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As I watch your silhouette fading away through the airport’s door,
I stumble down on my knees,
I play music, I cry like a baby because you’re not here with me anymore,
and probably you never will be.
An Atlantic distance between the two of us,
I know, it would make it a challenge.
As spring explodes in the shadow of the castle,
I sit alone in the sun you’ve seen,
as a dog barks and old souls hope for a better future.
Though spring is here for me it’s still September,
flowers bloom only on Arthur’s Seat.
People and stories go by,
and I can only think of you, of your sweet smile,
of your accent while speaking,
of the way you move when you show me things,
of your irresistible shyness.
Then a crossroad,
the drunk night of feelings,
and you already plan your next trip.
I see the green meadows in the sunshade,
I see us, holding hands, walking peacefully
creating the seed of infinite.
A dream, an illusion,
while life leads us astray,
and I still can recall your voice,
that fragile moment before it disappears in the flow.
And then I plan, I try to figure out what could I do,
to be that special man, to be the privileged,
who could kiss you under the castle’s hill.
Drops of pouring rain hitting my forehead,
my sudden comeback,
while fast cars drive by on the fast lane.
A far away friend,
a missed answer,
numbers I don’t remember.
A regret digging in my soul.
Can you hear my call?
This hurt I’m going through,
it’s a glimpse of moonshine through the wet ground.
Snowflakes flying in the twilight,
they’re tapping against my skin,
while a wistful silence reigns
on the white-covered countryside.
The shadows of the night gather in the suburbs,
and I take your side,
I take up the gauntlet,
to find a flickering light through the grimmest darkness.
I won’t bide my time, waiting for the sun to come,
I will shovel in the snow,
till I see the sun rays cutting through,
warming up my weak, pale and thirsty skin.
I am sitting in this bar alone,
as the sun outside waver to rise.
The cappuccino gets cold,
and an old song plays on the radio.
Fog, rain, and the door opening.
A low-vibe day,
I’m snuggling undercover with a thought,
And the thoughts in my head wreck havoc,
while the world spins slowly around,
People Help the People now,
exploding ground in paradise.
And that boy crying for help,
he has learned to swallow the venom,
to keep anger down,
and to fake a scenery of plastic success.
That boy has learned to smile,
to see beauty in a simple drop of rain.
to feel how cold can be a refusal,
to feel how wrong and perfect can be to love.
And the thoughts in my head wreck havoc,
a speech I can’t get,
you, sat on the sofa, snorting snow,
my love sinking in the ocean,
my knife stabbing your back,
the blood from your heart,
a flowing creek of crooked thistles,
and then liberty.
Two other bodies enter the room,
they speak my mother tongue,
I don’t want to hear my mother tongue anymore,
as the bombs explode on the boot,
and children are killed for the sake of the Unknown
the words in my head wreck havoc.
Stuck on the other side of the horizon,
strolling down the lights of Spadina,
till the water’s edge greets me with its phosphorescence,
and the air of yesterday smells like pinewood.
A scent of something nice, lost in the fog.
amid the highest glass,
I find myself thinking what would’ve been like,
to be a son of the other side,
a child of the land of the never-ending fields.
Will I ever change?
All the time that sun shines and the warmth of its rays crosses my windows,
I feel like I’m still there,
standing on the platforms of Union Station,
dreaming of a brilliant future,
a simple smile from a cute face,
the revolution I am looking for.
Again, again, I climb on a tree to see the harbour,
save me from a prison of bombing,
take me on a plane,
14.000 miles from home,
the first hope in my heart,
like a plane on Lake Ontario.
Quietly stealing time,
from a stream of consciousness,
which leads me to an unknown shore,
You and your thoughts,
laughing at the sea,
open the door for a little while,
fear the sound of silence.
come crash my voice,
in a nifty resonance.
And the bottle of wine is poured out,
while my feet flee.
Away from my mirror.
I will fly, exhausted, till my will is strong enough.
Gravity. Words are fallinʼ.
A novel’s first words,
a long-lasting research.
Vibrations in the thick, humid air.
A voice rises up, white and floating, in the artificial light,
while the blue bar takes with itself these irreplaceable moments.
A guitar chord, G major,
a gospel choir, looking for a spirituality that doesn’t exists,
while observing the darkness in the abyss, where I will fall, never ending.
Friends that come and go, like shadows blinded by summer,
empty words with no meaning,
dead souls’ stunned faces.
Sand under my shoes, the artist’s delirium.
An agitation without ending,
the trembling feeling watching the blank page.
beauty comes from across the screen,
without touching, day after day.
A spar, a prison with a window in the corner.
You and me.
The perfect circle, torn apart by life, by snow,
the street that goes on pitiless till the end of times,
society that destroys itself,
humans, that repeat their mistakes once again, the terror, blood.
Stab him! Stab him and bathe your hands in his blood!
He loves you more than ever, he’ll die for you, he wants to do it.
Drown him. Tie him up and drown him alive, choke your feeling.
The perfect day, dreams enclosed in a moment,
seconds that won’t never return,
time’s inevitability, existence’s shortness.
I’m already in the coffin waiting for the judgement,
the shadow of the End looms over.
Prickly people, do you get enraged for a missed celebration?
In the meantime all the rest burns out! And you attack, you like to be mean, you like to be bitter.
To suffer like this for the artifice of human life, for the artifice of immortality.
Run, run, explode, connect yourself, quick! Fast!
Elegy of slowness.
Elegy of solitude.
Elegy of the blue of sky, of starlight, pieces of infinite that drill the dark veil,
the fire cracking in the dead of the night.
Elegy of madness. Elegy of freakiness! Be freak! What’s the meaning to normality?
I will always be a shadow, a resenting soul.
I will always look for a security that doesn’t belong to me, I will lose myself in the dreams of a life.
Bomb me with your words!
Save me with a cuddle.
I observe the kindness of the injustice,
the malice laughter on the faces of people don’t understand its valor,
human nature turning against itself,
the artificial system, the ice age.
A gigantic wave in the nordic sea.
The love that remains, that make mountains crumble down,
without love, without life, cities that worship flesh,
cathedrals made of rotten human corpses, ants that exult in their stink
Dream, a majestic dream,
the path that leads to light, through the trees.
The delicate touch of your hand,
you, your face surrounded by the Sun,
me, delighted by the beauty of your Being,
I finally know that my sentiment is legitimated.
Here, at the end of all things, I know that I can love like everyone else,
even if you cried on my shoulder, even if my loving makes sad,
even if the peak becomes steep,
holding the hand of the Star I know that there’s no gender for this feeling.
Lay with me on the humid ground, let’s get dirty before the ending of the day,
kiss me while you cry tears of joy,
while we own something that the Others won’t never understand.
“I exist”. I’ve fought for this.
Canada, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Sweden, a midsummer night’s dream,
the people I love.
A flight over hopes that crush against life’s glass wall.
The cry of who doesn’t have anything,
the empty bowl of the boy that begs me for a coin, me, turning and walking by,
system’s artificial perfection, swallowing us in its fiction,
your will to trap happiness, nature’s purity.
I float high, towards the enormous blue sky, towards the cosmos, the absence of gravity,
don’t you want to slow down for a while? Understanding our reality, what’s the meaning in shooting against me, jail me, cry on me, throw out your repulsion, cry, take back, rape, kill, hit with stones, choke, squeeze?
Above me, Past Myth’s weight remains, words that won’t ever get old,
dreamers, wonderful crazy people!
Being isolated isn’t easy, no one understands the obsession about that freedom that everyone is certain to have.
They sell their souls, dead hearts given up to immortality, shot through a tunnel that seems without an exit.
I wait patiently for the day when I’ll be able to smile,
when I’ll be able to stop folding paper, to count to five, to listen to your threats, to face the Demon that dwells in my head.
Higher, between the evening lights, glacier’s glare, twilight’s red shade. Higher, in the deadly silence of the clouds, I become poorer and smaller, hiding in nimbus’ basalt,
observing Gaya’s tendons stretch amid sky’s carousel,
hugging your profile, wishing to touch you once again,
melting in a freedom that the others, locked on the ground, can’t even imagine.


