Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument
National Monuments Will Generate Tourism and Economic Benefits for Local Economies, Honor America's Diverse History, Conserve Key Landscapes
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following President Obama's designation of five new national monuments yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will travel to each of the sites over the coming days to celebrate with local officials and community stakeholders who have worked to secure recognition for these national crown jewels.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 27, Secretary Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis will join local officials and stakeholders to celebrate the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
The monument commemorates the life of the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who was responsible for helping enslaved people escape from bondage to freedom. The event is open press and media are encouraged to RSVP to Jessica Kershaw (firstname.lastname@example.org) by Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at 5:30 PM.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis
Patricia Ross Hawkins, Tubman descendant
Bob Stanton, senior advisor to the Secretary and former National Park Service Director
Local officials and community stakeholders
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument Celebration
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
10:30 a.m. EDT (guest check-in)
11:00 a.m. EDT (ceremony)
11:45 a.m. EDT (media availability)
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center
2145 Key Wallace Drive Cambridge, MD 21613
Note: Parking is not available at the Visitor Center. Parking and shuttle service will be provided from the Blackwater maintenance compound located at:
2430 Key Wallace Drive Cambridge, MD 21613
The event is open press and media are encouraged to RSVP to Jessica Kershaw (email@example.com) by Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at 5:30 PM.

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Eight Selection Criteria for Actuator Components
When deciding between fluid-driven and electromechanical linear actuators, close consideration of long-term benefits to the intended end user can help original equipment manufacturer (OEM) system designers maximize both product value and return on investment (ROI).
Fluid-driven actuators translate electric energy motion through a column of air, gas, oil or other media. While the motion they provide is simpler than with other type actuators, the infrastructure required to support them is not. Hydraulic actuators require an external system of pumps and valves; Pneumatic actuators require complex air delivery systems. For both, stroke length is defined by a mechanical hard stop.Read More


