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MANILA, Philippines – With only 16 months to go until it relinquishes power, the Aquino administration has to “institutionalize” economic reforms that would ensure that the gains it had fostered, so far, would not be reversed, local and foreign business groups agreed on Tuesday, March 3.
Now that the Aquino administration is on its homestretch, a long-term strategy that encourages more investment to diversify the economy is needed to achieve long-term, inclusive growth, the Joint Foreign Chambers (JFC) said at the 4th Arangkada Forum.
“The Aquino administration is now entering the homestretch of its term. There are now only 16 months remaining to institutionalize the much-needed reforms that will ensure that the considerable gains of the last 4-and-a-half years will not be reversed,” Makati Business Club (MBC) Chairman Ramon R. Del Rosario Jr said at the forum.
During the forum, JFC leaders stressed the importance of investment to sustain the current economic momentum.
The JFC is composed of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Philippines, Korean Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, and the Philippine Association of Multinational Regional Headquarters.
Attract more investments
JFC stated that the Philippines has done relatively well in attracting investments in 2014, but this was primarily because it started from such a low base.
“We in the chamber feel that it should be around 10% instead of about 6%. The Philippines is not getting its share of foreign direct investment, particularly among ASEAN countries such as Vietnam,” said Ian Porter, president of the Australian and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce.
The JFC presidents added that restrictions on foreign investments bar the maximum flow of investments. The Constitution restricts foreigners to 40%-ownership of a corporation. The restrictions on mining are also hurting the economy, they said.
Porter said the government should prioritize amending the economic provisions of the Constitution as this is “the absolute key” to attracting the investments required to alleviate poverty.
JFC is not only speaking for itself, but every business organization in the Philippines shares their sentiments, Porter added.
Porter warned though that there is a risk in not diversifying, as some offerings and services of the country’s BPO industry will increasingly decline because of technological advancements.
Porter also added that opening up the mining sector would be an easy way to mitigate this by adding potentially significant revenue to the country’s economy.
“Right now there is only 0.7% generated by mining. It could easily be 5 times than that,” he said.
JFC pointed out that 462 or 74% of the recommendations it announced at 2014’s Arangkada event are being addressed.
The Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) which would comply with the revised Kyoto Convention is due to be enacted this year. But it still has a long way to go, Canadian Chamber of Commerce President Julian Payne said.
The CMTA is set to be approved this year, said Senate President Franklin Drilon who addressed the forum.
The Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) law amendment is also closer to fruition, Payne added.
Payne noted that it has been 20-plus years that the BOT law has been amended thus JFC supports the public-private partnership Senate bill filed by Senator Juan Edgardo Angara on March 3. The measure aims to provide the most appropriate framework to mobilize the private sector to finance, design, construct, operate, and maintain infrastructure projects and services.
In his speech at the forum, Drilon also gave an update on the status of measures supporting businesses.
Drilon shared that in preparation for the ASEAN Economic Community this year, Congress passed in 2014 the measure allowing the full entry of foreign banks in the country.
The creation of the Philippine Trade Representative Office and Department of Information and Communications Technology is also among the Senate’s top agenda, while the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Charter is also set to be amended, he said.
Drilon also assured the JFC that their concerns over the Tax Incentives Monitoring and Transparency Act (TIMTA) are unfounded.
The law will not touch incentives for foreign investors, as it is for transparency – for the public to know the tax expenditures to provide tax incentives to the business sector, Drilon assured.
He also reiterated that the government is working on the rationalization of fiscal incentives bill and assured the foreign business community that it will be in favor of both the public and the private sector, the foreign chambers in particular.
“Let me assure that the Congress is a listening Congress which always has the national interest as our agenda,” Drilon said. – Chris Schnabel / Rappler.com
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Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from May, 2012
Andrew Phelps from Nieman Journalism Lab looks into Chinese micro-blogging platform, Sina Weibo's censorship pattern and offers explanation on why and when tweets are deleted.
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A new visa policy was announced on May 17, 2012 by the U.S State Department which put the Confucius Institute under the spotlight in the Chinese blogosphere. Chinese netizens take the opportunity to ask Confucius to return home and teach the poor Chinese kids instead.
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a feature story showing German photographer Michael Wolf's collection of “Architecture of Density” which reflects the living condition of ordinary Hong Kong people in high-rises.
A campaign to rid Beijing of illegal foreign residents has created controversy in China, with Chinese people expressing widely differing viewpoints on social media. A famous television host has labelled a reporter for Al-Jazeera as 'foreign trash' and invited police to run background checks on the blogger who has criticised his xenophobic remarks.
Again, a Chinese man was brutally killed on May 15 by dipper when he tried to stop his home from being razed by the government-employed demolition team in Heilongjiang province. (Ministry of Tofu has translated the news.)
Jennifer Cheung from China Labour Bulletin introduces how workers in China make use of micro-blog to tell their stories in different artistic forms.
Recently a rich Mainland Chinese man killed three persons (including himself) in a Ferrari car crash in Singapore because of drunk driving. The incident has resulted in anti mainland Chinese sentiment in Singapore, Peter Barefoot from ChinaSMACK translated netizens’ reaction from China.