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Constant fibs can ruin relationships, jobs and social life
That consequence can lead to failed relationships, lost jobs, social ostracism and, in extreme cases, incarceration.
Even faced with those negative outcomes, many people see nothing wrong with lying. They will even lie about their lies.
It's a trait that starts early in life.
'It's highly unlikely to have an adult start lying,' said family therapist and Lori Iezzi, whose practice in Greensburg specializes in children and family.
She has counseled youngsters who begin lying at a very early age.
'It worries parents when it starts at age 3 and they wonder where it's going to lead to,' she said. 'But children don't develop the concept between truth and lying until they are 6 or 7. When I work with families, I tend to look at what's going on in the family system and within the child's peer group, and then I target the behavior.'
Experts have a number of theories about why children start to lie.
Douglas Ramm, a Greensburg psychologist who has worked with juvenile offenders for 25 years, believes parents play an important role in a child falling into 'habitual lying.'
'Pathological lying is a misnomer,' he said. 'If you are talking about somebody who is a pathological liar, like part of a sociopathic personality disorder, then the dynamics of what goes into that are a little complex. But there are a lot of people who are habitual liars who are not sociopaths.'
Habitual lying, he said, is a moral issue, a matter of choice that typically begins when a child is able to benefit from telling a lie. Getting away with it is a positive reinforcement.
'It can be that parents don't want to deal with these issues,' Ramm said. 'They may operate on the assumption that their child would never lie, that the child is a good kid who would never do anything bad. Or the parent doesn't want to deal with the issue because in contemporary society, there's an attitude that there's nothing wrong with lying.'
He attributes that sentiment to social changes that started in the 1960s and in the 'advent of psychology and psychiatry as ways of making sense of human behavior.'
Before that, he said, 'we were pretty much operating on human nature that came from Judeo-Christian tradition. Within that approach, you looked at behavior in terms of what was right or wrong. One of the effects of moving toward looking at behavior in terms of normal or abnormal is that you fail to recognize that behavior has consequences, some of them good and some of them bad.'
Ramm tells his young clients that they hurt other people when they lie.
'But the bottom line of lying is that the person who is typically injured most is the person who is lying because people perceive them as liars and are unwilling to take anything they say as the truth,' he said. 'People give up on them.'
Yet adolescents often react with a 'smirk or outright laugh' when he connects their lies with morality.
'It's become evident to me that they view these concepts of right and wrong as something similar to Santa Claus or the Easter bunny,' Ramm said. 'At some point in their childhood, they decided that it was just as unrealistic to believe these things as it was to believe in Santa Claus, and they therefore just don't make use of the concept of right or wrong in their decision making process.'
Bill Hahn, a psychologist with Behavior Management Counselors of Greensburg, believes that lying is both a moral and mental health issue.
'I see a lot of children and adolescents who try to protest and get out of their lies even when it is so obviously blatant,' he said. 'There can be a lot of reasons for that, but I think that most adolescent liars just don't have a sense of responsibility. They don't have a good understanding of cause and effect.'
Laura Hawkins, executive director of the Mental Health Association in Westmoreland County, considers the behavior difficult to define.
'It can show up as one of the symptoms of a borderline personality disorder where the person can experience dissociative patterns in the kind of information that they provide to people,' she said. 'They can create a kind of scenario around relationships, dramas about those relationships that are sometimes done by distorting the truth.'
Dr. Vito DonGiovani, director of psychology at Torrance State Hospital, sees lying present in a variety of behaviors.
'The narcissistic person believes that he is much better than everybody else and no one can tell him anything,' he said.
Because that attitude may be rooted in low self-esteem and feeling unloved, the person often acts as if he has all the answers.
'To keep that alive, he has to lie,' DonGiovani said. 'It's a grandiose feeling of self-importance.'
Pretenders invent careers, degrees, families and false backgrounds. They may be real professionals who distort their qualifications, or they may be able to pull off roles, like being a doctor or teacher, with no qualifications at all.
'There's also the antisocial personality disorder, the bad guys who think the rules don't apply to them,' DonGiovani said. 'Telling the truth doesn't matter. They think, 'Whatever gets me what I want.''
Their reckless behavior may put them behind bars where the truth still isn't important. 'Prisons are full of people who didn't do the crime,' DonGiovani said. 'It's always someone else.'
He believes that patterns of lying may originate when children try to avoid conflict with their parents. By lying, they can get what they want, which is often love and approval. They may think, 'I have to lie for Mom to love me.'
One positive way that parents can deal with those needs is to acknowledge the lie without causing a major conflict.
'Parents can ask, 'What do you think I believe about that?' and then explain what they do believe,' DonGiovani said. 'And the child should still get the consequences of the lie.'
Then, he added, the parent should assure the child, 'I can love you even though I don't trust you.'
Changing patterns of lying is not easy, DonGiovani noted, because there's usually very little guilt involved.
'When most people lie, they get a feeling of remorse and can deal with their lying,' he said. 'But compulsive liars don't have the guilt that can force them to change. They lose relationships, they lose jobs and they just move on.'
He compared the likelihood of their recovery to that of an alcoholic who 'has to hit bottom' before going straight.
'They have to face what happens and one day make the decision to stop lying,' DonGiovani said.
Hahn thinks people can be 'taught not to' lie. 'I have to believe that all behavior is changeable,' he said.
Ramm contends that a liar first has to understand that the behavior is connected with what's right and what's wrong.
'From a traditional psychiatric and psychological point of view, unless (lying) gets properly framed as a moral issue and something self-defeating, the likelihood of turning it around, in my opinion, is minimal,' he said.

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The North Texas Food Bank’s Response to Covid-19
Like the rest of the world, the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) is closely monitoring the evolving Coronavirus situation and following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), our national partner Feeding America and local entities including the Dallas County Health & Human Services (DCHHS).
The Food Bank is considered critical infrastructure and will remain open. In order to safely meet the need for food assistance in our region, the Food Bank received support from the Texas National Guard and is currently working with displaced hospitality workers paid by a special fund called Get Shift Done.
Meeting the Need in North Texas
NTFB has temporarily suspended most traditional volunteer shifts and is working with the displaced hospitality employees to create family meal boxes. This partnership provides income thanks to Shiftsmart and a fund at the Communities Foundation of Texas called Get Shift Done while also providing a critical service to the community.
Texas National Guard
We have seen the need for food assistance grow. On Sunday, April 5, more than 250 members of the National Guard were deployed at the North Texas Food Bank.
Guard members were on-site for over two months helping in four areas:
- Production line: 120 working on the production floors, creating family meal boxes for distribution.
- Mobile Pantry distribution: 30 deployed to expand our growing Mobile Pantry Distributions.
- Warehouse and Supply Chain: 42 guard members were trained on our warehouse operations and 12 were allocated as drivers.
- Partner agency support: 60 were available to assist our partner agencies who are also in need of support.
- The efforts by the Texas National Guard enabled the Food Bank to create at least 60,000 family meal boxes each week and making these available for our Partner Agencies and via our Mobile Pantry program.
- By shifting to a box model, we created a no to low touch distribution model that is safer for our partners and the neighbors they serve.
- The Food Bank enabled our Partner Agencies to create their own food boxes by providing them with boxes and food items.
- NTFB opened a temporary warehouse space in Plano to help meet the need for boxed food. This warehouse was also staffed by members of the Texas National Guard.
- The Mass Care Task Force is now active. This is a collaborative partnership between NTFB, The Red Cross, The Salvation Army and Volunteer Now.
- We are working with local school districts to ensure continuity of our Food 4 Kids program as well as the School Pantry program.
- Our team worked with the City of Dallas to prepare and deliver snack/hydration kits for the homeless who were moved to the Convention Center.
- Our Mobile Pantry program is now exclusively a drive-thru model to create a “low touch” experience.
Key Statistics & Information
- In FY20, NTFB served a total of 97 million nutritious meals. We served 20 million more meals than in FY19 to those in need and exceeded our year's goal of 80 million.
- For FY20, NTFB distributed 34M+ pounds of produce, which was 37% of our total gross distribution.
- For the month of July, NTFB received almost 12.5 million pounds of food and distributed more than 10.7 million pounds.
- Texas has secured approval to extend SNAP benefits that are up for renewal in July and August by another six months. Still, a 15% increase in SNAP benefits will help families buy more food.
- Nationally, from March 1 to May 24, Feeding America distributed an estimated 1.3 billion meals to people facing hunger in the United States.
- As of the week of July 27, NTFB has hosted more than 165 COVID-19 disaster relief mobile distributions.
Precautionary Hygiene Measures
Right now, the food bank's volunteer and distribution efforts are continuing thanks to the support of the workers employed thanks to the Get Shift Done fund. Additional precautionary hygiene measures and contingencies are in place to maintain the health and wellness of our staff, Get Shift Done team members as well as those that receive our food:
- We are taking necessary measures to ensure all employees, visitors, and persons served who are experiencing any symptoms of illness stay home and avoid contact
- Prior to each shift NTFB staffers and anyone entering our building will have their temperature checked
- We are creating additional spacing between the groups working on the volunteer floor
- External facing staff have been provided with sanitizing kits to safeguard themselves and the public
- We are following the recommendations of the CDC to help stop the spread of germs and have posted their guidelines in public areas as a reminder for those coming to the Food Bank
- All team members will be prompted to wash hands before and during shifts and we will also have gloves available
- Hand sanitizing stations are available across the volunteer floor
- Tools used during each shift will be cleaned after each shift
- High touch surfaces will be cleaned frequently
In addition, we are also providing the following suggestions to employees, volunteers, partners and other supporters:
- If you feel ill, stay home and avoid exposing others
- Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds and help young children do the same. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe
- Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash. If you do not have a tissue, use your sleeve (not your hands)
For additional information and resources please visit the CDC website or call the Texas Department of State Health Services hotline: 1-877-570-9779 with hours: 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Monday - Friday.
Thank you for your continued support of the North Texas Food Bank, we are committed to serving our neighbors in need.