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According to Canal Tech, thousands of Brazilian internet users who downloaded movies via torrent files were the subject of extrajudicial charges of between 3,000 and 5,000 reais in October.
The accounts refer to downloads of “ Hellboy, ” “ Rambo: Until the End ” and “ Invasion to the Secret Service, ” all released in 2019.
Apparently, those responsible for copyright of productions are asking for compensation for losses caused by the practice of piracy.
Representatives of the studios of each film were able to get in touch with Internet users through their phone companies, who were forced to share registration information from clients involved in the controversy.
The request was made in March this year and was pending in the São Paulo Court of Justice until September, when Claro granted the data to avoid daily fines amounting to R 10,000. $ per day.
In an interview with the portal, one of the customers (who did not have his identity revealed) said he did not know what had happened because he uses a P2P connection, a service shared with others. people.
“I never thought that would happen to me. My concern was to resolve the case because the account was in my mom’s name, but I know it wasn’t her because I don’t remember doing any of those downloads and using the P2P network. I was also wondering how they had access to all of our information when they sent the notification. “
The user screening agency also provides services to the US producer Millenium Media, which owns the copyrights of the films mentioned through subsidiaries called Fallen Productions, HB Productions and Rambo V Productions.
In addition to these films, downloads of other titles are also being analyzed, such as “Dallas Shopping Club”, “Colossal”, “Privacy Invasion”, “Explosive Duo”, among several more recent releases.
On the other hand, experts from the Pirate Party of Brazil have claimed that profiteers known as copyright trolls also benefit from false legal notices involving copyright in order to make a profit.
In any case, it is necessary to research and contact the agency that issued the notifications so as not to suffer from attacks by hackers and profiteers.
Keeping in mind that downloading films, series and books is not considered a crime in the Brazilian penal code if the intention is individual consumption.
But it is considered a crime to profit from the provision of any type of work without the permission of the owners, and the penalty can range from three months to one year in prison.
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Episode 215: The Zelig of Hacking Back
Our interview is with Nick Schmidle, staff writer for the New Yorker. His report on cybersecurity work that goes to the edge of the law and beyond turns up some previously unreported material, including the tale of Shawn Carpenter, a cybersecurity researcher with a talent for showing up in all the best hackback stories.
In the news, Jamil Jaffer reports on domain fronting, a weird form of protection for people hiding the site they’re connecting to behind some bland Google or AWS site. Some of those people are dissidents in authoritarian lands; many are authoritarian governments hacking secrets out of corporate networks. In any event, domain fronting is disappearing before it had even made an impression on the public’s mind. I say good riddance, bolstered in my opinion by the wailing of professional privacy groups that, do I have to remind you?, don’t care about your security at all.
The Supreme Court takes a case of great interest to social media and other tech firms who attract class actions. Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov explains the law and the likely outcome. I mostly quibble about how to pronounce “cy pres.”
Move fast and break things probably isn’t the best motto if the thing you’re likely to break is, um, you. Megan Reiss talks about the death of Aaron Traywick, and the risks of bringing the hacking ethic to genetic engineering.
Europol and a host of allies were bragging last week about taking down ISIS’s online recruiting and propaganda infrastructure. But this week they’ve had to admit that ISIS is back on line. Jamil and I talk about what lessons can be drawn from cyber-whac-a-molery.
For Chinese phone makers, it never rains but it pours. Fresh off a ban on Chinese phones from US military retail stores, there may be even more pain in the works for ZTE and other Chinese mobile infrastructure providers.
Finally, Megan Reiss and I dig deep into Rep. Ruppersberger’s thoughtful take on cybersecurity, information sharing and DHS.
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Are We One Step Closer To Student Loan Forgiveness In New York?
This dreadful Pandemic has drastically changed various aspects of everyday life. People now interact with others differently, traditional norms have been throw out the window and more and more people are at odds. The Pandemic has also turned literally everything political.
Some argue that certain people are using restrictions, former lock downs and financial hardships brought on by COVID-19 to institute preferred policies or push political agendas. One example is the ongoing discussion over eviction moratoriums. The CDC issued the updated moratorium on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 preventing landlords from removing their tenants in "areas of substantial and high transmission." Dr. Rochelle Walensky of the CDC says,
Evictions of tenants for failure to make rent or housing payments could be detrimental to public health control measures to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Some argue that these moratoriums could inspire legislation or a push towards making similar policies permanent. Getting back to the Student Loan issue.
Some politicians and policy makers have been pushing for federal student loan forgiveness for several years. The most recent extension of paused payments is set to be the FINAL extension and will expire on January 31st, 2021, according to studentaid.gov. The extension was explained as follows,
The pause includes the following relief measures for eligible loans:
- a suspension of loan payments
- a 0% interest rate
- stopped collections on defaulted loans
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, senators discussed a new, bipartisan student loan bill that would make it easier for more student loan borrowers to get student loan cancellation in bankruptcy. However, the early focus of the hearing turned toward wide-scale student loan forgiveness.
While this discussion may not have been taken as seriously before the Pandemic, people are certainly talking about it now. People in Government. The debate will rage on between those who believe it's unfair to those who have paid back their student loans already or believe it will lead to higher costs for taxpayers and those who feel it is a necessary clean slate for those struggling to earn wages to pay the loans back. It is likely that New York would be one of the states eager to show support for some form of legislation to be written and passed. For now, no federal student loan payments are due until 2022.


Sony has unveiled the first look at the controller for the upcoming PS5, called ‘DualSense’. The reveal comes pretty unexpectedly as there was no buildup or any press event for the reveal.
It seems like after the PS5 deep dive by Mark Cerny, Sony took note of the mixed reception from fans. After all, the things that the fans are looking forward to the most are, well, the console and the games. In a blog post about the new controller, Sony revealed that this is indeed the final design of the controller being shipped to developers.
Like it or not, it is pretty surprising just how randomly Sony revealed this. The ‘DualSense’ controller looks extremely different, yet surprisingly familiar to the DualShock 4.
The most notable thing though of course is the new color scheme. All previous PlayStation controllers (called dualshocks) have been black in color, with the exception of the DualShock 1 for PS1. The DualSense however, looks much more exciting. It keeps the familiar blue of the PlayStation brand, and the white is kind of reminiscent of the Xbox One S controller.
With the new design, there are also some new functions coming to the controller. As explained in the blog post, these will be:
- Haptic Feedback
- Adaptive Triggers with L2 and R2 buttons
- A new ‘Create‘ button that replaces the DualShock 4’s ‘Share’ button
- Built-in Microphone Array
- USB-C Port for Charging
It also seems like Sony has added a permanent push-to-talk/mute button right above the microphone array port.
Sony’s PS5 console, alongside the new DualSense controller, will ship sometime in Holiday 2020.