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Grammy-winning EDM artist Skrillex to tour India
“We continue to bring the world’s greatest music legends that music aficionados in India have been waiting to experience. This time too devout dance music fans of Vh1 Supersonic in India are in for another unforgettable experience of a <g data-gr-id="23">life time</g> with Grammy award winner Skrillex,” Jaideep Singh, senior vice president and business head, Live Viacom18, said in a statement.
“We are sure that such pulsating experiences curated for Vh1 Supersonic will continue to captivate and mesmerise music lovers and ignite the collective passion for dance music in India,” he added.
Last year’s edition of Vh1 Supersonic featured names like The <g data-gr-id="21">Chainsmokers</g>, Major Lazer, Steve Aoki and Pretty Lights. Skrillex, whose real name is Sonny John Moore, has worked with renowned artists like Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, Deadmau5 and The Chemical Brothers.
In 2011, he was nominated for five Grammy Awards at the 54th Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist and won three: ‘Best Dance/Electronica Album’, ‘Best Dance Recording’ and ‘Best Remixed

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Poor Blood Sugar Control Worsens Depression
Researchers at the University of Michigan have determined that poor glycemic control in diabetics may be a risk factor of worsened depressive symptoms.
The study appearing in the current issue of the American Diabetes Association publication Diabetes Care followed 253 patients over six months who controlled their diabetes either through oral medication or insulin. The depressive symptoms were worse among patients who took insulin.
“Our findings suggest an opportunity for physicians to more carefully monitor these patients for intensified depressive symptoms, or perhaps to initiate treatment for depression,” says lead author James Aikens, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, associate professor in family medicine and assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School.
The team brought in participants twice over six months to take blood samples and tests and collected additional information by telephone two more times during the interim, which Aikens says makes the study that much more effective. It is considered one of the few longitudinal studies relating glycemic control to depression.
Previous research shows approximately 30 percent of those with diabetes exhibit elevated depressive symptoms, and about one-third of them meet psychiatric criteria for depression.
The group originally focused on racial differences in depressive symptoms, and whether depressive symptoms led to poor glycemic control or if poor glycemic control led to depressive symptoms.
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UPS and the teamsters
The recent International Brotherhood of Teamsters' (IBT) victory over United Parcel Service is part of a historic struggle to transform the American trade unions into instruments of class struggle. Back in 1934, socialists organized a powerful teamsters strike in the mid-west city of Minneapolis, a transpiration hub. Its overwhelming success was the first step in turning the Teamsters into a fighting, class-conscious union. When Jimmy Hoffa took over the Teamsters in the 1940s, he purged the union of the Minneapolis radicals while making alliances with organized crime. The retreat of the Teamsters was part of a general reactionary drift in the American labor movement that persisted until the 1960s.
Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), born in the mid 1970's, attempted to rid the union of Hoffa's bureaucrats and criminals. Without the TDU, Ron Carey could have never captured the Teamsters presidency in 1991. The socialists and progressives who started TDU played a significant role in returning the Teamsters to its militant roots and deserve enormous credit for the victory against UPS. Arrayed against the reform movement today is a powerful combination of the trucking industry, bureaucrats led by Jimmy Hoffa Jr., organized crime, and the American government. Washington has ordered new Teamsters elections that will pit Jimmy Hoffa Jr. against Ron Carey. When Hoffa Jr. says that he is trying to return the Teamsters to the traditions of his father, nobody should misunderstand his goal. He wants to turn the clock back to a period of bureaucracy, goon squads and theft.
In 1933, Farrell Dobbs had a job shoveling coal in Minneapolis where he met Grant Dunne, a truck driver, who was unloading a shipment of coal. Dunne invited him to an organizing meeting of Teamster Local 574. The union sought to organize coal-yard workers. Grant Dunne was the brother of Vincent Ray and Miles Dunne. The Communist Party had expelled the three Dunnes for backing Trotsky. Unlike many of the other early adherents to the Trotskyist movement, the brothers were not members of the intelligentsia. They were workers who had taken part in the International Workers Movement's struggles in the early part of the century. They hoped to build powerful industrial unions in the 1930s during the depths of the Great Depression. Such unions could play a role not only in defending the standard of living of working people, but serve as a battering ram against the capitalist system as well.
Dobbs was happy join an organizing drive for personal reasons at least. His pay was $18 for a sixty hour week and had recently learned that his boss would cut his wages to $16 for a forty hour week. While Dobbs was no socialist, he knew firsthand what injustice meant. So in the dead of winter, Local 274 struck just as a severe cold wave hit the city. The coal-yard bosses conceded as quickly as they did in the recent UPS strike and the union movement gained a feeling of power and self-confidence. The political and organizing skills of the Dunne brothers impressed Dobbs to such an extent that he decided to join the Trotskyist movement.
The next step in the Teamsters organizing drive in Minneapolis was to bring truck drivers into the union. On May 13, 1934, Local 274 voted to strike the trucking industry in Minneapolis. The union rented a large building where it set up offices, a garage, a field hospital and a commissary. Union carpenters and plumbers helped to set up the building and the Cook and Waiters Union organized 100 volunteers who served 4,000 to 5,000 strikers and family members each day. The union organized the strike like a military operation. Sentries stood guard on fifty roads leading into the city with orders to block all scab traffic. Teenagers on motorcycles acted as couriers, bringing news from the field to strike headquarters. Ray Dunne and Farrell Dobbs were the main coordinators of strike. In less than a year, Dobbs had evolved from an ordinary worker to a strike leader. This happened countless times in the 1930s when a powerful mass movement helped ordinary people discover latent talents.
On July 20, 1934 the cops opened fire on ten unarmed pickets. When other strikers came to their aid, the police shot at them as well. They wounded sixty- seven people, including many whom the cops shot in the back while trying to escape. Two eventually died. Instead of intimidating the workers, the opposite happened. The strike deepened and mass support grew. Four hundred thousand workers attended a mass rally, one of the largest in Minneapolis history. The bosses finally relented in August and recognized union representation for the truck-drivers.
The victory in Minneapolis encouraged the Teamsters to organize over-the-road truckers next. In "Teamster's Power," Dobbs described their working conditions:
"The workers aimed at in this drive toiled under inhuman conditions. Hours of labor varied widely. Trips of from 80 to 120 continuous hours--with catnaps snatched here and there--were quite common. Even longer stretches of continuous driving were obtained through the use of sleeper-cabs.
"Usually the 'sleeping' device consisted of a flat slab behind the drivers' seat with a thin, hard, often lumpy mattress. Two drivers were assigned to these operations, alternating between a turn at the wheel and 'resting' on the slab. Genuine relief from exhaustion was impossible under these rude, unsanitary conditions in a moving truck. Yet the bosses often sought to deduct bunk time from the drivers pay, claiming that they were 'not working.'"
Dobbs put an organizing committee together that included James R. Hoffa, a young trade union militant from Detroit Teamsters Local 299. Hoffa had led a successful work-stoppage involving trucks loaded with highly perishable strawberries. From that moment on, other unionists paid respect to Hoffa as the leader of the "Strawberry Boys." Hoffa, like Dobbs, knew what it meant to be poor. His father was coal miner who died when Hoffa was seven years old. He quit school at the age of fourteen and went to work as a stock boy for $12 per hour. By the time Dobbs had initiated his organizing drive, Hoffa had a reputation for physical courage. In fights with scabs or the cops, he never retreated. In "The Trials of Jimmy Hoffa, he said, "My scalp was laid open sufficiently wide to require stitches no less than six times during the first year I was a business agent of Local 299."
The big difference between Hoffa and Dobbs was political. Hoffa's vision of the labor movement was as a means to advance the interests of working people, and his own career. Over the years the latter goal became much more important than the first. Dobbs, on the other hand, thought that the only way working people could end exploitation was through socialist revolution. The union movement was simply a means toward this end.
When Dobbs met with Teamsters president Dan Tobin in 1939, he received an invitation to become a careerist. Dobbs listened politely, but spurned Tobin's offer. He explains why in "Teamsters Power":
"As the discussion [with Tobin] in its entirety revealed, the IBT head did not contemplate indefinite retention on his staff of an organizer who was a revolutionary-socialist. He obviously relied on the corrupting effects that he assumed high wages and soft living would have upon me. With the passage of time, he expected that I would become just another business unionist. For a period he would have tolerated my continued radicalism, because my special knowledge about the union's newly developed activities in the long distance trucking industry; but only as a part of a transitional process. In the end, either I would have allowed my principles to become compromised, or moves would have been undertaken to oust me from the staff. With the country about to enter World War II, there could be no question that these were the alternatives."