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26 March 2013
Today marks a key milestone in Gatwick’s on-going transformation, as the airport officially opens its new £6.4 million pier-served A380 stand. To celebrate the occasion, Emirates - the world’s largest A380 customer - will today operate a one-off A380 aircraft into Gatwick, giving stand 110 on pier six the final stamp of approval.
The new stand now enables Gatwick to accommodate A380s – the world’s largest commercial aircraft flying today – on scheduled services in the future. As the airport continues to focus on making the most of its available capacity in the short and medium term, scheduled A380 services would provide more seats per plane and support growth in passenger numbers.
The Emirates A380 aircraft, which stands at over 24 metres high and has a wing span of nearly 80 metres, arrives as a scheduled passenger flight from Dubai. Despite its size, the Emirates A380 is the quietest long range aircraft and is known for its fuel-efficient technology.
Gatwick, which currently welcomes 34 million passengers per year, has around 25 per cent spare capacity and is forecast to grow its passenger numbers to around 38 million by 2020. As the world’s busiest single-use runway, increasing passenger numbers on board flights is a key element of the airport achieving its targets for growth going forward.
Scheduled A380 services would also support the progress Gatwick has made in attracting new direct long-haul routes, particularly to key emerging markets such as China, Vietnam and Indonesia. With a range of around 15,700km, the A380 is ideal for long-distance travel. The completion of the new stand therefore offers existing Gatwick airlines, as well as new airlines, the opportunity to serve more long-haul destinations going forward.
Guy Stephenson, Chief Commercial Officer, said: “Gatwick is delighted to officially open its A380 stand today, marking an important milestone in the development and growth of the airport as a world-class aviation facility.
“The new stand is a symbol of the major changes that have happened at Gatwick under new ownership. The fact we can now offer current and future airlines a pier-served facility for A380 aircraft demonstrates the scale of ambition we have for the future of Gatwick as we continue on our journey to compete and grow.”
Laurie Berryman, Emirates Vice President UK, said: “As the largest A380 operator in the world, it is a historic moment to see one of our A380s use the new Gatwick stand for the first time at the official opening. It shows once again that Emirates is the go-to airline when it comes to the A380 aircraft.
“We’ve always said that the A380 is the future of air travel, and this investment by Gatwick endorses our vision for the aircraft and its capabilities. The new stand here at Gatwick follows the launch of Concourse A in Dubai, the world’s first purpose-built A380 concourse.
“We consider Gatwick as a key hub within the Emirates network and are confident that the investment they have put in place today will provide passengers with an ever improving level of service for years to come.”
About the project
Apron and stand modifications
Internal pier, airbridges, node and fixed link
Modifications to the pier to manage the aircraft size and volume of passengers included:
Emirates airline operates 112 non-stop flights per week from the UK to Dubai. In Dubai, passengers can connect to Emirates’ global network, which spans 132 destinations across six continents in 77 countries.Emirates offers an award-winning service with multi-cultural cabin crew, state-of-the-art ice inflight entertainment, complimentary onboard food and drinks including alcohol, generous checked baggage allowances (30kg Economy Class and 40kg Business Class); complimentary Chauffeur-drive for Business Class within a 70-mile radius; use of a (shared) airport lounge; lie-flat seats in Business Class.
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Gatwick Airport is the UK’s second largest airport and the most efficient single-runway airport in the world. It serves more than 200 destinations in 90 countries for around 38 million passengers a year on short and long-haul point-to-point services. It is also a major economic driver for the South-East region, generating around 21,000 on-airport jobs and a further 10,000 jobs through related activities. The airport is 28 miles south of London with excellent public transport links, including the Gatwick Express. Gatwick Airport is owned by a group of international investment funds, of which Global Infrastructure Partners is the largest shareholder.
In its December 2013 interim report, the Airports Commission included London Gatwick and Heathrow on its shortlist of potential locations for a new runway in the UK. Expansion at Gatwick will best meet the UK’s aviation needs for the future, can provide the greatest economic boost with the least environmental impact, and a new runway can be operational by 2025. For further information, see: www.gatwickobviously.com
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
I don't know about Bachmann, but I can tell you I made the opposite journey. Voted for Carter in 1976, for John Anderson in 1980. I cannot even say that, when I voted for Reagan in 1984 that I did so with great enthusiasm; it was much later that I realized the breadth of his intelligence. But I was attracted to Friedman and Margaret Thatcher earlier, and given the disastrous fiscal policies proposed by Mondale the vote for Reagan that time was not hard.
A MinnPost reader stumbled on the fact that Clark was a former Repub and asked me to check it out. Sure enough, she grew up in a Republican family and voted Repub as a young adult, including for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (ouch, don�t tell Walter Mondale).
Of that 1984 vote for Reagan, Clark says: �If I could take that back, I would. He [Reagan] was kind of the nail in the coffin� of her Republican sympathies.
During the Reagan years, she says, she saw her ancestral party abandoning the needs of families and failing to walk the walk on fiscal responsibility. She�s been a Dem ever since and served as deputy chair of the DFL. (An aside, because I happen to recall it, Rep. Bachmann was a Democrat as a young adult, campaigning for Jimmy Carter. The Reagan years turned Bachmann into a conservative Republican and Clark into a liberal Democrat.)
But I don't get how Clark claims the Republicans "abandoned the needs of families" and "failed to walk the walk of fiscal responsibility." The balanced-budget high-spending Republicans of the east coast are not those of her previous homes in Illinois and Virginia. Did not Reagan's foreign policy precipitate the fall of the Berlin Wall, saving us $100 billion in defense spending? The ones who squandered the peace dividend came after the fall of the USSR.
Did the budget balance that came at the end of the Clinton years come thanks to Clinton, or thanks to the 18 year run of good economic performance that came after the 1981-82 recession (with a small pause in 1990?) Didn't all that income help families? It took me a long time and perhaps some time with Robert Bartley's The Seven Fat Years to understand what Reagan had wrought. Clark failed to learn the lesson.
Clark is undoubtedly aware of the difficulties of running as a pro-choice DFLer who voted for many tax increases and a healthy stealth pay increase through per diems (you'll note I've never removed this from the blog sidebar.) First Ringer highlights the uphill fight Clark faces; even if Bachmann is a lightning rod for liberals, her district has a pretty substantial base of people who will vote for her, and gets an IP candidate that last time tanked Tink. If in a DFL highwater year with Obama at the top of the ticket Bachmann can get 49% even after sticking her foot and calf in her mouth on national TV (to the extent MSNBC can be called that), it's hard to see how Clark finds a plurality.
And the side benefit is, SD 15's state senate seat is now up for grabs unless Clark reverses field or should lose the endorsement to Dr. Maureen Reed. The latter is the longest of long shots; the only way Clark doesn't get the DFL endorsement is if she decides her party has dressed her up just to carry her up to the volcano, and declines to be tossed in.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