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words are power
spoken or written
they can form a steel tower
so lofty and flighty
you think you can climb them
then you wake up the next day
and you can’t even find them
how can something so strong in meaning
and beautiful in a verse
cut you so deep that they can make your heart hurt?
why? huh? you say you can’t understand
how words you can’t touch can break a woman?
well let me tell you like this
remember the song that was playing when you had your first kiss?
uh-huh – of course you do
music composed with words live inside of you
they seep into your blood stream
and survive forever in your system
they color up your memories and make your soul perk up and listen
still don’t get it?
still can’t see the vision?
that’s cool, it’s all love
yeah, that’s peace
it’s cool as a fan
and sizzling hot like chicken grease
but just know that we communicate with words
hugs are cool
touches are great
but without words an embrace can dissipate
letters linger, massage and caress
settle in your inner
like birds chill in a nest
so the next time you get close and want to profess your like
remember that your words have a helluva might
they have more strength than you can imagine
it’s like a crowd filled with fans and Common is rapping
they can be hypnotic and leave you in a daze
make you weak, give you hope and sunny up your day
words can also break your world
leave you naked in a desert amidst the dust swirls
but as long as you believe in the power you have within
words will never destroy your spirit or will
because you can rearrange those same words to help you heal
and that’s real!
© 2011 – 2014, TamekaMullins. All rights reserved.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Just when you think you know everything this is to know about one, Taylor Alison Swift, you find out she’s actually Nils Sjoberg.
According to AllMusic.com, Nils and Calvin wrote the tune together.
Taylor’s rep has confirmed to People that, “Taylor Swift wrote ‘This Is What You Came For’ under the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg.”
Calvin confirmed it too.
Currently, the tune is sitting at No. 4 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. But, there’s no word on if Nils is going to give this songwriting thing a go full-time or not.


OPPO Find X3 Pro 5G: four cameras to capture the world in full color
Samsung unveiled the powerful Galaxy S21 at the beginning of the year. In February it was Xiaomi’s turn with the Mi 11. And now it’s Oppo’s turn. The Chinese giant presented the Oppo Find X3 Pro 5G at a virtual event this Thursday. As the competition usually does, with this new flagship, the brand shows its chest in the photographic section. Oppo ensures that the terminal, which has four cameras, is its first smartphone (smartphone) “Capable of capturing and displaying one billion colors.” In Spain it is already available in pre-purchase in two colors – blue and black – for 1,169 euros.
Oppo was founded in 2004, began its internationalization in 2010 and in recent years it has been among the five largest manufacturers in the world. In the last quarter of 2020 it was the fourth brand that sold the most phones in the world, according to IDC. The company is especially successful in the Asian market. In fact, in February 2017 it managed to be the manufacturer of smartphones with more sales in China after surpassing, although for a short time, the giant Huawei.
The design of the Oppo Find X3 Pro 5G It stands out for a camera module somewhat different from that of most of the smartphones in the market. If normally this protrudes as if it were an added piece, in this case it is fully integrated into the rear thanks to a slight curvature. The terminal it has “a smooth texture that repels fingerprints.” On its front, it has a 6.7-inch curved AMOLED screen. Oppo promises that this panel perfectly displays “photos and videos of up to one billion colors.”
“It is impossible to say that we see color in the same way,” said an Oppo employee in the virtual presentation. The company claims to have taken colorblind people into account. Color blindness occurs when there is a problem with pigments in certain nerve cells in the eye that perceive color. People who suffer from it cannot see some colors in the natural way, according to Medline Plus, the service of the US National Library of Medicine The Oppo Find X3 Pro 5G offers tools to enhance and adjust color.
Like other high-end terminals such as the Xiaomi Mi 11 or the Samsung S21, the Mi 11 has a refresh rate that reaches 120 Hz. The refresh rate is the number of times the screen updates the image it shows. per second. Therefore, the higher it is, the animations and scrolling between screens look more fluid. Although the experience is more positive with high refresh rates, more battery is also consumed.
In the photographic section, the device has a 32 megapixel front camera and a total of four rear cameras: an ultra wide angle and a 50 megapixel wide angle (with a Sony IMX766 sensor), a 13 megapixel telephoto lens and a microscopic camera. three megapixel that allows up to 60 increases. The ultra-wide angle camera stands out for “a shallow lens freeform” which is intended to reduce distortion at the edges of photos and videos. “We wanted to give users the ability to bring colors to life, giving them the tools to capture and display one billion colors,” said Maggie Xue, Oppo President Western Europe.
The terminal is compatible with 5G networks and incorporates the latest Qualcomm processor for the high-end: the Snapdragon 888. In addition, it has 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. Oppo says its intention is to make “battery anxiety a thing of the past.” The Find X3 Pro 5G’s battery is 4500mAh and, like its predecessor, it includes 65W fast charging. You can also opt for 30W wireless charging.
Two more ‘smartphones’
At the presentation, the Chinese brand has also unveiled two other somewhat less ambitious terminals: the Oppo Find X3 Neo 5G and the Oppo Find X3 Lite 5G. The Find X3 Neo 5G has a 6.5-inch screen and a 90Hz refresh rate. In addition to a 32-megapixel front camera, it has a 50-megapixel main sensor, a 16-megapixel ultra-wide, a 13-megapixel telephoto lens, and a two-megapixel macro. It also has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor, 12 GB RAM, and 256 GB of storage. Oppo promises to fill the 4,500 mAh battery in half an hour and more than 60% power in just 15 minutes. In Spain this terminal is already available in pre-purchase for 819 euros.