Dobbs' socialism and trade union militancy made him the enemy of the trucking company bosses as well as the Teamsters bureaucracy. Furthermore, his revolutionary opposition to World War Two caused the Roosevelt administration to view him and his co-thinkers as an obstacle to American war aims. Although Hoffa respected the dedication and skills of Farrell Dobbs, he joined up with his enemies with no hesitation. When Tobin decided to purge the Trotskyists from the Minneapolis trade union movement, he enlisted the support of the brawling Hoffa. Hoffa recruited a goon squad from Local 299 and travelled to Minneapolis to do battle.
The Trotskyists and Hoffa's goons had a number of violent clashes, but government repression was what finally drove the Trotskyists from the Teamsters union. The Justice Department brought sedition charges against Dobbs and twenty-seven other members of the Socialist Workers Party and union militants under the provisions of the Smith Act, which made it a crime to advocate revolution. This was the best way to silence revolutionary opposition to World War Two. A jury found eighteen guilty and the judge sentenced Dobbs to twelve to eighteen months in jail. Tobin immediately put Hoffa in charge of the Central State Drivers in the office vacated by Dobbs. Hoffa threw himself into the organizing drive with his customary single-minded drive and energy. He wanted to organize as many drivers as he could. Each additional union member represented additional revenue that could yield higher salaries for Hoffa. Hoffa may have been for the improvement of working people, but he was also very much for the improvement of Jimmy Hoffa as well.
Another major difference between Hoffa and Dobbs was over what was the best source of power that could challenge the employers, cops and scabs during an organizing drive or strike. Dobbs the socialist believed in mass mobilizations of working people, while Hoffa believed in sheer muscle. He built a staff of violent bullies who were blindly loyal to him. These men had the mentality of prize- fighters rather than revolutionaries. Dobbs and other socialists believed in self- defense, up to the point of armed struggle but this power must rest on the organized mass movement rather than goon squads.
Some of the muscle men Hoffa hired as union organizers had ties to organized crime. He drew upon them during a jurisdiction battle with rival Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) organizers in 1941. David Johnson, one of Hoffa's top aides, says that "The CIO had tougher guys than us expected. So Jimmy went to see Santo Perrone." (Dan Moldea reports this connection in the "The Hoffa Wars," a valuable account of Hoffa's use of organized crime figures.) Perrone was a anti-union thug in the 1930s who had spent two years in prison for liquor violations. Like many other gangsters, Perrone could make a switch to the union side if the money was right. Hoffa made his connections to the mob through a former lover, Sylvia Pagano, who had a clerical job with a labor union. After splitting up with Hoffa, she married Sam Scaradino who had ties to Perrone and other gangsters. She was the go-between who initially introduced Hoffa to the mob.
The Teamsters union's ties to organized crime deepened throughout the 1940s and 50s. This alliance took various forms. The gangsters went to work as organizers or business agents. In this capacity they intimated or punished dissidents working for trade union democracy. More importantly, the Teamsters began loaning money from their vast pension funds to businesses owned by the Mafia, particularly to hotels in Las Vegas. The Dorfman family owned the insurance company that handled Teamster investments and had had extensive ties to the mob. Paul Dorfman introduced Hoffa to his associates, Paul DeLucia and Joseph Glimco, who in turn had connections to Sam Giancana, a major Mafia boss.
Also, the union failed to provide a pension when a worker moved from one local to another. The funds were not transferable. Many old and sick workers lived in poverty while union bureaucrats socialized at expensive restaurants and country clubs on money siphoned from pension funds.
The Dorfmans not only stole money from pension funds, they loaned it interest- free to mobsters like Moe Dalitz, who owned the La Costa Country Club. Dalitz met Hoffa through Sylvia Pagano and they became close friends and allies. Dalitz was the head of the "Purple Gang," a group of Jewish bootleggers who were an important part of the Cleveland crime syndicate. Dalitz had close ties with Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky, the two most powerful criminals in American history.
(Years later, Hoffa and these mobsters organized a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, according to reporter Dan Moldea. Lansky had extensive holdings in Havana, Cuba. Castro had announced plans to throw the Mafia off the island, including Lansky's gang. Lansky and Hoffa hired assassins to kill Castro before the Bay of Pigs invasion. Their payment was mob money laundered through the Teamsters union. Moldea also believes that Hoffa was behind the Kennedy assassination as well. In a final twist, Jack Ruby, who had ties to both the Teamsters union and organized crime, murdered Oswald. Much of this is impossible to prove, just as it is impossible to establish who murdered Hoffa himself. Moldea concludes that the CIA was behind the murder of Hoffa since he knew too much about the Castro and Kennedy assassination plots.)
Throughout the 1940s and 50s, there was simmering discontent with the corruption and autocracy of the Teamster officialdom. Every so often a local union would become the battleground between reformers and the goons loyal to Hoffa. The goons usually came out on top. What made these victories possible was not just sheer muscle. These were prosperous years in the United States and a powerful Teamsters union could win strikes without too much trouble. Steady wage increases and goon squad intimidation made for a generally complacent membership.
The status quo began to unravel as the American economy itself began to unravel in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The rank and file Teamster rebellions that began in this period eventually led to the election of Ron Carey. It took the trade union movement nearly thirty years to get rid of Hoffa's gangsters and bureaucrats. The story of this revolt is available in Dan La Botz's essential "Rank and File Rebellion." La Botz himself was one of the founders of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union and tells a gripping story.
The first significant rebellion took place among steel-hauling owner-operators in 1967. The teamster bureaucracy viewed these truck drivers who owned their own rig with utter disdain. They responded by forming their own group, the Fraternal Order of Steel Haulers (FASH). Their goal was to split from the IBT since they had special needs that the union was not addressing. The biggest problem they faced is that the companies refused to pay them as they waited for products to be ready for shipment. This layover time ate into the workers' income. In addition, the rising cost of gasoline became an onerous expense. Many of these workers, while nominally self-employed, found themselves becoming impoverished.
The steel-haulers went on strike on August 21, 1967, and the Teamster bureaucrats ordered them to go back to work immediately. The strike became increasingly violent as individual truckers began throwing bricks or shooting rifles at scab trucks. The strike ended after eight weeks on terms favorable to the dissidents. They struck again in 1969 and the Teamster bureaucracy attacked it with all its power. An Ohio teamster official organized an army of 120 thugs to attack the FASH strikers. Both sides had guns and the fighting left eight men wounded and one dead. From this point on, steel-haulers would look sympathetically upon any attempt to rid the Teamsters of bureaucracy.
The next big rebellion took place a year later in 1970. This time it involved various Teamsters locals that rejected a contract settlement agreed to by their president Frank Fitzsimmons and the trucking industry. They expected a $3.00 per hour raise but the contract settled for only $1.10. The rank and file went out on a wildcat strike that Fitzsimmons and the mainstream press denounced. Fitzsimmons probably had with student revolt on his mind, since he claimed that "Communists" were behind the teamster wild-cat strike. Nobody took this sort of red-baiting to heart anymore. The burly truck-drivers involved in the strike were the unlikeliest "Communists" one could imagine. The trucking industry prevailed upon President Richard Nixon to intercede in the strike at the beginning of May, but the student rebellion against the invasion of Cambodia intervened. The antiwar movement and the war itself had stretched the US military thin. National guardsmen who had been protecting scab truck- drivers occupied the Kent State campuses where they shot five students protesting the war. In clear defiance of the stereotype of American workers, wildcat strikers in Los Angeles regarded student antiwar protesters as allies and invited them to join teamster picket lines. The wildcat strikes eventually wound down, but angry rank and file teamsters started the first national reform organization called Teamsters United Rank and File (TURF).