It has been just over one month since the Governor announced he was ending negotiations and would go it alone on budget cuts. We thought it was unwise then and it remains so now to do budgeting behind closed doors. Unallotment is meant to be a scalpel, not an ax and it is meant to be used at the end of the two-year budget cycle, not the beginning. It is for unanticipated budget shortfalls, not ones created by vetoes and a refusal to negotiate.This is wrong on at least two levels. First, the DFL legislature had in fact created the budget in private, asking next to no help from either the governor or the Republican caucus. It did so on May 8, and then did so on the last night of the legislature, passing a bill barely by midnight. It is rather rich for Clark to argue that the governor will go it alone when they did not take his wishes into account (something Rep. Gene Pelowski understood.) Gary Gross is correct in saying that Clark and her colleagues assumed they could get Pawlenty into special session, where the pressure would bear down on him as much as them. She is upset that the Governor side-stepped that box.
Second, Clark has misrepresented the nature of the unallotment process. Luckily, a review of the process was done only last October. The House Research document on unallotment speaks to the issue of timing:
The statutory duty to reduce allotments is mandatory to the extent needed to make up a projected deficit not solved by use of the budget reserve account. However, the statute does not specify a timetable. The authors presume unallotment would have to occur in time to make up the projected deficit within the biennium. Arguably, the Commissioner of Finance must unallot immediately once the conditions that require unallotment have been determined to exist, and the commissioner has approval of the governor and has consulted the LAC. However, in the past, it has been a common practice of commissioners of finance and governors to wait until the legislature had time to rewrite the budget before unallotting. The requirement to obtain the governor�s approval and to consult with the LAC may imply that the commissioner has some discretion in the timing of unallotment. (pp. 4-5)The governor notified the legislature of his intention to use the power if he did not receive a plan from them. They chose not to act on that power except to run forward a last-minute bill that had already been vetoed once (and had that veto sustained.)
The Minnesota Supreme Court also spoke on the unallotment process in Rukavina v Pawlenty (684 N.W. 2nd 525 ), finding it constitutional for the Legislature to have ceded that power.
Although appropriation of money is the responsibility of the legislature under Minn. Const. Art. XI � 1, it is an annual possibility that the revenue streams that fund those appropriations may be insufficient to actually realize each appropriation. For that purpose, the legislature, by statute authorized the executive branch to avoid, or reduce, a budget shortfall in any given biennium. Minn. Stat. � 16A.152 does not represent a legislative delegation of the legislature's ultimate authority to appropriate money, but merely enables the executive to deal with an anticipated budget shortfall before it occurs.Indeed, to the extent possible Governor Pawlenty has delayed most unallotments to not take place until July 1, 2010, to both hope for more revenue from an improved economy and to allow the Legislature time to make changes in cooperation with the Executive. The door isn't closed: The governor offers the chance to find a better solution, and makes plain the consequences of not compromising.
Although purely legislative power cannot be delegated, the legislature may authorize others to do things (insofar as the doing involves powers that are not exclusively legislative) that it might properly, but cannot conveniently or advantageously, do itself. (cite omitted). It does not follow that, because a power may be wielded by the legislature directly or because it entails an exercise of discretion and judgment, it is exclusively legislative. (cite omitted). Pure legislative power, which can never be delegated, is the authority to make a complete law--complete as to the time it shall take effect and as to whom it shall apply--and to determine the expediency of its enactment. We conclude that Minn. Stat. � 16A.152, does not reflect an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power, but only enables the executive to protect the state from financial crisis in a manner designated by the legislature.
It isn�t accurate to say that the DFL didn�t submit a balanced budget. It�s accurate, though, to say that the first balanced budget they submitted to Gov. Pawlenty passed the Senate with minutes left in the session. It�s equally accurate to say that the Tax Bill that passed was a hodgepodge bill, filled with a litany of tax increases and spending shifts.And let's not forget that this was trotted out at 10:30pm for passage before midnight in an uncivil manner. Senator Clark should also answer for that clusterfarg.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Using a combination of cuts, federal recovery funds and new revenues it brings the state budget into balance for not only the next two years, but also the two years beyond that. This is something our Governor does not plan to do. Instead he pushes much of our present problems into the next two years. Seemingly he is hoping, and that�s all it is, is a hope, that things will get much better, much sooner than most economists believe. If his hope is misplaced Minnesota will be in even worse financial straits.
I don't think the Obama administration is buying that with their forecast of GDP. CBO, who has panned some of the President's numbers, nevertheless expects real GDP to grow 4% in 2011, 4.1 in 2012. Indeed, the disingenuous part of Sen. Clark's statement is that there are no forecasters saying growth will be weak in 2011, when the next biennium budget begins. �(See the WSJ survey last week, or Blue Chip yesterday.)� Why is Sen. Clark so pessimistic about Minnesota? �Why does she not share the optimism of her party's leader?
I will be dissecting other parts of this letter next week.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
I've posted and spoken on the Final Word about the inability of the DFL leadership in the Minnesota Legislature to come up with a budget plan. I think we're making some headway on this, because today DFL Assistant Leader Tarryble Clark responds that it's too hard for her to figure out a budget:
Perhaps an explanation of the well-established processes the governor and the Legislature follow when creating the budget will help ease the confusion.Not so fast my friend (with apologies to Lee Corso.)
Every two years the governor puts together a budget for the state for the next two years. The governor, his staff, and the staff at the agencies he controls are the only group capable of assembling a complete budget of the size and complexity our state requires.
There are hundreds of people working up to seven months to produce the documents that become our budget.The Legislature's duty is to examine the governor's budget, seek input from the public and accept, reject or modify what the governor is proposing.
First, the budget process does have the governor providing a budget. But what about new governors? How much extra time do they get, given they don't even know they're governors until the first week of November? The answer, according to the Senate, is three weeks. This seven months and a full staff explanation is a canard. If you really needed that long to develop a budget, you would not hamstring new governors with such a short time horizon.
Second, the idea that poor little Tarryl has nobody to help her and her colleagues develop a budget is, to be polite, connerie. The Senate has 211 full time staff members; the House, 249. That's more than four hundred staffers. The Senate has a budget of over $25 million. The House doubled the amount of money it spends on its committee structure. Why does Senator Clark think they are incapable of helping her develop a budget?
Third, Senator Clark has received $4,128 in interim per diem payments which means since the end of the special session last year. Not only was there 211 full time Senate staffers, they had access to 43 days worth of Mrs. Clark ($4,128 divided by the miserly per diem rate of $96.) Her leader, Larry Pogemiller, had 73 days; Tax Committee chair (and DFL gubernatorial candidate?) Tom Bakk, 60. If they did not have time to write a budget, what were they doing that they thought was more important? Do any of them intend to account for these days?
During these "listening sessions" -- and you can still sign up to speak, if you want -- you are probably not going to get answers to the following questions. You should ask them anyway:
- Can you account for the days you spent for which you received interim per diem payments?
- Why is it so hard for legislators to complete a budget when they have large, full-time staffs?
- Why does Minnesota state statute say a new governor has to come up with a budget within seven weeks of entering office, but the leaders of the Senate cannot in seven months? Is it too hard for you? Why?