The Oppo Find X3 Lite 5G has a 6.44-inch screen and also has a 90Hz refresh rate. Its front camera is 32 megapixels. On its back, it has four sensors: a 64-megapixel main one, an eight-megapixel ultra-wide angle, a two-megapixel macro and a sensor dedicated to the two-megapixel black and white camera. The terminal has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G processor, 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. Its battery is 4300 mAh and, like its brothers, it includes a 65W charge. This mobile is also available in pre-purchase for 469 euros.


Bridge refurbishment is urgently required in many places – but closures for building work puts pressure on the surrounding infrastructure. A current project in Luxemburg shows that there is an alternative.
Luxemburg, the tiny country in the heart of Europe, has a vibrant, diversified and multifaceted capital of the same name. Luxemburg City is not only a well-known banking and finance center, but also the region’s cultural focus. It is here that everything comes together, for this is the country’s commercial, social, and touristic nerve center. And it is a traffic hub. But this is not all, as it is also a neuralgic spot that depends on traffic systems functioning flawlessly. So what happens when one of the most important traffic arteries linking the Old Town with the European institutions on the Kirchberg Plateau doesn’t live up to the requirements of the current traffic situation? This is now the case with the so-called Red Bridge or “Pont Rouge”, officially known as the Pont Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, a 355-meter-long steel bridge dating back to 1965 that spans the Alzette River and the Pfaffenthal quarter at a height of 74 meters.
Impressive structure, unusual refurbishment
There’s no doubt that the Pont Grande-Duchesse Charlotte is an impressive bridge structure. However, refurbishment is necessary not least because of its severe stressing and to meet the demands on durability and lastingness for the next decades. And this is also a fine opportunity for reviewing its overall concept. The six-lane carriageway will be reorganized into four lanes for car traffic and two for a streetcar so that it can handle the high volume of traffic better and foster the use of public transport. The pedestrian and cycle paths on both sides will be widened and the existing Plexiglas barrier of the railing replaced by a metal grille construction which in addition is illuminated with LED lights.
This is a large-scale and time-consuming upgrade that also has to be performed with moving traffic. Thomas Stihl, Division Manager for systems bridges at SEH, outlines the problem: “Renovating bridges of this size poses major difficulties, and conventional strategies usually result in bridge closure.” It is such situations that call for a very special solution: SPS, the innovative Sandwich Plate System.
SPS – a technology makes its mark
SPS, a composite of steel and a polyurethane core, has been in successful use for about 20 years. The applications cover offshore platforms, ships’ decks, high-rise floor slabs, metro and suburban railroads, and bridges. And that’s by no means the complete list of possible uses. Over the years, the steel-polyurethane-steel sandwich has proven to be an indispensable element in many structural areas. Particularly if it’s a question of sustainability, strength, weight reduction, feasibility, and cost management. And now, in the refurbishment of the Red Bridge in Luxemburg, SPS has yet again demonstrated the potential of the sandwich principle.
Christof Grieser-Schmitz, SPS Project Leader and Head of Infrastructure at BASF, explains the technology: “SPS is not only stronger and less expensive than most other carriageway systems but using SPS makes major reductions in bridge weight possible.” At the same time, the solid polyurethane core audibly diminishes the otherwise usual traffic noise, as there is no longer a resonator typical of steel structures. Polyurethane acts like a damper. In terms of service life, the polyurethane-steel sandwich is decades better than other technical solutions. Michael Kennedy, President of Intelligent Engineering, is convinced of the system’s technological and economic superiority: “It’s taken several years for the idea to get established, but our technology will transform the future of construction.” One thing is certain: In terms of speed, flexibility, durability, and cost-effectiveness, SPS is a revolutionary idea for structural steel engineering that no other material can match.
How long has SPS been around?
At Carleton University in Ottawa, a research project into the development of ice barriers to protect offshore installations in the Arctic Beaufort Sea was initiated in 1993. It was in this context that Stephen Kennedy, the “inventor” of SPS, hit upon the idea of producing a load-bearing composite of steel and plastic capable of withstanding the impacts of ice floes in choppy seas.
What is SPS?
The Anglo-Canadian firm Intelligent Engineering was created to market this idea. Together with BASF, it developed a plastic that, in a single load-bearing element, combines the characteristic advantages of steel structures with the additional physical properties resulting from the marriage of steel plates with plastic. The outcome was SPS, an element of two steel plates sandwiching a solid polyurethane core. This alternative composite material is capable of replacing conventional construction methods that use concrete or steel. Without its inventors’ vision and perseverance, SPS would never have seen the light of day. And modernizing the Pont Rouge in Luxemburg with ongoing traffic flow would never have been possible.
A bridge to the future
Sandwich Plate System (SPS) for Pont Rouge, Luxemburg


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Zimbabwe’s largest seed producer SeedCo narrowed its loss after tax by 27 percent to $5.5 million in the six months to September on increased volumes, reduced finance charges and exchange rate gains.
Group turnover increased by 17 percent to $18.8 million driven by winter cereals and demand for early maize seed in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Botswana.
Finance charges fell by 44 percent, benefitting from aggressive debt collection and access to more cost effective bank facilities in most markets.
Gross margins were lower as price adjustments were failing to keep up with currency devaluation in most markets outside Zimbabwe.