In 1971, the lawyer Arthur Fox started a new reform group called Professional Drivers Council (PROD) Since Fox worked for Ralph Nader, the group focused on health and safety issues. Since the Teamsters were so bureaucratic, the group inevitably became an outlet for rebellious rank and file workers who wanted a clean sweep of the union. By 1976, PROD had become convinced that the only way that the union could address health and safety issues was by throwing out the unresponsive union leadership. La Botz reports that the PROD leadership came to the 1976 Teamsters convention with a 177 page book detailing Teamster ties to the mob and financial abuses.
The final building block in the reform movement that became Teamsters for a Democratic Union was the Teamsters for a Democratic Contract (TDC). Activists such as Mike Friedman started TDC. La Botz reports that Friedman had been a cabdriver and truck driver for fourteen years and a member of Teamsters local 407 in Cleveland. Friedman was also a member of International Socialists (IS), a small socialist group that emerged from a split in the Trotskyist movement just prior to World War II.
The Trotskyists disagreed over the character of the USSR. Max Schachtman no longer considered it to be socialist. Dobbs, the Dunne brothers and party leader James P. Cannon thought it was a "degenerated workers state," in line with Trotsky's definition in "The Revolution Betrayed." Schachtman drifted the right over the years while the left-wing of his movement started International Socialists. The primary ideological influence on IS is Hal Draper, who wrote a four-volume study of Karl Marx and who advocated "socialism from below."
It was a sign of the maturity of the American left that Friedman and his comrades did not make the correct theory of the Russian workers state pivotal to their work in the Teamster reform movement. Instead Friedman concentrated on fighting the labor bureaucracy. He came to the founding meeting of TURF in Cleveland and pitched in with organizing efforts. Friedman was a Vietnam antiwar movement activist and brought skills learned from that movement into the trade unions. According to La Botz:
"It was while working for Boss-Linco that Friedman became active in the Cleveland chapter of TDU. Mike Friedman and a few other socialists involved brought a wealth of experience in other social movements to enrich the struggle for reform in the Teamsters. They were also well educated and had technical skills such as the ability to put out leaflets and newspapers, and they were experienced organizers who had put together meetings and conferences. But perhaps most important, they brought their idealism and dedication to building a grass-roots movement."
Eventually Teamsters for a Democratic Union became powerful enough to unseat the bureaucracy. The TDU candidate was Ron Carey, who came from the UPS Teamster local in New York City, a long-time reform stronghold. Ronald Robert Carey was born in New York City, son of a driver for United Parcel Service and a strong union man.
After leaving the Marines in 1955, Carey took a job at UPS, delivering packages in New York City. In 1958 he became a shop steward for Teamsters local 804 which, having over 6,000 members, was one of the largest UPS locals in the country. Like many others, Carey became dissatisfied with the bureaucracy and ran in elections for local trustee in 1962 and for recording secretary in 1965. Eventually the union elected him president of the local. When Carey decided to run for the office of local president, his boss told him that unless he withdrew his wife would be told that he was having an affair. Informants friendly to Carey warned him that such a threat was in the works and he secretly tape-recorded the conversation which he played at a union meeting. He swore to the members that he would never give in to such intimidation. He won landslide elections to eight three-year terms.
Carey fought management to improve members' wages and working conditions. He led a strike that allowed drivers to retire after 25 years instead of 30 years and negotiated contracts that doubled the salaries of UPS drivers. After Carey became president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 1991, he cut his own salary from $225,000 to $175,000, and sold off limousines, jets and a Caribbean condominium owned by the union.
The Teamsters were successful in the strike against UPS because the company underestimated the determination of the union and its leadership, and support it would generate among working people. Also, it could no longer rely on a vast reservoir of the unemployed to supply what the bourgeois press euphemistically calls "replacement workers." An improved economy had generated job growth across the United States, especially in those areas where UPS workers worked. This has an analogy with the Great Depression when the big CIO organizing drives only began to take place after the economy had picked up a bit in 1933. When the unemployment rate stood at 25 percent, workers were simply too afraid to strike. Too many unemployed workers could replace them.
New York Times reporter Stephen Greenhouse reported that four months before their contract expired, UPS workers were holding rallies in 30 cities around the country that morning to prepare the ranks for a strike. The media paid little attention to these preparations. However, they turned out to be part of an unusual mobilization effort that was instrumental in the Teamsters' winning most of what they sought in their 15-day strike against UPS. According to Greenhouse:
"The Teamsters' yearlong mobilization included scores of rallies at UPS sites as well as other major efforts, like sending questionnaires to 185,000 Teamsters asking what they wanted from the UPS negotiations and collecting 100,000 signatures backing the union's demands. But the union did not neglect minor details: at one point, it distributed 50,000 whistles for use at the rallies.
"By the time the July 31 strike deadline approached, the Teamsters had turned their UPS membership into a well-oiled juggernaut that the company's leaders underestimated. In dozens of interviews with UPS, union and federal officials, the union's mobilization and the company's misreading of it emerge as the keys to the Teamsters' victory."
Closely related to this miscalculation was the employer's belief that the American people would be hostile to the strike. What they did not count on is the hostility that fifteen years of "downsizing" has generated. When Ron Carey spoke to television reporters about "corporate greed," there is little doubt that millions of Americans agreed with this characterization.
In an article that analyzed the growth of working class solidarity, Times reporter Greenhouse discussed the attitudes of part-time UPS worker Gloria Harris:
"'This sent a message to other companies that you can't keep pushing people so hard, and expect to get away with paying them part-time,' said Ms. Harris, a single mother who lives in a two-bedroom apartment in the rough-at-the-edges Chicago neighborhood of Englewood.
"Except for those who crossed the picket lines, Ms. Harris said, the strike brought people together in a way that company picnics and bowling leagues never could.
'We now feel more like brothers and sisters than co-workers,' she said, noting the diversity of the strikers, who, until the walkout, had often kept to their own racial or ethnic group. 'We all learned something about color. It comes down to green.'"
The most astute analysis of the class relationships that determined the outcome of the strike came from Stephen Roach, the chief economist and director of global economics for Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley. He took note of the leverage of organized labor in an improving economy and observed that, "One strike hardly makes a trend. But there can be no mistaking the message from the nation's most significant work stoppage since 1983. Today, with the unemployment rate at a 24-year low, labor unions were emboldened to take action."
Since American corporations are highly profitable, as reflected by the bull stock market, Roach raises the question of why the workers should not receive a well- deserved raise. The notion of a raise is popular among some politicians and labor leaders. John Sweeney, the new president of the AFL-CIO, has written a book titled "Why America Needs a Raise." The answer Roach gives is not one that encourages a collaborationist relationship between unions and the capitalist class. He states that corporate profits are not the result of increased productivity, but the result of slashing the work-force. Roach says:
"Indeed, in the Commerce Department's just-completed comprehensive revision of the national economic accounts, the poor productivity performance of the 1990's was left essentially unaltered. It found that the United States experienced average annual gains of slightly less than 1 percent over the past six years, little different from the disappointing performance of the 1980's and less than half the gains of the 1950's and 1960's."
The explosion in the rate of profit makes sense in only one way: there has been a change in the way the pie is sliced, but the pie is not growing. The employer's slice is growing at the expense of the worker's. The facts speak for themselves. Roach admits that "Corporate profits surged to 9.6 percent of gross domestic product in 1996, the highest share in 28 years, and labor compensation stood at 58 percent of gross domestic product in 1996, well below the high of 59 percent hit in the late 1980's."
That is why strikes for higher pay will challenge corporate profitability. If productivity is not increasing, the slice of the pie to labor will become larger only at the expense of capital. This is a formula for class struggle and it has the bourgeoisie worried. In a notable commentary "The Left Rises from the Almost Dead", the Economist magazine raises the same sort of concerns as Roach:
"In sum, the new stirrings of strength on the left take two forms. One is the impulse towards union revival and class warfare; the other is the interventionist, but reasonable, progressive idea. Neither has a majority following in the country, but nor should either be ignored. Over the next two years, Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore will need to keep a balance between the two. What emerges may be a Democratic Party once again worthy of being distinguished from the Republicans; or, alternatively, a backward-looking party of resentment that stops the recovery in its tracks."
American socialists will be certain to strengthen the first impulse toward "union revival and class warfare." The recent victory over UPS will serve as a powerful inspiration.

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State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz says she's so disgusted with both sides of the Question 2 issue she doesn't want her answer to be used by either of them to bolster their case.