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text: Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has become a cornerstone of the independent school student’s experience. In classes, co-curriculars, and advisories across our schools, teachers, coaches, and support staff help students become more aware of who they are, what they feel, and how they interact with others. SEL helps schools striving to teach the whole child. Less attention, however, is given to the social and emotional growth and development of those adults who make such learning possible. In Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators, Elena Aguilar addresses this gap. Building on her writing and experience as an instructional and leadership coach, Aguilar focuses on the resilience educators need to "bounce back" from the stressful and emotional work of "being in a helping profession and serving young people in complex organizations [like schools]." In addition to addressing the needs of teachers, her text also pays special attention to school leaders - those working to develop and maintain positive faculty cultures as well as to mentor and evaluate teachers. Ultimately, coupling healthy doses of research and anecdotal evidence with reflective questions and self-assessments, Aguilar presents clear and practical ways for administrators and faculty alike to develop the tools that they need to be their most effective and empowered selves.


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TELIKOU Technologies Co., Ltd was established in 2002. We are focused on the researching and manufacturing of broadcast and stage equipment, can offer both wired and wireless options to carter for different application scenarios. TELIKOU’s leading intercom products are based on international standards and are compatible with Clear-Com and RTS products. TELIKOU is experienced in providing cost-effective audio and video devices for professionals . We are devoted to providing high quality, cost effective products, and user-friendly services to our customers around the world. At present, TELIKOU products are used in more than 90 countries and regions in Europe, America, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Middle East. TELIKOU has developed a variety of products, including: Wired and Wireless Intercom / IFB Systems, Studio, Presidential and Portable EFP Teleprompter, Studio LED Lighting / On Camera LED Lights, Audio Monitors / Audio Mixers.


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You may have heard the saying “I didn’t know my own strength”.
The same can be said for a group of women that prepare to claw their way to make a difference. Happening in your community, Champaign Ladies Amateur Wrestling. Joanna Troutman, The Slice and Julia Pollack, Lil’ Calzonie share more about their upcoming event.
After nearly a year off, CLAW is back in action! Our burst of motivation is largely in part to raise money for nonprofit, social services that primarily serve women and are suffering due to funding cuts from the state and federal governments. CLAW recently participated in a fundraising event for Planned Parenthood at The Accord that raised over $10,000! (more info about that event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1821326011442886/)
CLAW’s next big show is April 7th at The Canopy Club with Kowabunga Kid!, Tara Terra, and DJ Meggie MaRu. All proceeds go to R.A.C.E.S (www.cu-races.org). It’s CLAW’s first show at The Canopy Club, and they hope the larger venue will be more comfortable and provide better visibility for our fans. CLAW has four new wrestlers and all new matchups. It should be an action-packed and fun night for an amazing cause!


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Virtual care has increased in recent years due to advances in technology and the need for remote health-care services. Many health-care professionals have started using virtual care to remotely deliver care to clients. Nurses meet all the BCCNM standards in virtual care settings that apply in face-to-face settings.
What virtual care is and what are my responsibilities when providing it.
Use of title practice standard
BCCNM doesn't have a specific standard for virtual care. As a health-care professional, your responsibilities to meet relevant standards and workplace policies remain unchanged regardless of the way care is provided.
Virtual care is when health-care professionals provide and deliver care to clients using technology. Phone calls, email, video/audio conferencing, and instant messaging are some ways to provide virtual care.
When providing care virtually, act in the best interest of your clients, use your clinical judgment, and follow BCCNM standards and workplace policies to decide the best way (virtual or in-person) to meet client needs. A virtual care assessment does not take the place of an in-person assessment.
In all practice settings, consider:
How can I adapt as virtual care evolves?
A B.C. resident is someone who primarily lives in B.C. When a B.C. resident visits another province or country, even though they may not be physically in B.C., they are still a B.C. resident. A person who lives in another province or country and visits B.C. is not a B.C. resident. For example, a person who lives primarily in Ontario and visits B.C. for a period of time is not considered a B.C. resident for health-care purposes.
Nurses registered in a jurisdiction other than B.C. must hold
practising registration with BCCNM before providing virtual or in-person care to a B.C. resident. For example, an Ontario nurse who works for an online health-care provider must register with BCCNM before they can provide virtual care to a B.C. resident.
Also, you may only act with client-specific orders (virtual or in-person) from a regulated health-care provider licensed to practice in B.C. For example, you can't act with an order from a doctor who is licensed in Alberta.
Nurses registered with BCCNM may provide virtual care to clients outside B.C. if they meet the requirements of the regulatory body in the jurisdiction where the client lives. Each jurisdiction may be different so be sure to check the requirements that need to be met before you provide care.
Before providing care in another jurisdiction, ask:
Does my liability protection cover the services I will be providing? Am I meeting the criteria to be eligible for liability protection in another jurisdiction?
It's strongly recommended that you contact your professional liability protection provider before providing care across jurisdictions, especially if you are providing care outside of Canada.
Robert, a B.C. nurse, works in a cardiac rehab clinic. He conducts many client appointments virtually. His client, Rita, has an appointment scheduled for when she is away visiting family in Nova Scotia. Can Robert provide care to Rita?
Yes. Rita lives in B.C. and is considered a B.C. resident, even though she isn't physically present in B.C. when Robert provides care. Robert contacts Nova Scotia's nursing regulator to find out if there are any conditions he needs to meet before providing care to Rita.
Libby, an NP registered in Alberta, finds the clinic where she works has more B.C. people seeking virtual and in-person care. She is not surprised, as she lives close to the border between Alberta and B.C. Can Libby provide care for these B.C. people?
Libby must first register with BCCNM before providing care to any B.C. resident. She contacts BCCNM and gains a practicing registration before offering her services to people from B.C.
Billie, a B.C. midwife, is at a conference in Toronto. She is also on call for the clinic she works for. Billie gets a call from Sasha, one of the clinic's clients, and sets up a virtual appointment. Can Billie provide virtual care to Sasha from Toronto?
Billie is a B.C. midwife who is providing care to a B.C. client. Even though she isn't physically in B.C., she is authorized by BCCNM to provide care to B.C. residents. Billie also checks with the College of Midwives of Ontario to see if there are any restrictions or requirements she must meet while practicing there.
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Fig. 7.1 Diagram of the first system by Naegel (1977) growing Tilapia and common carp in combination with lettuce and tomatoes in a closed recirculation system
The combination of fish and plant cultivation in coupled aquaponics dates back to the first design by Naegel (1977) in Germany, using a 2000 L hobby scale system (Fig. 7.1) located in a controlled environment greenhouse. This system was developed in order to verify the use of nutrients from fish waste water under fully controlled water recirculating conditions intended for plant production including a dual sludge system (aerobic/anaerobic wastewater treatment). Naegel based his concept on the open pond aquaponic system of the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, in the USA, where excess nutrients from the fishponds, stocked with channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), were eliminated by the hydroponic production of water chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis) (Loyacano and Grosvenor 1973). By including nitrification and denitrification tanks to increase the nitrate concentration inside his system, Naegel (1977) attempted a complete oxidation of all nitrogenous compounds, reaching nitrate concentrations of 1200 mg/L, and demonstrating the effectiveness of the nitrification step. Although the system was stocked at a low density (20 kg/msup3/sup each) using tilapia (Tilapia mossambica) and carp (Cyprinus carpio), the tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) and iceberg lettuce (Lactuca scariola) grew well and produced harvestable yield. These first research results led to the concept of coupled aquaponic systems, in which the plants eliminate the waste produced by the fish, creating adequate growth, demonstrating highly efficient water use in both units. The principle of coupled aquaponics was first described by Huy Tran at the World Aquaculture Conference in 2015 (Tran 2015).
Coupled aquaponic systems do not necessarily use mechanical particulate filtering in the classical sense and keep consistent nutrient flow between the aquaculture and hydroponic units. The main challenge is how to manage the faecal load in the coupled aquaponic system where the plants absorb the nutrients and particulate waste can be removed from the system by filter presses or geotextiles.
The development of modern agriculture, human population growth and shrinking resources worldwide, has promoted the development of coupled aquaponic systems. Since fish farming is considerably more efficient in protein production and water use compared with other farmed animals and since closed systems are largely siteindependent, coupled aquaponic systems have been able to develop worldwide (Graber and Junge 2009), under arid conditions (Kotzen and Appelbaum 2010; Appelbaum and Kotzen 2016) and even in urban settings (König et al. 2016). Most described systems belong to domestic, small-scale and semi-commercial installations (Palm et al. 2018) that are driven by hobby aquarists, enthusiasts or smaller start-up companies. New research results, summarized in this chapter, demonstrate both the potentials and constraints regarding the continued development of these systems into commercial aquaponics, being capable of making a significant contribution to future food production.