During the period under review, current bank borrowings nearly doubled from $11.7 million to $20.6 million while operating costs increased by 25 percent to $15.6 million.
“The current year presents major challenges for the group mainly from weakening of the currencies as well as erratic rainfall in the major markets in which we operate,” said company secretary John Matorofa in a statement accompanying group results.
He said in the medium to long-term, the group would increase its market share in East Africa with Kenya, Tanzania and DRC all showing signs of growth.
Limagrain — the largest seed company in Europe and the fourth largest in the world — acquired a 30 percent stake in the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) listed group which has operations in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia for $60 million.-The Source

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Justin Bieber A Jinx?
Could Justin Bieber be a curse to sports teams? Some fans think so after a run of bad luck to teams he visits. INSIDE EDITION looks at his track record.
Is Justin Bieber a jinx? It's no joke!
In a recent photo and video he was seen hanging out with members of the New England Patriots football team and the Twittersphere exploded with comments like, "If anyone gets hurt or the Patriots lose a game, it is your fault. You're a living curse."
George Stephanopoulos said on Good Morning America, “Justin Bieber really not getting a break in Boston right now. They really think he's bad luck for the Patriots!"
But why? Consider his history.
Last month, Bieber attended a Bible study with the Pittsburgh Steelers who then lost to the lowly New York Jets! In October, he cheered the New York Knicks basketball team on opening night and they got clobbered by the Chicago Bulls!
Sports fans are notoriously superstitious, as seen in the movie Silver Linings Playbook when Jennifer Lawrence defends herself against a bad luck accusation from fanatic fan Robert De Niro.
Bieber isn't the first celebrity to catch heat for bringing bad luck to a game. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen began dating her husband, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, in 2006. Some blame her for the fact that he hasn't won a Super Bowl since!
Did Katy Perry jinx University of Oklahoma quarterback Trevor Knight with this emotional shout-out last October?
She said, “Trevor Knight, call me!”
Well, his team lost to Texas Christian University, and a few weeks later he was carried off the field with a neck injury.
So take heart Bieber, maybe your luck is about to turn.
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Samsung jumped into the Android-powered point-and-shoot camera market at the end of last year with the release of the Galaxy Camera and now the Korean-based gadget manufacturer seems poised to make the next logical step. According to a new rumor, Samsung is planning to combine its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone with quality digital camera features. The “Galaxy S4 Zoom” (SM-C1010) will purportedly feature a 16 megapixel camera, much like the Galaxy Camera, as well as a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, 8GB of internal storage expandable through microSD card, Bluetooth 4.0, and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with TouchWiz Nature UX. The processor and RAM for the rumored camera phone are unknown at the moment, but we’re hoping to see a package centered around a quad-core chip with 2GB of memory. The Galaxy S4 Zoom is optimistically expected to be released in black and white color options in either June or July.
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Mr. Audun Halvorsen (b. 1978) is State Secretary to Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide, in the Government of Prime Minister Erna Solberg. He has held this position since 2017. Mr. Halvorsen is a member of the Conservative Party of Norway.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Halvorsen was Political Adviser to then Minister of Defense, Ine Eriksen Søreide (2013-17). Before his time in government, he was Political Adviser on defense policy and foreign affairs for the Conservative Party Parliamentary Group. He has also held various party and elected positions for the Conservative Party in Oslo.
Mr. Halvorsen holds a Cand Mag. degree in political science, public law and private law from the University of Oslo, Norway. He served in the Norwegian Army from 1997-98, and he is married, with two children.


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What are the other Names for this Condition? (Also known as/Synonyms)
- Isolated Holoprosencephaly
- Non-Syndromic, Non-Chromosomal Holoprosencephaly
- Non-Syndromic, Non-Chromosomal HPE
What is Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly? (Definition/Background Information)
- Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is a rare developmental abnormality affecting the head and face
- Normally, the brain divides into right and left halves or hemispheres. In Holoprosencephaly, the brain does not divide into two hemispheres, or only does so partially
- Some genetic syndromes, such as Patau syndrome (trisomy 13), are known to cause Holoprosencephaly. In contrast, “Nonsyndromic” Holoprosencephaly pertains only to cases of Holoprosencephaly that do not form a part of a genetic syndrome
- However, the cause of Nonsyndromic HPE are genetic mutations, which may be inherited in an autosomal dominant manner in some cases
- The brain structure condition does not worsen over time, as the baby grows
4 different types of Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly exist, based on the severity of the developmental abnormality. The different types, arranged from most severe to least severe, include:
- Middle interhemispheric variant (MIHV)
Who gets Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly? (Age and Sex Distribution)
- Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly approximately affects, 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 40,000 newborns
- Both, male and female sexes are equally affected
- Some experts believe that race or ethnicity may have a bearing on the incidence of the disorder. However, there are no clear statistics to establish the same
What are the Risk Factors for Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly? (Predisposing Factors)
Potential risk factors associated with Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly include:
- The presence of any family member, sibling, or relative, with this condition
- Pregnant women suffering from diabetes
- Use of aspirin, before or during pregnancy
- Pregnancies, using assisted reproductive technologies
- Early menarche in women
- Maternal age above 35, or below 25 years
- Over 50% of the children with Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly have some form of genetic defects or chromosomal abnormalities
- Exposure to a wide variety of environmental and chemical agents that are responsible for an assortment of developmental growth defects, such as:
- Certain medications and drugs
- Ionizing radiation
- Infectious diseases
- Imbalances during metabolism
- Environmental chemicals and compounds
It is important to note that having a risk factor does not mean that one will get the condition. A risk factor increases ones chances of getting a condition compared to an individual without the risk factors. Some risk factors are more important than others.