"I have real beefs with the way the campaigns have been carried out," she said tt a candidate forum sponsored by the Ward 11 and 19 Democratic ward committees in Jamaica Plain last night.
Not that she likes the question itself, either. Chang-Diaz said Question 2, which would allow the expansion of the number of charter-school seats in Massachusetts, is "a menu of bad options, and that's putting it politely."
She said that while it's inexcusable some parents are forced to keep their kids in public-school programs that aren't working for them when there might be better charter options, it's equally awful that the question would drain money away from public schools that really can't afford to lose the funds.
"I don't know what to tell you," she said. "Those are terrible choices."
What compounds the issues, she continued, is that the state is probably already underspending $1 billion to $2 billion a year on education.
Chang-Diaz is opposed in the Sept. 8 Democratic primary for the 2nd Suffolk district by perennial candidate Roy Owens. He did not attend.

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STOP THE SLIDE TOWARD A HOLLOW MILITARY
(Updating Backgrounder No. 957, "Thumbs Down to the Bottom-Up Review," September 22, 1993.) Secretary of Defense Les Aspin observed last May that "right now, we've got the best, most ready force in the world .... To keep it that way, we're going to have to do something that has proved very, very difficult in the past, and that is we're going to have to maintain readiness during a major drawdown of our forces." Aspin will soon be replaced by Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, but his promise to maintain the combat readi- ness of U.S. forces presumably will be maintained by Inman as well. But there is evidence that Aspin's promises are already being broken. For example: X The Army's budget for modernizing its forces, based on requirements identified during the Persian Gulf war, is under-funded by $1 billion? X For the first time in ten years, less than 90 percent of the Marine Corps' equipment is ready to go to war;3 the Marines' backlog in some maintenance categories has gone from zero to $160 million in just two years. 4 X Because of a budget shortfall of $765 million, the Navy has a backlog of ISO aircraft and 250 aircraft en- gines in need of maintenance. 5 These figures reflect the declining combat readiness of U.S. forces, which will become even weaker if the Clinton Administration's defense plans, embodied in the Bottom-Up Review released by Secretary Aspin in September 1993, are carried out. Heritage Foundation analysts examined that review and found that Clinton was proposing a force too large for the amount the Administration is willing to spend. 6 They concluded that the Bottom-Up Review Force (BURF) will be spread too thin for its size and capability, and will not be sufficient to defend America's worldwide interests. Worse yet, the Clinton Administration hopes to find budget savings in critical procurement and development accounts, which will slow the mod- ernization of advanced weapons and technology. The fiscal 1994 Defense Authorization bill incorporates these shortcomings, and will make a return to the "hollow forces" of the 1970s inevitable. During that time U.S. forces looked strong on paper but were nonetheless unable to respond effectively if called to war. To avoid weakening America's combat capability, the Clinton Administration and Congress together must:
V Acknowledge that the Bottom-Up Review force is capable of engaging simultaneously in but one major regional conflict and one smaller contingency. If its objective is to win two simultaneous major regional conflicts, the Administration must provide a larger force.
V Budget $1.4 trillion for defense from fiscal 1993 to 1997, or approximately $280 billion per year.
V Restore the proven ratio of two procurement dollars for every one dollar spent on research and development. This balances the modernization of today's force with the development of the force of tomorrow.
SAVING MONEY TODAY, LOSING LIVES TOMORROW During the 1970s, the turbulence caused by the Vietnam War and its aftermath, poor resource manage- ment practices in the Defense Department, and misguided defense cuts combined to produce a military un- able to fulfill its most basic purpose: to respond to threats to America's interests anytime, anywhere. At the time of the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980, for example, a significant portion of the aircraft from the Air Force's 1 st Tactical Fighter Wing was not fit for combat. On the eve of the Persian Gulf war a decade later, every one of the 1 st Tactical Fighter Wing's aircraft ordered to Saudi Arabia arrived ready to fight within 48 hours. 7 The difference was made possible primarily by ten years of adequate defense spending during the Reagan and Bush years for the training, maintenance, and spare parts necessary to keep U.S. forces ready for battle. Moreover, procurement during the 1980s of newer versions of the F- 16 Falcon and F- 15 Eagle gave the Air Force planes that were easier to maintain and which required less maintenance per flight hour, thereby increasing combat readiness. Since the Clinton Administration took office last year, Secretary Aspin has promised to meet President Clinton's pledge to cut the defense budget without producing a "hollow" force, one which looks strong on paper but lacks the necessary manpower, training, and material readiness to accomplish its mission. How- ever, as passed this November by Congress, the Clinton Administration's cuts in defense spending will prevent Clinton from keeping his pledge. Worse yet, Aspin has acknowledged that his proposed force will be underfunded by at least $31 billion, and perhaps as much as $50 billion. To meet today's operational re- quirements, the services will have to reduce training time, delay maintenance, and reduce spending on the spare parts and new equipment necessary to keep U.S. forces as strong as they were at the end of Operation Desert Storm.
Thinking Ahead. Preserving military strength requires both long-range planning and following through on that planning with consistent spending. Weapon systems take as long as twenty years to develop. The recruits of today become the core of military professionals of tomorrow. Keeping ships at sea, planes in the air, and troops ready for combat demands regular maintenance and spare parts purchased in advance. And less tangible assets, such as training and morale, must be maintained continually for that moment when America's interests are threatened.
7 Author's telephone conversation with staff historian, I st Fighter Wing, Langley Air Force Base, Norfolk, Virginia, January 3,1994.
To meet these requirements, U.S. armed forces must be adequately funded. Near-term needs include such operations and maintenance items as spare parts, fuel, and military pay. These keep U.S. forces deployed and trained every day. Medium-term needs for three to ten years into the future are met by routine pur- chases of new arms and equipment. Finally, long-term needs are met by extensive and innovative research and development of next-generation weapons and other systems. Because it takes more than a decade to move a system from the drawing board to the battlefield, regular funding must be provided to the laboratories and engineers who conceive, design, and test such systems. Fielding future weapons systems demands a commitment not only to procurement, but to research and development as well. This shared commitment historically has required spending about two dollars in procurement for every dollar in research and development. But the Administration's budget, as modified in the fiscal 1994 Defense Authorization bill, will result in spending no more for procurement than it does for research and development. Over time, this one-to-one ratio will prevent the U.S. from building and deploy- ing an adequate number of the weapons it has developed. In the case of the current budget, Congress made matters worse last year by slashing funds for research and development further than the Administration re- quested. The budgets for both procurement and R&D are being reduced too quickly. In a statement accompanying the release of the 1994 Defense Authorization bill, Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA), the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, acknowledged as much when he asserted: "I am concerned about the impact of these overall reductions on our near-term readiness and on our ability to maintain our qualitative and technological edge."8 Near-Term Readiness Maintained, But At What Cost? While the Administration and Congress have taken steps to maintain readiness today, the nation's ability to field an effective force even through the end of the decade is being seriously undermined by Clinton's defense cuts. In the near term, despite a some- what smaller force structure, the Clinton Administration agreed to a modest increase in operations and maintenance funding, from $86 billion in fiscal 1993 to $87.5 billion in fiscal 1994. In addition, Congress wisely overrode the Administration's plan for a pay freeze for military personnel by approving a 2.2 per- cent pay increase for fiscal 1994. But with a 17 percent cut in procurement spending in one year, from $53.6 billion in FY93 to $45.5 billion in FY94, Congress has accepted the Pentagon's explicit description of procurement as the "bill payee' for maintaining current readiness. 9 As for the nation's investment in long-term readiness, Congress overruled the Administration's request for a modest $400 million increase in research and development spending in fiscal 1994 by slashing R&D by 11 percent in real terms in one year, from $38.2 billion in fiscal 1993 to $34.6 billion in fiscal 1994. The armed services have been forced to compensate for inadequate funding for operations and main- tenance with "work-arounds," which preserve their ability to conduct current operations by transferring funds from maintenance and equipment accounts, from training allowances, and from long-term invest- ments. While this hides the immediate effect of funding shortfalls, it damages future readiness and ultimate- ly results in a severe loss of capability. In simple terms, a year or two of "work-arounds" will take more than twice as long to recover from than if operations and maintenance were adequately funded on a regular basis. By allowing these conditions to arise, the Administration and Congress are not only creating a hol- low force, they are mismanaging the taxpayers' money.