Manchester United Scouts Paying Close Attention to German International – Report
By Adrian Back | October 31, 2012 10:53 PM EST
Manchester United are keeping a close eye on the progress of Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Lars Bender after a string of impressive performances for club and country.
Joachim Loew handed Bender his first international cap just over a year ago when he came on as a substitute against Poland and he has gone on to impress, making numerous appearances at Euro 2012.
Despite normally being deployed in the centre of midfield he was used as a right-back throughout the European Championships in the summer and even scored when playing in that position in the final group game against Denmark.
Bender has started eight games for Leverkusen this season, particularly impressing last weekend as he helped the side gain a 2-1 win over bitter rivals Bayern Munich, inflicting a first defeat on Jupp Heynckes' team this season.
The Mail has reported that Bayern Munich attempted to sign Bender in the summer, but Leverkusen sporting director Rudi Voeller did not want to let one of his star players join their great rivals.
The 23-year-old has played more than 100 games for Leverkusen since joining from 1860 Munich in the summer of 2009, having first come to prominence when helping the Germany Under-19 side with the 2008 European Championships.
Manchester United have continually been linked with numerous midfielders after a summer in which many people questioned why Sir Alex Ferguson spent the majority of his transfer fund on improving his forward options by signing Robin van Persie.
Ferguson does have a number of options in midfield, however, with Paul Scholes coming to the end of a long and successful career it is likely that Manchester United will look to buy either in January or at the end of the season.
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This image is an interesting one as it shows us the different probabilities for
the different states when considering whether or not they will get a white Christmas.
This map tells us that the north , north-east and north-western regions have
the higher probabilities of having a white Christmas. Therefore , Maine ,
North Minnesota and Wisconsin in the north-east as well as Colorado , Idaho ,
Washington and Montana in the north-west are between 61 and >90 percent
likely to get snow at Christmas. The southern States such as Texas ,
Florida , Georgia , South Carolina , California and southern Arizona
have a less than 5 percent chance of snow at Christmas.
The northern states are closer to the Arctic Circle whilst the southern are closer to
the Equator , due to this these percentages are highly likely to be valid.

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#reviewoftheweek / The White Buffalo - Love And The Death Of Damnation
Folk, country, and rock all combine to define the White Buffalo's sound, and for years, he's been delivering his Johnny Cash-esque music to us. His latest showcases more of just that. He's a storyteller, and his gritty vocals connect with the listener, providing a truth that many musicians cannot deliver. His subject matter ca"n live in dark places, and his voice and delivery match each of his lyrics. "Modern Times" is the album's first single, and it is an upbeat rocker that echoes several of his previous releases, bringing the listener into familiar territory. "I Got You" features guest vocals from Audra Mae, and showcases his ability to blur genre lines, attaching himself to a variety of musical styles. At the core, the White Buffalo is a folk singer, and what he can do with his voice, clever and poignant lyrics, and an acoustic guitar is a thing of beauty, and virtually unmatched in music today. He's an old soul and a throwback to when music was pure and raw, and this album showcases that incredibly well.

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In a hands-on approach to history education, fourth-grade students from the Bethlehem Area School District had a chance to mold hammer blades from steel and lay stones onto a new wall yesterday at Historic Bethlehem Inc.
Instructed by students in the eighth grade dressed in Colonial garb, the youngsters viewed and participated in a slew of crafts between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The activities, which are open to the public, will run throughout the same time period today for the fourth-graders who did not attend yesterday. Every student in the fourth grade in the district will have a chance to attend.
The younger students transferred among 18 stations along the Monocacy Creek in the 15th annual "Junior Craftsmen Along the Monocacy" program. It is a cooperative project between the school district and HBI from a concept by Jack Waidner, a social studies teacher at East Hills Middle School.
The students-turned-teachers worked for about six weeks to prepare 10- minute presentations on the subjects of their choice, said Donna Reemsnyder, project director for educational programming at HBI.
In the beginning, she said, the novice instructors were a little nervous, but as the day went on, they developed more confidence.
Two new crafts introduced this year were bonnet-making and quilting, Reemsnyder said.


Long-Dormant Whale Sells $2.3 Million Worth of BNB Amid SEC Lawsuit on Binance
In a surprising turn of events, a crypto whale has recently sold a substantial amount of Binance Coin (BNB) valued at $2.3 million. This sale comes just a week after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused BNB and nearly 20 other tokens of being unregistered securities.
According to blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain, the whale sold 10,000 BNB at a price of $230 per token, resulting in a total of $2.3 million. The whale’s wallet still holds 15,000 BNB, equivalent to $3.5 million.
1/ A whale that has been dormant for 2 years sold 10,000 $BNB ($2.3M) at $230 today.
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) June 12, 2023
It’s worth noting that this particular whale had purchased 110,000 BNB on the SafeMoon platform two years ago for $47.5 million. Over time, the whale sold a significant portion of the tokens, retaining 25,000 BNB for the past two years. Lookonchain’s tweet shed light on the whale’s previous activities, stating that the whale initially acquired 10 BNB on SafeMoon, which then transformed into 100 trillion SafeMoon tokens. Eventually, the whale sold most of the SafeMoon tokens for approximately 110,000 BNB at the peak of the price.
The awakening of this whale is taking place against the backdrop of the U.S. regulatory agency’s lawsuit against Binance, Binance US, and its founder CZ for alleged securities law violations. As a result, the price of BNB, the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has dropped by over 22% in the past seven days and is currently trading around $233.
In addition to the legal troubles, investors are also facing selling pressure from approximately $220 million worth of BNB. This is due to a hacker who used BNB as collateral on the Venus Protocol lending platform during the BNB Bridge hack in October 2022. When the price of BNB falls to $219.76, the hacker’s 924,821.42 BNB will be liquidated.
To mitigate the potential damage to BNB, the BNB Chain and Venus Protocol projects have devised a plan. The BNB Chain team will act as the sole liquidator for the 924,000 BNB and will execute the liquidation in stages to prevent a sharp decline in the token’s price. However, the negative news could still impact investor sentiment and trigger a wave of selling within the community.
The SEC lawsuit against Binance and its competitor Coinbase has cast a shadow over the market and prompted an outflow of funds from the exchanges. According to cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen, more than $2.5 billion and $112 million have been withdrawn from Binance and Binance US, respectively, in the past seven days.
The ongoing legal battle and regulatory uncertainty surrounding Binance and other tokens have created a challenging environment for investors. The market remains on edge as they await further developments and assess the potential impact on the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem.
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Tesla Motors (TSLA -2.44%) made huge waves in the market recently as it announced it plans to build the world's largest lithium-ion battery factory. While this multibillion-dollar investment will definitely have a profound impact on the Tesla's manufacturing capacity, it will also hopefully help bring down the costs of lithium-ion batteries. That reduction in costs will also have a major impact on not just Tesla, but SolarCity (SCTY.DL), which will certainly benefit, too.
With the distributed solar space becoming a little more crowded with utility giants like Exelon (EXC 0.93%) and NRG Energy (NRG -1.06%) providing options of their own, SolarCity needs a way to differentiate itself from the rest. Find out how the move by Tesla could actually be that needed spark by tuning into the video below.


text: Low vitamin D levels have been shown to be associated with primary hyperparathyroidism, but it is unclear whether vitamin D deficiency may be an etiologic factor in the development of primary hyperparathyroidism. To investigate this, we compared preoperative vitamin D levels of patients undergoing surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism with those of patients undergoing surgery for benign thyroid disease. With Institutional Review Board approval, data were collected prospectively on patients undergoing parathyroidectomy or thyroidectomy by one surgeon between March 2006 and July 2011. Patients were excluded if they underwent simultaneous thyroid and parathyroid surgery, had secondary or tertiary hyperparathyroidism, if no preoperative vitamin D level was measured, or if they took vitamin D supplements. Inclusion criteria were met by 219 patients who underwent parathyroidectomy and 186 patients who underwent thyroid surgery. Patient age, sex, race, and preoperative vitamin D levels (vitamin D 25-OH; normal, 32 to 100 pg/mL) were collected. Statistical analysis was performed using linear regression. Vitamin D levels were significantly lower in the parathyroid group compared with the thyroid group (23.8 vs 28.5 pg/mL; P < 0.001). This difference was also observed after adjustment for age, sex, and race with a mean difference of 4.87 pg/mL (P < 0.001). Statistically significant associations between lower vitamin D levels and patients younger than 50 years (P = 0.048), male sex (P = 0.03), and nonwhite race were identified (P < 0.001). Patients with primary hyperparathyroidism are more likely to have lower vitamin D levels than a control surgical population. Further study is needed to determine whether low vitamin D levels may be an etiologic factor associated with the development of hyperparathyroidism.