Also, not having a risk factor does not mean that an individual will not get the condition. It is always important to discuss the effect of risk factors with your healthcare provider.
What are the Causes of Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly? (Etiology)
- Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly can be caused by genetic mutations, in one or many genes, involved in brain and face development. Mutations in at least 11 different genes are known to cause Nonsyndromic HPE
- The disorder may be inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means that either parent can pass on the disease to their children. The severity of the disease varies, even within families
- Other unknown genetic or environmental factors may play a role, in determining the severity of the disease
What are the Signs and Symptoms of Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly?
The signs and symptoms of Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly may include:
- In the most severe forms of Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly (alobar type), the brain hemispheres and eyes do not divide, leaving one central eye (cyclopia). A tubular opening above the eye, called a proboscis, is also present
- In less severe forms, the eyes separate, but may slant upwards at the corners
- The ears may be enlarged
- Openings along the roof of the mouth (cleft palate) or the upper lip (cleft lip) are common
- The nose may be shortened and upturned, and the nasal bridge is often flattened. The space between the nose and mouth (called philtrum) can be broad. The sense of smell may be partially or completely absent
- Some individuals have only a single front tooth, instead of the usual two; which is known as single maxillary incisor
- Many affected individuals have an unusually small head (microcephaly). However, in some cases, fluid accumulation in the brain, known as hydrocephalus, can cause an unusually large head size (macrocephalus). Varying degrees of intellectual impairment may be present
- Pituitary gland dysfunction is frequent, commonly resulting in diabetes insipidus. This causes problems in maintaining fluid balance
- There may be abnormalities in regulating the body temperature, heart rate, normal feeding, and breathing
- Seizures are seen in some affected individuals
- Some individuals may only have very few outward abnormalities. In such cases, the disorder may be detected only after careful imaging studies of the brain are performed
How is Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly Diagnosed?
A diagnosis of Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly may involve:
- Physical examination of the newborn child
- Evaluation of the family medical history
- Ultrasound studies conducted prenatally
- Genetic testing and analysis
Many clinical conditions may have similar signs and symptoms. Your healthcare provider may perform additional tests to rule out other clinical conditions to arrive at a definitive diagnosis.
What are the possible Complications of Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly?
The possible complications from Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly include:
- Spontaneous abortions
- Elective termination of the pregnancy, if the condition is severe
How is Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly Treated?
Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly disorders have no known cures. An individualized treatment (a case-by-case approach) is planned and provided, based on the specific conditions or complications that develop.
- In those who survive the first few years, some of the physical defects may be corrected and surgical procedures may be performed
- But, for improving motor skills and mental disabilities, special therapeutic treatment (by speech, physical, and occupational therapists) and supportive care is necessary
How can Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly be Prevented?
- Currently, there are no specific methods or guidelines to prevent Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly genetic condition
- Genetic testing of the expecting parents (and related family members) and prenatal diagnosis (molecular testing of the fetus during pregnancy) may help in understanding the risks better during pregnancy
- If there is a family history of the condition, then genetic counseling will help assess risks, before planning for a child
- Some of the risk factors that potentially lead to this condition should be recognized and avoided
- Active research is currently being performed to explore the possibilities for treatment and prevention of inherited and acquired genetic disorders
What is the Prognosis of Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly? (Outcomes/Resolutions)
- Severe cases of Nonsyndromic Holoprosencephaly, frequently results in the death of the fetus prior to birth
- Life expectancy in individuals, who survive to birth, varies greatly and depends on the severity of the symptoms
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Spring rains have not only brought May flowers, they have brought smiles to the faces of farmers and irrigation district managers in the Tracy area.
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CAF Champions League champions, Al Ahly, have beaten Raja Casablanca to win their second consecutive CAF Super Cup under Pitso Mosimane.
In the 13th minute, right back Abdelilah Madkour led Raja Casablanca’s counter-attack. Madkour then crossed the ball inside the penalty area and found Zamalek loanee Hamid Ahaddad who smashed it into the back of the net.
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On January 28 Bell's fourth annual "Let's Talk" day raised almost $5.5 million for Canadian mental health programs. The campaign was simply to start the conversation surrounding the stigma of mental health disorders. You maybe thinking that this will never affect you but that is part of the stigma.
Mental health disorders impact every Canadian. Approximately 20% of us will experience a mental illness while the remaining 80% will be affected by the illness in the form of a family member, friend or colleague. It affects people of all ages, educational, income levels and cultures. The negative connotations associated with mental health have left it vastly misunderstood especially in younger individuals. Adolescents are considered to be young and healthy but it is estimated by the World Health Organization that 10-20% experience a mental health issue. Poor mental health is strongly related to other health issues and poor development outcomes including lower educational achievements, substance abuse, violence, and poor reproductive and sexual health. Unfortunately suicide is the most common cause of death in these young individuals.
A 2002 report on Mental illness in Canada defined Mental illnesses as being characterized by alterations in thinking, mood or behaviour (or some combination) associated with significant distress and impaired functioning over an extended period of time. The symptoms of mental illness vary from mild to severe, depending on the type of mental illness, the individual, the family and the socio-economic environment.