8 Press Release, Committee on Armed Services, November 5,1993, p. 1. 9 "Deutch Says Modemization Will Be The 'Bill Payer'," Inside the Pentagon, September 16, 1993, p. 14.
Within two or three years Congress and the Administration will face one of three choices:
1 ) To abandon the force structure recommended by the Bottom-Up Review;
2) To acknowledge that defense is inadequately funded and embark on a significant defense invest- ment program that could have been avoided by providing adequate resources now;
3) To impose further, more draconian reductions in the accounts for procurement and research and development, which together comprise the investment necessary to maintain a modern technologi- cally advanced force.
None of these choices is acceptable. Strong Forces, Always Ready. Most Americans look back on the 1991 Persian Gulf war as the pinnacle of U.S. military prowess. What some Americans may easily forget is that the forces which won Desert Storm were largely the product of the Reagan Administration's unprecedented buildup during the 1980s. There is only one way to describe the current reductions: the Administration and Congress have sacrificed the combat readiness of the force of tomorrow in order to preserve operational readiness today. Had Ronald Reagan and Congress done the same thing in the 1980s, George Bush would not have won such a sweeping victory in the Persian Gulf war. Bill Clinton and Congress owe the same careful stewardship to the next President.
Wars and the threat of wars in North Korea and the former Soviet Union have shown clearly that America must be ready to defend her interests around the world. And as extremist victories in the recent Russian elections clearly demonstrate, the U.S. once again could be facing a mortal danger from Russia. By taking steps now to restore adequate funding to the defense budget, America's leaders can ensure that the U.S. military remains strong enough to prevail in any conflict. John Luddy Policy Analyst


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The course is aimed for people who would like to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge in Sustainable Finance and related topics.
After completing the course, participants will have a well-founded knowledge of the concepts of Sustainable Finance.
Please note that instructors are subject to change and not all instructors teach in each session of the program.

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The advanced persistent threat group Lazarus with North Korean links has been observed using a modular backdoor during last week to compromise a series of Latin American financial institutions by Trend Micro's Lenart Bermejo and Joelson Soares.
As unearthed by the Trend Micro research team , the APT38 threat group successfully compromised a number of computing systems owned by multiple financial institutions from Latin America.
Lazarusused a backdoor malware to infiltrate their targets, with the malicious tool being discovered on the impacted systems sometimeduring last week.
Moreover, according to Trend Micro, Lazarus' backdoor was planted on the Latin American financial institutions' computers onSeptember 19, based on the creation time of the services it started once it managed to compromise its targets.
Lazarus' backdoor used three different components to completely own its targets, with the AuditCred.dll/ROptimizer.dll being the loader launched as a service,Msadoz.dll being the actual encrypted backdoor malware, andAuditcred.dll.mui/rOptimizer.dll.mui the malware's encrypted configuration file.
"The loader DLL is installed as a service and uses different names (AuditCred and ROptimizer) on different machines," said Trend Micro in their analysis. "However, they still have the same capabilities and are essentially the same file. Its purpose is to load Msadoz.dll in order to decrypt and execute it in memory."The Lazarus backdoor can download additional malware on compromised systems
Once Lazarus' backdoor managed to infiltrate financial institutions' computing systems, it could perform an extensive range of tasks from collecting system info, opening reverse shells, and downloading additional malware to deleting local files, updating its configuration, manage local processes, and injecting code into already running processes.
Trend Micro also noticed that the APT38 backdoor also used a convoluted storage setup designed to obfuscate its presence and make removal as hard as possible, with the loader being stored in one location and the encrypted backdoor being holed up somewhere else on the drive.
This new Lazarus attack campaign discovered by Trend Micro is just as sophisticated as all the others the APT group was involved in, with highly complex malware tools designed to avoid detection and, when possible, render their victims computing systems unusable after successfully stealing funds or exfiltrating the data it targets.
Until now, Lazarus has been observed while conducting highly complicated operations within at least 11 countries around the globe according to FireEye and they've demonstrated their willingness to go as far as possible if necessary, by destroying all tracks left behind and even rendering the networks they attack inoperable if the situation requires it.


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By Zachary Stieber
Federal prosecutor John Durham, who is leading the Department of Justice probe into the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, appointed a new criminal division chief on Jan. 27.
Durham, a U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, said that Sarah Karwan will take the position.
“I am thrilled that Sarah Karwan will lead our Criminal Division. During her more than 12 years as an AUSA [assistant U.S. attorney], Sarah has done it all, prosecuting violent criminals, drug traffickers, financial fraudsters, corrupt public officials, and a wide variety of other wrongdoers,” Durham said in a statement.
“Given the breadth of her experience and her exceptional lawyering skills, she certainly will be a standout as our new Criminal Chief.”
Karwan most recently was chief of the District’s Major Crimes Unit, where she supervised prosecution of cases involving matters such as immigration, human trafficking, and hate crimes. Her cases included prosecuting a Connecticut teenager who possessed a firearm with “an obliterated serial number,” a New Haven man who possessed heroin and crack cocaine with intent to distribute, and a Woodbury man who stole more than $1.8 million from the estate of a woman who died, according to Justice Department press releases.
As an assistant U.S. attorney, Karwan served as both the district’s professional responsibility officer and elections officer and was a member of the hiring committee. She also spent time as deputy chief of the District’s Financial Fraud and Public Corruption Unit and as an Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force attorney.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Karwan was in private practice for about six years, specializing in securities litigation. She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1997 and from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2000.
Karwan replaces William Nardini, who now sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.
Durham was tasked with looking into the origins of the probe into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. The investigation includes looking at actions taken by private actors, Attorney General William Barr said in December 2019.
“He’s not just looking at the FBI,” Barr said. “He’s looking at other agencies and departments and also private actors. So it’s a much broader investigation.”
Durham is also looking at the FBI’s use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants and actions taken by other agencies such as the CIA.
“He is not just looking at the FISA aspect of it. He is looking at all the conduct both before and after the election,” Barr said.
In December, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his team’s report on the FBI’s use of FISA. Horowitz found that FBI officials made a slew of omissions in applying to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page, including purposefully omitting that Page was a CIA asset.
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You can do lots of things with this, after you have completed this tutorial, experiment on your own . You can do picture corners, photo frames, even put this pattern inside of text. For now, let us make a simple bar that will give you the basic tools on how to make a pearl-like texture.
Fire up Gimp.
Create a new image 400 x 600 pxls
Select the Ellipse or Circle Tool and draw a circle. Choose the Gradient Tool and from the Gradient Menu, pick Cool Steel, make the shape Conical (Sym), and click on Dithering and on Adaptive Supersampling.
Make you gradient by stroking with your mouse from the top of your circle down.
Go to Select, Grow and grow your circle by 4 pxls.
Change the Foreground color to #10adef and the Background color to #105ff1
Got o the Toolbox and select the Blend or Gradient Tool again, this time, change the Gradient to FG to BG (RGB), change the direction to Linear, and give it an opacity of 18.0.
Make your gradient over the previous circle you had made. Turn the Background transparent by doing the following, go to Layer, Transparency, Add Alpha Channel. Then, choose the little wand that is the 4th tool at the top of the toolbox, click the background with it and then hit, Ctrl + X.
Then go to Select, None.
Pick the Rectangle Select Tool and make a square around your circle that barely encases the circle, leaving as much of the transparent background out as you can. Go to Image, Crop to Selection.
Now go to image, Scale Image and scale it down to 40 x 40.
Now, go to File, New and make an image that is 100 x 100 pxls.
Again to Layer, Transparency, Add Alpha Channel and with the Fuzzy select that you used before, click on the new 100x 100 pxls image. Click on Xtrl +x to make it transparent.
Go back to your circle and while it is selected, choose Pattern Fill, Clipboard (the white square at the top, when you pull down the little pattern fill menu).
Go to Select, ALL, then Edit, Copy.
Create a new image of the size you want your pearl embellishment bar to be. If you have done the steps right, it will come up of a dark blue color (one of the shades in the Cool Steel gradient) now, select the Bucket Tool and click your new image again.
It will fill up with the pearls.