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text: Cloud computing has become a significant computing model in the IT industry. In this emerging model, computing resources such as software, hardware, networking, and storage can be accessed anywhere in the world on a pay-per-use basis. However, storing sensitive data on un-trusted servers is a challenging issue for this model. To guarantee confidentiality and proper access control of outsourced sensitive data, classical encryption techniques are used. However, such access control schemes are not feasible in cloud computing because of their lack of flexibility, scalability, and fine-grained access control. Instead, Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) techniques are used in the cloud. This paper extensively surveys all ABE schemes and creates a comparison table for the key criteria for these schemes in cloud applications.


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The Administration’s FY16 Budget Request
On February 2, 2015, the Administration released its budget request for Fiscal Year 2016. The $54.8 billion International Affairs request is 7.7% more than current spending, similar to the rest of the discretionary budget request. It includes $47.8 billion in base funds, plus $7 billion in funding for Overseas Contingency Operations, for a total of $54.8 billion. USGLC’s full analysis of the International Affairs Budget request can be found here.
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Did You Know?
The entire International Affairs Budget is a mere 1% of the total federal budget.
See how the International Affairs Budget helps strengthen our economy.
The International Affairs Budget leverages just over one percent of our overall budget to support critical development and diplomacy programs around the world. Programs funded by the International Affairs Budget create jobs here at home by opening new markets to American businesses and protect our national security by fighting terrorism and preventing conflicts before they start. This efficient investment also staffs all U.S. embassies overseas, fights pandemic disease, provides emergency response after natural disasters, implements agriculture programs to promote stability and prevent hunger, saves millions of lives with HIV/AIDS medications and provides essential good governance assistance to newly emerging democracies.


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Persecution in Turkey
Turkey is one of the largest unreached nations in the world, with less than one percent of the Turkish population identifying as Christian. The already small Christian church has experienced social oppression, persecution, and fear of sharing the gospel since it’s predominantly a Muslim region. Recent changes in government have seen the decline of the old secular party of Ataturk and the ascent of the Islamic regime. This has gone to further the difficulty of sharing the gospel in the region and has been causing security concerns among the missionary community.
Horizons’ History in Turkey
Horizons short term mission teams have served in Turkey dozens of times since 2014, and on each trip, the Lord softens the soil and opens more avenues to reach the hearts of the Turkish people as well as the over 2 million Syrian refugees that have settled in the country. Horizons established local partnerships as well as a lighthouse in 2016 through an ongoing partnership with another missions organization. This lighthouse/church congregation has baptized several new believers in 2018 and is not only reaching families close to its central location in the city, but the frequent attendees are reaching out to the villages in the region and seeing new people coming to Christ.
March Mission Trip
In March of 2019, a Horizons mission team boldly shared the gospel in one of Turkey’s largest cities. Many cities in Turkey have a rich Biblical history that still reflects the Roman era and the Ottoman Empire with its unique architecture.
During this past trip, our team had the opportunity to share the gospel and visit with over 65 households, in support of another ministry. Many of the families they interacted with were Kurdish. The Kurds are a distinct ethnic group and one that has been persecuted often in the Middle East. There are about 10-15 million Kurds in Turkey, and since WWI, the situation for them has not always been an easy one as a minority group. Despite many hardships, the Kurdish people have been very receptive to the gospel. We need to be praying for the Kurds in their difficulties as well as for Christ to continue to capture their hearts.
God Hears the Prayer of Kurdish Family
One particular Kurdish family our team met was thrown out of their house. They contacted a friend who was a believer seeking help. Their friend knew of an apartment next to her house that was looking for renters, but the owner was not going to rent it to any Kurds. So, she called her pastor to inform him of the situation, and the Kurdish man said to our team if the pastor prays to God about allowing his family to rent out the apartment, and the owner changes his mind, then he will read the Bible. Well, sure enough after the pastor prayed, the apartment owner decided to change his mind and allow the Kurdish family to move in after all.
Both the husband and wife decided to follow Jesus shortly after this and are being followed up with, by a nearby pastor. In total, seven people decided to give their lives to Jesus throughout the entire trip!
Hopes and Prayers for the Future of Turkey
Testimonies like this are driving us to continue sending teams to Turkey and to pray often for the growth of the church there. Today many ministries and churches are working among the Syrian refugees and the Kurdish people in Turkey even though the situation is difficult, and we pray for an increase in these ministries. Another big prayer need is for more missions specifically to the Turkish people. As we have mentioned above, the situation in the country has made it difficult for ministry among the Turks.
We are encouraged in the knowledge that historically Christianity has thrived and grown under persecution, as we have seen over the last decade with the booming underground church in Iran. As new opportunities arise in Turkey, Horizons would love to foster a revival of disciples making disciples by establishing further local partnerships and lighthouses through our strategic 1000 Lighthouses initiative.
Regional needs like this are the inspiration behind Horizons’ Prayer for All Nations center where staff and other local Christians gather to pray. We would like to invite you to pray with us for revival in Turkey.


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What Does a Woman with Breast Cancer Look Like?
by Ernestine Nicholson
She may be young
She may be old
We’re all the same, I’ve been told
She may be tall
She may be small
She may be a wife, daughter, and mother
But to her family, there is no other
She may have freckles
She may have a face that is black or white
She may have a face that is quite a sight
She has her fears and has many tears
Well, I guess she looks like me
From the outside
No one can tell
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Ernestine Nicholson is a breast cancer survivor and retired nurse living in Inman, SC.
This article was published in Coping® with Cancer magazine, November/December 2010.