Despite how prevalent mental health disorders are there is still a strong stigma and shame that surrounds it. The stigma arises in part due to lack of knowledge and empathy but also because of superstition, old belief systems, societal fear and exclusion of those with mental disorders. The stereotyping, fear, embarrassment, anger and avoidance leads to those affected with a mental disorder to stay quiet about their illness, delaying seeking treatment, not being compliant with their medications or follow-up care.
A 2008 study by the Canadian Medical Association found just how prevalent and shocking the stigma of mental illness in Canada still is. Some of the key findings are:
Be mindful that we all know more than one person with some mental illness who silently struggles each day as an estimated 500,000 Canadians miss work each day due to some form of mental illness (Mental Health Commission of Canada). When stigmas such as the above exist, it makes it very difficult for someone who has a mental illness to be open and honest about their battle or to even seek help. Awareness of the stigma exists and steps are being taken to help break it down. Bell's "Let's Talk" day is one step in the right direction. The next step starts with you opening that conversation and having it all year long. Mental health disorders simply do not disappear that fast without the proper help, love and support of family and friends.
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A few weeks back, Fractal Design introduced two new versions of the Original Meshify C to its showcase and now it introduced a new version today namely Meshify C White-TG with everything same except the colour. The new case now comes with white exterior and black interior that will provide the consumers more choices to choose from. I personally like white cases over black and Fractal Design did a good job in bringing more versions of the case that is favourite to many.
The case is of mid-tower form factor with a tempered side glass panel to have a clear look into the interior. The original Meshify C has a tinted tempered glass but this one is non-tinted giving more clarity. The front panel is having the angular mesh design which is according to Fractal Design more efficient in airflow. While many cases we saw last year were about front panel having tempered glass or opaque panel, this one is very good for airflow which you would want to use for overclocking.
The top of the case has a dust filter and good ventilation that is suitable for using radiators. The case comes with 2x 120mm fan pre-installed similar to the other versions. One is at the rear and one is present in the middle of the front panel. It can take 2 more 120mm fans or 360mm radiator at the front and up to 240mm radiator at the top.
Cable management of this case is decent with three straps present on the left side where you can take all the cables together for a clean and tidy build while the two big rubber grommets will help you hide the cables better. For installing SSDs there is space for up to 3 SSDs on a metal cover behind the motherboard tray which is removable through a single thumbscrew and will make it ease for installing a custom CPU cooler without taking out the motherboard. For installing hard drives, there are two hard drive bays inside the PSU shroud similar to the NZXT S340.
The case is priced at USD89.99 or GBP79.99 or EURO89.99 and is present now with different Fractal Design distributors.
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The WPA built sidewalks in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
One commenter to an article about New Deal accomplishments in the area wrote: “I remember seeing WPA plaques on sidewalks in Central Falls back in the late 70’s. These were the sidewalks that weren’t collapsing.”
In 2017 a Rhode Island Division of Planning analysis stated “Central Falls’ street network of sidewalks that have largely reached the end of their service life (many are WPA projects from the 1930s) …”
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Andreas approaches the subject of blockchain from an educational, political, cultural, and human perspective, translating the complex and abstract notions into human terms.
He wrote a few books on the subject by now: Mastering Bitcoin (considered one of the best technical guides on this technology), The Internet of Money (a collection of talks about why bitcoin and open blockchains matter), and Mastering Etherum.
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Day 6 of #tiedtothesky aerial challenge: 3-5 trick sequence and thoughts on choreography.
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Every year in our dance studio @tanzstudiovidance we host two in house shownights, one in summer and one right before Christmas. It’s a nice way to dip your toes into performing in front of an audience.
It is a lovely joy to share choreography, your own and the chance to see others’ creations.
Choreography. I usually have a list of certain tricks or combinations that I definitely want to do somewhere, but I start with a song. The song ties it all together-if you are watching someone and they have have the best moves ever but a horrible song then obviously that detracts from the impact. 1. Find a song- hopefully it pulls your heartstrings, but not all songs that you love are good for dancing. It should be a bit dynamic, spots that are slower spots that are louder or just MORE and if there is a pause in the music or a spot where a drop would fit well that needs to be made note of. 2. A choreography should be varied it should have some spins it should have differing climbs/mounts and dismounts, you shouldn’t just do all front split moves or backbend moves or just all drops or just all power moves, small similarities or repetitions can be made but only in a conscious way of tying the choreography together too much is beating a dead horse and quickly becomes boring, too little and the choreography may appear chaotic. (IMO) less is more, just like a salad has a bunch of different ingredients, but in small amounts, so must your choreography and the music is the salad dressing that ties it all together dictating the style, the mood, the flavor. I start with a song and some ideas of tricks and sequences, if there is a place in the music for a drop or a dramatic jump or good for floorwork, that is where I start-with the bones, sometimes you know exactly how you want to start or end... and then I freestyle and film. Again and again till I am satisfied with the end product.


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Computer arrived today from Overclockers. Went to power it on, got about 10 seconds of power then it shut down. Rang them and they asked us to check it without the GPU (did, same failure) and then remove the CR from the motherboard. We replaced the CR and got about 15 minutes power until it shut down again.