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^ Qaseem A, Wilt TJ, Rich R, Humphrey LL, Frost J, Forciea MA (17 January 2017). "Pharmacologic Treatment of Hypertension in Adults Aged 60 Years or Older to Higher Versus Lower Blood Pressure Targets: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians". Annals of Internal Medicine. 166 (6): 430–437. doi:10.7326/M16-1785. PMID 28135725.
The portal venous system contains veins coming from the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas. These veins merge into the portal vein, which branches into smaller vessels and travel through the liver. Portal hypertension occurs when there is an increase in the blood pressure within the portal venous system. When the vessels in the liver are blocked due to liver damage, blood cannot flow properly through the liver. This causes high blood pressure in the portal system.
Modern understanding of the cardiovascular system began with the work of physician William Harvey (1578–1657), who described the circulation of blood in his book "De motu cordis". The English clergyman Stephen Hales made the first published measurement of blood pressure in 1733. However, hypertension as a clinical entity came into its own with the invention of the cuff-based sphygmomanometer by Scipione Riva-Rocci in 1896. This allowed easy measurement of systolic pressure in the clinic. In 1905, Nikolai Korotkoff improved the technique by describing the Korotkoff sounds that are heard when the artery is ausculated with a stethoscope while the sphygmomanometer cuff is deflated. This permitted systolic and diastolic pressure to be measured.
tilt table test – usually recommended if your doctor suspects you might have orthostatic hypotension or NMH (During this diagnostic test, a person lies on a table and then the table is tilted to raise the upper part of their body. This simulates the change in position from sitting or lying down to standing up. People with orthostatic hypotension or NMH may feel dizzy, lightheaded, or even faint when their position changes.)
The value of routine screening for hypertension in children over the age of 3 years is debated. In 2004 the National High Blood Pressure Education Program recommended that children aged 3 years and older have blood pressure measurement at least once at every health care visit and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and American Academy of Pediatrics made a similar recommendation. However, the American Academy of Family Physicians supports the view of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that the available evidence is insufficient to determine the balance of benefits and harms of screening for hypertension in children and adolescents who do not have symptoms.
Blood pressure is assessed using two parameters -- the systolic and diastolic pressures -- which measure, respectively, the maximum pressure exerted in the arteries as the heart contracts, and the minimum pressure in those vessels between cardiac contractions. In adults, blood pressure is considered normal if the top number (systolic pressure) is between 90 and 120 and the bottom number (diastolic) is between 60 and 80.
Diuretics can lead to an increase in potassium loss, known as hypokalemia, which, in turn can affect muscular function -- including the muscles of the heart. There is also an increased risk for gout with diuretics -- as well as the possibility of weakness, thirst, dehydration, and increased urination. Changes in blood sugar levels are also possible. Skin reactions, some severe, are possible with thiazide diuretics (such as hydrochlorothiazide). Potassium-sparing diuretics, such as spironolactone (Aldactone) may cause breast enlargement in males.
Calcium channel blockers are drugs that reduce the movement of calcium into cells of the heart and vessels. This reduces the strength of heart contractions and relaxes the arteries, allowing them to remain more open, lowering blood pressure. Side effects of calcium channel blockers can include heart palpitations, dizziness, swollen ankles, and constipation. Calcium channel blockers can be taken alone or with other blood pressure medications. They should be taken with food or milk. Because of potential interactions, those taking calcium channel blockers should avoid alcohol and grapefruit juice.
Health care providers measure blood pressure with a sphygmomanometer (sfig-mo-muh-NAH-muh-ter), which has a cuff that's wrapped around the upper arm and pumped up to create pressure. When the cuff is inflated, it squeezes a large artery in the arm, stopping the blood flow for a moment. Blood pressure is measured as air is gradually let out of the cuff, which allows blood to flow through the artery again.
^ Roerecke, Michael; Tobe, Sheldon W.; Kaczorowski, Janusz; Bacon, Simon L.; Vafaei, Afshin; Hasan, Omer S. M.; Krishnan, Rohin J.; Raifu, Amidu O.; Rehm, Jürgen (27 June 2018). "Sex‐Specific Associations Between Alcohol Consumption and Incidence of Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Cohort Studies". Journal of the American Heart Association. 7 (13): e008202. doi:10.1161/JAHA.117.008202.
If your blood pressure readings are consistently high, you and your doctor will probably discuss treatment strategies. Treatment for high blood pressure often begins with lifestyle changes such as a weight loss and exercise program as well as a low sodium diet. In fact, the AHA recommends adopting these strategies as a means of preventing the development of high blood pressure and heart disease. If these strategies are not successful in lowering your blood pressure, medications may be recommended.
Hypertension occurs in around 0.2 to 3% of newborns; however, blood pressure is not measured routinely in healthy newborns. Hypertension is more common in high risk newborns. A variety of factors, such as gestational age, postconceptional age and birth weight needs to be taken into account when deciding if a blood pressure is normal in a newborn.
Daily exercise: Being fit is a key part of blood pressure control. All kids with hypertension should exercise and play sports for 1 hour each day — with some activity (like jogging) most days and higher levels of activity (like running) 3 times a week. Usually, exercise is restricted only when hypertension is very severe. Kids with severe hypertension should not do any weight- or power-lifting, bodybuilding, or strength training until their blood pressure is under control and a doctor says it's OK.
Preeclampsia is elevated blood pressure and the leakage of protein into the urine by the kidneys. Preeclampsia can be dangerous to both mother and baby. High blood pressure during pregnancy may lead to decreased blood flow to the placenta, placental abruption, premature delivery, or future cardiovascular disease. After the baby is born, high blood pressure during pregnancy usually returns to normal levels.
With age, comes an increased risk for systolic hypertension which can be aggravated by severe atherosclerosis. According to one study, the diuretic chlorthalidone (Hygroton) had significant benefit in elderly patients with systolic hypertension. Along with a diuretic, some calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers may also be good choices. However, beta blockers may not be as effective for hypertension in those over 60; though they may be good choices if co-existing heart disease is present. It also may be preferable in elderly patients to give two high blood pressure medications at a low dose versus one at a higher dose.
There are even more medication types that can lower blood pressure. Some of these are alpha blockers, vasodilators, and central alpha agonists. Your doctor may prescribe these medications if other medications have been ineffective or if you have another condition along with hypertension. Side effects can include fast pulse, palpitations, dizziness, diarrhea, or headaches.
Creatinine is a chemical waste molecule that is generated from muscle metabolism. Creatinine is produced from creatine, a molecule of major importance for energy production in muscles. Creatinine has been found to be a fairly reliable indicator of kidney function. As the kidneys become impaired the creatinine level in the blood will rise. Normal levels of creatinine in the blood vary from gender and age of the individual.
It occurs more often in older people who are taking a lot of medication. However, it can cause symptoms in younger people. There may be underlying medical conditions such as joint hypermobility syndrome, diabetes, parkinson’s disease, addison’s disease or autonomic failure. Dehydration, hunger, low body weight and deconditioning (being out of shape/unfit) can reduce blood pressure.
Most doctors do not make a final diagnosis of high blood pressure until they measure your blood pressure several times (at least 2 blood pressure readings on 3 different days). Some doctors ask their patients to wear a portable machine that measures their blood pressure over the course of several days. This machine may help the doctor find out whether a patient has true high blood pressure or what is known as “white-coat hypertension.” White-coat hypertension is a condition in which a patient’s blood pressure rises during a visit to a doctor when anxiety and stress probably play a role.
Blood pressure changes throughout the day and varies from person to person. Various factors affect blood pressure, including your body position, breathing rhythm, stress level, physical activity, medications, what you eat or drink, and the time of the day (blood pressure is usually lowest at night when you sleep and rises when you wake up). In healthy individuals, your body responds and adapts to these changes to keep your blood pressure within a normal range. This ensures that vital organs, such as your brain and kidneys, receive a constant blood flow and nutrient supply.
Unlike high blood pressure symptoms, which are poorly defined and often totally absent, low blood pressure symptoms tend to be more upfront and easily recognizable. The development of symptoms is often a warning sign of a potentially serious underlying disorder. Generally speaking, your blood pressure would need to fall pretty dramatically before symptoms develop.