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Bear Trap Canyon is a spectacular drainage encompassing 6,000 acres in the Lee Metcalf Wilderness within the Madison Range. The Madison River, its headwaters in Yellowstone National Park, rages throught the remote, roadless canyon for 9 miles, from Ennis Lake to the Madison River Bridge.
Directions: From Bozeman, drive 9 miles west to Four Corners on Hwy. 191. Continue 20.7 miles west on Hwy. 84 to Bear Trap Road on the left. It is located by the Bear Trap recreational area sign, just before the bridge crossing of the Madison River. Turn left and drive on the gravel road 3.2 miles along the east of the river. The trailhead parking area is at the end of the road.
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by Roger Stanev
The number of clinical trials outsourced by pharmaceutical companies to developing countries has surged since the mid-1990s. Current estimates suggest that 40% of the total number of trials are now conducted in less developed regions of the world, e.g., India, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and Eastern Europe. The situation has raised important questions about the ethics of clinical research, including the question of whether or not such trials are exploitative.
On one side of the debate, some argue that outsourcing is not exploitative because it brings global benefits by allowing pharmaceutical companies to test new drugs more quickly, cheaply and effectively than they can in the U.S. (or other developed countries). It is cited, for instance, that the average cost of running a phase-III clinical trial in developing countries is approximately 70% cheaper than in the U.S., and that this is beneficial because cheaper research leads to cheaper drugs, which would mean more affordable drugs for impoverished populations. Proponents of outsourcing also argue that it transfers resources and expertise to less developed regions of the world while also providing researchers with access to a larger, more genetically diverse population, as well as ‘clean-patients,’ i.e., participants who are less likely to have been treated with other drugs or by other clinical trials.
On the other side of the debate, some argue that outsourced trials are exploitative because these populations are poor, with low levels of literacy, and often powerless to defend their own interests; the trials are exploitative because they exploit the vulnerability of people in the developing world. There is also a concern that, because necessary legal and ethical institutions safeguarding the interests of trial participants are not in place in many of these countries—e.g., less stringent ethical reviews, the under-reporting of side effects, and lower risks of litigation—there is an increased likelihood of research ethical misconduct.
If we suppose, as Emanuel et al does, that “the fundamental ethical challenge of all research with humans is to avoid exploitation”, then it is reasonable to say that our first order of business should be determining whether any outsourced clinical trial is exploitative. (In this case, we should focus on the moral sense of ‘exploitation’ as wrongful or impermissible exploitation.) What makes a clinical trial wrongfully exploitative? Consider accounts of exploitation that appear to give us truth conditions for wrongful exploitation claims, such as: a clinical trial is exploitative if the distribution of risks and potential benefits to trial participants is unfair. For example, if potential trial participants take most of the risks (e.g., possible serious side effects, undue burdens) but little expected benefits (e.g., cannot afford the drug if proven effective), whereas Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) takes little risks but high potential benefits (e.g., high profit margins under low risk), then the trial is exploitative. So, if the drug being tested is not likely to be affordable in the host country or if the health care infrastructure cannot support its proper distribution and use, then it is exploitative. It would be exploitative to ask individuals in a developing country to participate in research, since they will not enjoy any of its potential benefits. But is this right?
Let’s look at a specific case. In the 1990s, GSK conducted clinical trials of a short-regimen of AZT in Uganda. These placebo controlled trials assessed whether lower doses of AZT than those used in rich countries (such as the U.S.) could reduce the rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The existing normal regimen of AZT which was previously evaluated and approved in the U.S. (protocol 076) was deemed too costly for needy African populations. The average cost for the full regimen was over $1K per woman per year, whereas the annual health budget of African countries was under $10 per person—Uganda’s health budget at the time was estimated to be under $3 per person per year.
Even though GSK was taking advantage of the unfair situation in which trial participants found themselves in Uganda (i.e., poor and without routine access to healthcare), GSK could argue that it was not taking unfair advantage of the trial participants per se. They could further argue that, if the pharmaceutical market in which GSK and Ugandans operate is competitive, GSK does not exploit Ugandans if GSK pays Ugandans the ‘market’ price to participate in the trials, and that Ugandan participants should complain to their government representatives, not GSK, if their country cannot afford to pay for the healthcare infrastructure required for its citizens to afford and access the drug’s potential benefits. Moreover, what if GSK wanted to pay for the health care infrastructure required for Ugandans, but said it couldn’t because of alleged highly competitive market GSK finds itself in?
But, in my opinion, this trial was exploitative because the Ugandans were unable to afford and access the drugs they tested. Even if competitive market pressures made it unfeasible for GSK to pay for more, the trial was still exploitative. A clinical trial outsourced to the developing world is exploitative unless the trial’s sponsors provide actual benefits to the vulnerable population, including raising the host country’s health infrastructure baseline—raising it in ways that make the potential drug affordable and accessible to the needy.
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"There are Two Vinicas" Vinica by shrimp56
Vinica Travel Guide: 17 reviews and 49 photos
One is the modern city, the other the historic Roman fortress or "kale", in Macedonian., famous for the terracottas that were discovered there.
I was fortunate enough to visit both on my recent trip to Macedonia. Our guide was a local banker who is a friend of our Macedonian "family."
The Romans came through in the 5th-6th centuries and left a wonderful fortress/city on a hill overlooking the modern town. While it is best known as the place where the wonderful terracotta icons were found, the site itself is well worth a visit.
The terracotta tiles are made from clay from the Vinica region so they are local. See the terracotta tip for more detail.
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Event: Open Dialogue: Decriminalising abortion, the first step in a slippery slope or a timely decision?
Date: Wednesday 19 May 2021
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Zoom; Register online
The Faculty for Social Wellbeing will be organising an Open Dialogue following the recently presented Private Members Bill by On Dr Marlene Farrugia MP.
This debate, ‘Decriminalising abortion’, the first step in a slippery slope or a timely decision?' has been an ongoing national debate but spurned with this decision to engage Parliament in a discussion on this matter.


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The rapper might finally be well enough to return to music after he allegedly suffered a nervous breakdown at the end of 2016.
They took in the new musical “Come From Away” at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
Furness — who is the co-founder of Hopeland — was honored at the UN Women for Peace Association’s annual awards luncheon.
The activist actor has become an investor in LoveTheWild, a brand that makes farm-raised frozen seafood.
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Burn, baby, burn
Why Yukon forest management companies can’t see the forest fire for the trees
BY Rebecca Addelman
Photography by Andy Clark/Reuters
The summer of 2004 was a landmark season in the Yukon. Almost two million hectares of forest—roughly the land mass of Northern Ireland—burned in wildfires across the territory. Unusual, to be sure, but according to biologists and fire experts it is merely a harbinger of things to come, and proof that Canada’s forest management policies have contributed directly to the crippling intensity of recent wildfires.
Prior to the 1980s, the most effective way to fight fire in the bush was to set fire to it. Known as prescribed burns, these government-sanctioned fires did their best to mimic Mother Nature. Mature forests were ignited when the time was right, the ensuing fire was contained and the forest eventually regenerated itself.
The problems started about 20 years ago, when fire-suppression policy in Canada went from eco-friendly to business friendly. It was then that most provinces and territories began leasing Crown land to forest management companies. In turn, the companies would build mills, harvest lumber and employ large portions of forest-dependent communities. These contractors have a keen interest in milling their mature crop—they don’t want to set it on fire. As a result, “prescribed burn” was virtually wiped out of the logging industry’s lexicon. Short-term profit margins won out over the long-term benefits of contained blazes.
With prescribed burns on the decline and forests over-maturing, fire officials are given no choice but to sit back and wait for the inevitable to happen—self-igniting, sweeping forces of nature. And when that does happen, forests are subject to one of two fates: they are coated with punishing quantities of fire retardant or completely levelled.
Neither option is particularly thrilling. In 2004, firefighters dumped more than one million litres of retardant—a chemical and dye mixture—on the Yukon. Though the chemical is billed as environmentally friendly, Al Beaver, the territory’s fire management supervisor, concedes that “in high concentrations, it could be detrimental to small water bodies.”
Reese Halter, an internationally acclaimed conservation biologist, agrees: “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist. Anything human-made is adding unnatural substance into the forest.”
More troubling is the ballooning price tag attached. Dumping retardant means deploying large air tankers, which is expensive. So expensive, that last summer the Yukon spent $21 million on fire suppression, more than three times the $6.5 million it allocates annually to fight fire.
“The answer is prescribed burns,” says Beaver. “Fire can be a destructive agent, but it’s an agent of change.” However, short-sighted logging execs and communities worried about excess smoke continue to ignore the common sense advocates of prescribed burning. Instead, fire officials pounce on every stray spark and keep burning a hole in the fire-suppression budget.
Parks Canada, unfettered by land lease constraints, is beginning to reinstate prescribed burns, and its approach is working. Funds are being freed up and redirected to keep fire away from communities, and diverse forests are growing back at their leisure.
But if provincial and territorial governments don’t follow suit, Halter predicts a grim future for Canada and our logging industry. Generating billions of dollars a year, logging employs about 50,000 people in this country. But with the short harvesting season and Canada’s tendency to clear cut, our forests don’t grow back as quickly as those of our competitors in the US, Australia and New Zealand. Unless we start protecting our forest resources with wiser fire management choices now, we might wake up tomorrow to find fewer jobs and even fewer trees.


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JustSystems, the developer of the popular Japanese word processor Ichitaro, is warning users about a zero-day vulnerability that’s currently exploited by cybercriminals to spread malware.
Security firm Symantec has been monitoring the cybercriminal campaign, which appears to be targeted only at Japanese users, since mid-January.
Symantec reports that a typical attack starts with an archive which contains three files: a modified version of JSMISC32.DLL, a file that’s used by the word processor; a clean Ichitaro document (.jdt); and a malicious DLL which bears a .jdt extension.
When the clean document is opened, the application executes the tampered JSMISC32.DLL file, which in turn launches the malicious DLL file, detected by Symantec as Trojan Horse.
Fortunately, JustSystems has released a patch for the vulnerability exploited by the cybercriminals, so users are advised to update their installations as soon as possible.


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