I left it sit, as was worried it might be a heat issue, fired it up and managed to get Core Temp dl'd and running before it shut off again.
Temps were show at 90 with a Tj.Max of 91.
So it's looking like a heat problem.
Tried to reset the defaults in the BIOS, and was getting the temp down to about 70 at times (which is still ****ing nuts for an idle, new build). When I would fire up even a small program like the browser or Steam id see a temp jump close 20 degress back up to 90 again.
Even sitting in the BIOS trying to check settings sees the comp just switch off.
I have no idea what else try before calling them tomorrow and really cant see any other course of action than losing my ****ing **** with them.
Anyone have any advice?


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The NVMe and SCSI Express drives represent a challenge to Fusion-IO, a startup that soared to success based on pioneering the move to plugging solid-state drives into the fast PCIe bus, closely linked to system CPUs. Most first-generation solid-state drives used the slower SATA and SAS hard drive interfaces that reside lower in the hierarchy of interconnects on a server.
The performance benefits of PCIe helped Fusion IO tap into sales that soared to $84 million in its most recent quarter. The strong sales supported two successful public offerings in the past two years, raising more than $300 million.
With the advent of many more PCIe flash drives this year, Fusion faces a two-fold challenge. A wider supply of standard drives could help speed price decreases in the sector. In addition, the presence of more solid-state drives will likely narrow Fusion’s performance benefits based on its proprietary approach.
Fusion pioneered a method of giving host CPUs fast access memory stored on flash drives. The company has a proprietary approach for sharing with the host processors a map that describes where all the data on a flash drive physically resides, enabling write access at latencies of as little as 15 microseconds. Most drives maintain less comprehensive logical-to-physical translation maps on the drive controllers and thus have higher latencies.
The new NVMe and SCSI Express specs will enable vendors to leverage common software stacks for PCIe drives, lowering their costs and time-to-market.
“Today most PCIe flash drives include a proprietary driver and no industry software standard,” said Amber Huffman, a spokeswoman for the NVMe group and a senior principal storage engineer at Intel. With NVMe’s consistent feature set, “we expect to see faster time-to-market and broader adoption,” she said.
For its part, Fusion will back the SCSI Express approach because it is based on the work of a recognized standards group, the ANSI T10 committee. Access to the NVMe spec requires signing a legal document managed by Intel Corp., the group’s leader, said Gary Orenstein, vice president of products at Fusion IO.
“Is too early to tell what the shift to NVMe and SCSI Express will mean,” said Orenstein. “Some people think there could be a merging of the two efforts eventually,” he added.
To date, nearly three-quarters of Fusion’s sales have gone to three large customers, likely the top server makers—Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Dell has already signaled its support for NVMe in its latest servers, casting a shadow over at least one of Fusion’s big customers.


The M version of BMW’s SUV/SAC models, X5 and X6, has been confirmed many times and they’re being tested as we speak, but no one really understood the reason behind the M version of these popular models.
In a recent interview with Auto Motor und Sport, the head of BMW’s M division, Herr Ludwig Willisch said that the reason behind the X6 M especially, are the strong sales generated by Mercedes-Benz with their AMG ML models and also Porsche’s Cayenne Turbo.
Herr Willish also said the BMW X5 M and X6 M are expected to match the sale of the popular M5 model.
With the new BMW X5 and X6 M models, the german automaker is expecting to generate large sales for their M division. While they will still be powered by BMW’s new 4.4L V8 twin-turbo engine, output is expected to be higher than the current 400bhp (298kW) and 450lb-ft (600Nm) torque in the xDrive50i.
The car will have larger intakes at the front and could make its debut early next year, said Willisch. It will also have a revised grille and new side mirrors.
He has also confirmed one more time when we already knew, there will be no BMW 1 Series M car nor an M3 Touring.[Source: Pistonheads ]


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Darrin Ross, the creator, director and producer of ”Invincible: A Glorious Tribute To Michael Jackson,” visited with me on my show “Topically Yours” on the BlakeRadio Network, Rainbow Soul, after a week of appearances on broadcast venues throughout the city to promote his upcoming show at NJPAC.
A show biz denizen from an early age, Ross has been producing and engineering songs since 1984. In 1987, he started working with Jam On Productions, a company that produced hit songs “Jam On It,” “Push the Button,” “Destination Earth” and other hits. He went on to do national TV with Dance Party USA and One House Street. Later creating his own record company with Keith Davis wherein they started a group called The Roots. He began working with Rennie Harris Pure Movement as the Executive Director and co-collaborator, creating music and lighting. This led to working with Maurice Hines, Judith Jamison, et al. He worked on Rome and Jewels, a hip hop version of Romeo and Juliet resulting in Ross winning a Bessie Award for Sound Design and Composition.
Darrin created his current show Invincible: A Glorious Tribute to Michael Jackson in 2009, right after Jackson died, bringing people aboard such as band leader Doron “uglybraine” Lev, beat boxer and vocal percussionist, Anointed S; MJ sound alike tribute artist Jeffrey Perez and MJ tribute dancer Pete Carter.
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), located at 1 Center Street, in Newark, NJ, will be featuring “Invincible” on Saturday, June 11th at 8:00 pm.