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The World Champion Philadelphia Phillies dropped four games to the Houston freakin’ Astros this weekend, and Charlie Manuel was not at all pleased:
“I hear some of them talking, saying we’re a team that plays better when we have to. [Expletive] the last couple years. What the hell? That don’t mean [expletive]. Last year is dead and gone. We play for today . . .When I get up in the morning, I feel good. When the game is over, the last four, five days, I haven’t felt too damn good.”
One of those losses came on yet another Brad Lidge blown save. Apparently Manuel doesn’t want to [expletive] the part of last year that had Lidge’s name written down in permanent marker as the closer, however, because Manuel appears to be sticking with him.
The Phillies have lost eight of 13, mostly it seems, due to bad hitting, not poor pitching. But if Manuel is going to shake this team up — and he certainly sounds like he wants to — maybe throwing some bats into the shower, demoting Brad Lidge and showing everyone that they can be replaced if they don’t step it the [expletive] up is the best way to do it.
Fellow second basemen Javier Baez of the Cubs and D.J. LeMahieu of the Rockies got into a disagreement in the top of the third inning of Sunday’s game at Coors Field over sign-stealing.
LeMahieu reached on a fielder’s choice ground out, then advanced to second base on Charlie Blackmon‘s single. While Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story were batting, Baez was concerned that LeMahieu was relaying the Cubs’ signs to his teammates. Baez decided to stand in front of LeMahieu to block any information he might have been giving to Arenado and Story. LeMahieu got irritated and the two jawed at each other for a bit. Umpires Vic Carapazza and Greg Gibson had to intervene to tell Baez to knock it off.
There has always been a back-and-forth with alleged sign-stealing. As long as teams aren’t using technology to steal signs, it’s fair game for players to relay information to their teammates about the opposing team’s signs. Last year, MLB determined the Red Sox went against the rules and used technology — an Apple watch in this case — to steal signs from the Yankees. Other teams in the past have been accused of using binoculars from the bullpen to steal signs. In this particular case with Baez and LeMahieu, there was no foul play going on, just Baez trying to make the Rockies cede what he perceived to be their slight competitive advantage.
The Cubs went on to beat the Rockies 9-7 on Sunday.


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The First Friday in February brings art events galore. As with every first Friday of the month, Feb. 1, plays host to gallery openings and receptions all over the Duke City. The number of venues participating is too great to list here, so visit the Albuquerque Art Business Association's website (www.artscrawlabq.org) for full details. Most galleries will be open from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight and offer snacks, art and fine conversation.
Tales of Many
Soul Expressions at the South Broadway Cultural Center
Evan Harrison has a knack for mixing business and hobby. In elementary school, he made drawings of horses and Pokémon to sell to fellow classmates. In junior high, he used Sharpies to create temporary tattoos during lunch hour. (Now he gets requests for real tattoo designs.) All through school, he made a few bucks by doing what he loves—making art.
The Anti-Slumber Party
The Pajama Men burn up The Stove
One of my favorite things about the Pajama Men--the funnyman duo made up of über-buddies Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez--is that on visits back to their hometown (that would be Albuquerque) they go out of their way to set up shows in new, little-known venues. Such is the case with a new live improv comedy and music show at The Stove, an art gallery and performance venue located in the fertile terrain of East Nob Hill.
Desmond Pucket and the Mountain Full of Monsters at Bookworks
A reading and signing with writer Mark Tatulli.
ABC Seed Library Bookclub at Juan Tabo Public Library
Creating Space: Youth Poetry in Albuquerque (Emily Bjustrom) at New Life Presbyterian ChurchMore Recommented Events ››


Should you be Using PTFE to Manufacture Your Product? PTFE Processing, Properties and Applications
PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) is a synthetic resin derived from the polymerization of tetrafluoroethylene. PTFE is more commonly known by various trademarks such as Teflon, Hostaflon and Polyflon.
Properties of PTFE
PTFE possesses several properties that make it suitable for manufacturing a wide range of products:
Some PTFE End-Products
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Eating and Drinking in Crathorne
Yarm, North Yorkshire TS15 0BA
This place is great for special occassions as it is a bit on the pricey side.
Having said that the food was of good quality and enjoyed by the whole...
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This book, however, has a different kind of presentation. In the first book.First, some basic building blocks are given. After From that base, some of the accoutrements are shown. In the book.They range from simple to complex. Hard to get used to the shape will be smooth. The clear and basic parts of the book.Their years of use have been explained in the fun book of paper shredding was given. The main part of all this is also in this book.
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Groaning, I sat up and slowly rose to my feet. Shuffling to the vanity, I turned the water on and then bent over, scooping the icy water and splashing it across my face. I sucked in a sharp gasp but did it again, letting it soak my skin and most of my hair. I reached for the mouthwash, swishing it around until the taste of the bile was gone. Then I lifted my eyes to the water-spotted mirror and gazed upon the girl who stared back at me.
I recognized the heart-shaped face and damp, blond hair sticking to cheeks that were flushed a faint pink. The large brown eyes were mine, as were the parted lips and slightly pointy chin that really didn’t match the rest of my face.
That was me.
“My name is Evie.” I cleared my throat as I placed my hands on the vanity, steadying myself. “My name is … Nadia Holliday?” I shook my head. “No. I’m not her. I’m Evie Dasher.”
I wasn’t her, either, now was I?
But I was Peaches …
I ran my hands down my face as I stepped back from the sink. And I had remembered something of Nadia. The kiss. Our first kiss. I may not have any other memories of my time as Nadia, but I knew in my bones that had been my first kiss, too.
A ding from my phone startled me. I turned from the mirror and flipped off the light, hurrying to my bed. I found the phone half buried under a pillow and picked it up, my stomach twisting and dipping when I saw Luc’s name on the screen.
Can’t sleep. You?
I sat down on the bed. A strange mix of fluttering anticipation and trepidation replaced the churning nausea, and I wasn’t sure if that was better or worse.
Since the day in Harpers Ferry, things had shifted between us. What I was beginning to feel for him, or had always felt for him, was all over the place. How could I untangle those feelings from a past I couldn’t remember and a present that left me entirely confused?
Can’t sleep, either, I texted back.
A moment passed and then, Let me in.
Let me in? Crap! Shooting off the bed, I spun around and stared at my bedroom window. Was he—
There was a soft knock.
He was totally outside my window.
I hurried over before one of our neighbors just happened to notice him perched on my window like a hot pterodactyl.
“Evie?” came the muffled voice. “Is Diesel sleeping?”
A grin tugged at my lips. I probably shouldn’t let him in, but I wanted a distraction after that nightmare.
That’s what I told myself as I pushed the curtains aside and shoved the window up. That letting him in had nothing to do with that distraction being Luc. Cool night air rushed in. “My mom is home.”
“I know.” Moonlight sliced over his striking face.
“You shouldn’t be here.”
Luc grinned as he offered a can of soda to me. “I know.”
“You just don’t care?”
“About getting caught? Nope.”
Shooting him a dark look, I snatched the can out of his hand and then stepped back. “If she catches you, it’s really not going to win you any brownie points.”
“She won’t catch me.”
Like a large cat, he came through the window and landed nimbly, quietly on his feet. He straightened to his full height. I wasn’t exactly short, but Luc still towered over me. He turned, closing the window.
Soda can in hand, I desperately tried to ignore the fluttering deep in my chest as I checked the bedroom door, making sure it was locked. Then, drawing in a shallow breath, I faced him.
He was wearing a plain white T-shirt and a pair of gray-and-burgundy flannel bottoms. His hair was a mess, waves sticking up in every direction, and he looked utterly adorable, which was a word I never thought I’d use to describe Luc.
But there was something boyishly charming about him as he stood there, his eyes heavy with the cobwebs of sleep. In that moment, when he looked like he’d just shuffled out of bed, I could almost forget what he was.
“You came all the way here in your pajamas?” My gaze dipped. “And barefoot?”
“My feet didn’t even touch the ground.” He gave me a cheeky grin as his gaze drifted over me in a quick perusal. “I like the shirt.”
Glancing down at myself, I frowned. The shirt I wore was at least three sizes too big. It was a shapeless tent, and as long as I didn’t start to do jumping jacks, there was no way he could tell that I wasn’t wearing a bra. A whole lot of leg was on display since the shirt only reached the middle of my thighs.
But Luc had seen a lot more than my legs.
“What do you like about it?” I asked.
One side of his mouth curled up. “There is an unmeasurable list of things I like about this shirt, but the QUEEN OF THE NAPS written across the front of it is in the top three.”


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The most significant of these criteria is the loan limit, which refers to the maximum amount of the loan that Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac will purchase. The loan limit can change from year to year. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has increased the conforming loan limit for a single-family, one-unit property-to $484,350 (as of 2019.
For the third year in a row, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has raised the conforming loan limits. Conforming, otherwise known as conventional mortgages, are underwritten to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac guidelines.
Many are also backed by Fannie Mae (OTCQB:FNMA) which carries a negligibly higher risk in case the company goes under after.
The Federal Housing Finance agency (fhfa) today announced that the maximum baseline conforming loan limit for mortgage loans acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2017 will increase to $424,100 from $417,000. This will be the first increase in the conforming loan limit since it was raised to $417,000 in 2006.
Usda Loan Limits Texas What Is The Maximum Loan Amount For A Conventional Loan 2019 conventional loan limits. The conventional loan limit for 2019 is $484,350 for a single family home. Though, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have designated high-cost areas where limits are higher. For example, a single-family home in Seattle, Washington could have a maximum loan of $592,250.Conventional Mortgage Loan Limit In most counties across the country, the 2019 maximum conforming loan limit for a single-family home will be $484,350. That’s an increase of $31,250 from the 2018 baseline limit of $453,100. This marks the third year in a row that federal housing officials have raised the baseline.Minority and Women Farmers and Ranchers loans support the full participation of minority and women family farmers in FSA’s farm loan programs by targeting a portion of its direct and guaranteed farm ownership and operating loan funds for minority and women farmers to buy and operate a farm or ranch.
For manually underwritten loans, Fannie Mae’s maximum total DTI ratio is 36% of the borrower’s stable monthly income. The maximum can be exceeded up to 45% if the borrower meets the credit score and reserve requirements reflected in the Eligibility Matrix.
Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We are a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders and our financing makes sustainable homeownership and workforce rental housing a reality for millions of Americans.
A conforming loan is a mortgage that is equal to or less than the dollar amount established by the conforming-loan limit set by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s Federal regulator, the Federal Housing.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Tuesday that it is increasing the conforming loan limit for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages in nearly every part of the U.S. Read on to see where.
conventional loans follow fannie Mae or Freddie Mac underwriting guidelines. Conventional minimum loan limits are set nationwide. conventional loan limits can be higher than the conforming loan limit in high cost Counties. High cost Counties get to enjoy all of the benefits of traditional conforming underwriting guidelines.
Conventional loans follow Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac underwriting guidelines. Conventional minimum loan limits are set nationwide. Conventional loan limits can be higher than the conforming loan limit in high cost Counties. High cost Counties get to enjoy all of the benefits of traditional conforming underwriting guidelines.

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Two sisters in Vietnam became the latest victims of Asia’s bird flu outbreak Wednesday as regional ministers and international health experts vowed at an emergency meeting to curb the spread of the virus and find a vaccine.
The World Health Organization’s regional director Shigeru Omi warned, “there’s always potential for this kind of outbreak to result in serious global pandemic, which involves not hundreds, but could kill millions of people globally.”
Bird flu has raced through Asia’s poultry farms and, with the deaths of the women in Vietnam, has killed at least 10 people in two countries.
WHO has stressed that mass slaughter of infected birds is key to controlling the epidemic’s spread, but the three-hour meeting in Bangkok made no unanimous declaration of action. Indonesia said it does not plan to kill poultry and will rely on vaccinations, though it’s not clear that method will work.
Across Asia, millions of chickens and ducks have been killed by the disease or in government-ordered slaughters. China announced Wednesday it had slaughtered nearly 60,000 chickens, trying to assure the public that bird flu was under control a day after its first cases were confirmed in ducks.
Bangkok itself was declared a “danger zone” after the virus was detected in a fighting cock and other fowl around the sprawling metropolis.
Fending off accusations that it tried to cover up the emergency to protect its lucrative poultry export sector, Thailand said it would fire bureaucrats who allegedly failed to report the true extent of the disease that has now been detected in about one-third of its provinces.
Contact with sick birds
The bird flu virus claimed the most victims in Vietnam, where eight people have died. Two people have died in Thailand. Most cases have been traced to direct contact with sick birds.
The Vietnamese sisters who died last week, aged 23 and 30, had just attended their brother’s wedding. The brother also died last week, but his body was cremated before it could be tested for bird flu, officials said.
“Family members told us that the bride gave his family more than 10 chickens she bought from the market for the wedding reception,” said Le Dang Ha, director of the Instituted of Clinical Research for Tropical Medicine.
WHO said it would receive samples to confirm Vietnam’s diagnosis that the women, from Thai Binh, 60 miles southeast of Hanoi, had bird flu.
In their joint statement in Bangkok, ministers and experts pledged to tighten surveillance of the virus across Asia and to set up a regional veterinary network. They also vowed to study ways to fight animal disease outbreaks and develop low-cost test kits, vaccination and anti-viral drugs.
The virus has proved a disaster for the region’s poultry industry, in a health scare comparable to last year’s global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Although there has been no evidence of human-to-human transmission in the latest outbreak, health officials are concerned the virus might mix with a regular human influenza strain to create a mutant form that could trigger the next human flu pandemic.
The World Health Organization says there’s still time to prevent the virus from taking root in the human population. “We have a window of opportunity to deal with this disease,” said Dr. Klaus Stohr, project leader for influenza surveillance and scientific groups at the World Health Organization.
Cooked poultry safe
Officials have said there are no indications so far that bird flu is spreading to people who eat properly cleaned and cooked poultry products.
In Indonesia — which insists it has no human cases of bird flu — officials on the island of Bali held a roast chicken and boiled egg cookout Wednesday to allay fears of eating fowl. About two dozen people attended.
Other governments worldwide have slapped import bans on poultry from countries affected with bird flu. The European Union banned imports from Thailand last week. Kuwait, Jordan and Sri Lanka on Tuesday banned poultry imports from several affected countries.
Wednesday’s conference in Bangkok drew representatives from nearly a dozen governments, including China, the European Union and the United States.
Food and Agriculture Organization spokesman Diderik de Vleeschauwer said the U.N. agency was advising three key strategies at the meeting: rapid slaughter of inflected flocks, modernization of poultry farming and studies on how to detect outbreak earlier.
“We think there is a need for rethinking livestock development in the region,” de Vleeschauwer said. “Live animal markets should be reviewed, and eventually restricted.”
Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea and Taiwan also have suffered outbreaks. But the virus that has killed flocks in Pakistan and Taiwan is a different, milder strain of avian flu — not the same kind that’s a threat to people.
The Philippines said Wednesday they are warning people to stay clear of migratory birds that traditionally flock to the Philippines during winter.
WHO officials are investigating whether migratory birds could explain the rapid spread of the virus through Asia or whether the outbreaks are coincidental. But Philip Round, a bird expert at Mahidol University in Bangkok, said he doubted the cause was migratory birds and instead blamed crowding in the region’s massive poultry population.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization also pointed to the massive concentration of livestock in China, Thailand and Vietnam as possibly helping the spread of bird flu across Asia. An agency official at the Bangkok meeting, He Changchui, said the poultry industry needs to be substantially restructured.


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The severe limitation of the capacity of working memory, the ability to store temporarily and manipulate information1, necessitates mechanisms that restrict access to it. Here we report tests to discover whether the activity of neurons in the prefrontal (PF)cortex, the putative neural correlate of working memory2,3,4,5,6,7,8, might reflect these mechanisms and preferentially represent behaviourally relevant information. Monkeys performed a ‘delayed-matching-to-sample’ task with an array of three objects. Only one of the objects in the array was relevant for task performance and the monkeys needed to find that object (the target) and remember its location. For many PF neurons, activity to physically identical arrays varied with the target location; the location of the non-target objects had little or no influence on activity. Information about the target location was present in activity as early as 140 ms after array onset. Also, information about which object was the target was reflected in the sustained activity of many PF neurons. These results suggest that the prefrontal cortex is involved in selecting and maintaining behaviourally relevant information.
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