“I pitched the idea to NJPAC of having a celebrate “Michael Jackson Day” wherein ticket holders will be treated to face painting, MJ collectibles, a workshop conducted by Trap music artist, Michael Trapson, and a look-alike, sound alike and a perform like Michael contest. Therefore, fans should come dressed in their best MJ attire. There will be food with an MJ theme menu, and the Harlem Gossip Live group. Also, Lavelle Smith Jr, Michael Jackson’s former chief choreographer for 23 years, will be judging the contest. Lavelle has allowed us to present new material from the Invincible Tour that he worked on with Michael. Material that Michael planned, but never toured. Also music/dances from an HBO Special called One Night Only that was to be on the Beacon stage that never aired. “Michael Jackson Day” starts at 5pm. The Invincible show starts promptly at 8pm.” Fans can tune into Fox Five “Good Day New York” on June 10th where I’ll be talking about Invincible and MJ Day. So come on out!” remarked Darrin Ross.
VIP ticket buyers get the best seats in the house, a commemorative poster and a chance to meet and greet the artists after the show. Fans can buy tickets by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000 and/or call the NJPAC Box Office at 888-466-5722. For further information, interested parties can listen to the Topically Yours show via http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blakeradio/2016/06/02/topically-yours–darrin-ross-and-anointed-s-of-invincible


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February 24, 2005
There’s been a few discussions recently in the ‘crazy’ libertarian circles I run in over whether libertarians are served by having an organized political party, and if not, whether we would have an easier time dragging the Republicans or the Democrats towards our side. Loyal opposition dadahead recently has posted his scorching response, suggesting Libertarians are closer to the Democrats:
If one’s libertarianism is genuinely motivated by a belief that the exercise of state power is an inherently bad thing, the GOP is the last place you should call home. The Republicans are truly becoming the party of quasi-fascism, promoting an ideology of unquestioning obedience to the state. The Patriot Act alone should be enough to convince any genuine libertarian to run screaming from the party of George W. Bush.
Not to mention the GOP’s committment to ending women’s reproductive rights, using the American military machine in the service of corporate interests no matter how many lives it costs, prosecuting the war on drugs, and generally eroding any freedoms that the American people have managed to claim over the last 200 or so years.
I, of course, was forced to respond:
I’m a firm believer in the Political Compass. Specifically, if you look at their analysis of the 2004 US Presidential Election, you see that Kerry and Bush really aren’t that far away from each other. And I personally believe that most of modern American politics is firmly in that upper-right quadrant. Should libertarians identify with Republicans or Democrats? In theory, there’s not that much separating the two. But frankly, I voted for the guy I think was most likely to lower taxes, stave off the nationalization of our health care system, revamp social security, and who I think was the better choice regarding the war. Bush hasn’t lived up to everything I wanted to see, but I also don’t think he has a chance in hell of enacting his anti-same sex marriage amendment, so the downsize isn’t as bad as Kerry, who I think would be actively promoting nationalized health care.
I also worry that you are heavily demonizing the Republican party. Yes, we have a religious right that has more power than I would like to see. However, I think the left’s characterization of the Republicans as racist or fascist is unfounded. Granted, racists will prefer the non-Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson party if given a choice, but the racist idiots who vote Republican are hangers-on, not policy makers.
I personally believe that most politicians in general are interested in nothing more than increasing their own power. But I think that most average Republicans and Democrats honestly believe that their policies will help people. They only differ on methods.
Judging by the Political Compass results for the 2004 Election, I highly doubt that either the Republicans or Democrats are close enough to libertarians to truly be “fellow travelers.” I’ve always thought that when looking at the parties, I think of a CD player. Following the left’s definition of “progressivism” as being forward, I see the Democrats as pressing “play”, and the Republicans only looking for “slow motion” or “pause”. The greens, of course, are frantically looking for the “fast forward” button, and only the libertarians actually want to hit “rewind”. Granted, I’ve left out the anarchists. They want to pull out the CD, toss it in the fire, and cackle maniacally while laying the concertina wire around their fortress.
My only possible answer can be that having a Libertarian Party is necessary. As both the Republican and Democrat parties push farther left and continue to erode any differentiation between them, people will be looking for a viable third party. Being the only party that truly values both economic and social liberty, we can slowly snipe people from both major parties.
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Constitutional Court declared appeal of Superior Council of Magistracy as inadmissible
16:52 | 20.09.2021 Category: Political
Chisinau, 20 September /MOLDPRES/-Constitutional judges declared inadmissible the appeal filed by the Superior Council of Magistracy on declaration as unconstitutional of the law that involves raising the retirement age for judges, starting on 1 July 2021.
Based on the examination of the notification submitted by the Superior Council of Magistracy, the judges of the Constitutional Court found today that the notification is inadmissible and cannot be accepted for substantive examination.
„It is declared inadmissible the notification regarding the control of the constitutionality of the provisions of article 32 of Law no. 544 of July 20, 1995 regarding the status of the judge (in the wording of Law no. 222 of December 4, 2020), submitted by the Superior Council of Magistracy ”, the decision of the Constitutional Court reads.
According to the article of the law in question, starting with July 1, 2021, the retirement age is set for judges of 50 years and 6 months, for both men and women. Each subsequent year, the retirement age is increased until the age of 63.
The Superior Council of Magistracy argued that the contested provisions significantly diminish the social guarantees of judges.


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Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
The bones represent the earliest human remains discovered in the Arctic of North America, a "pretty significant find," said Ben A. Potter of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
While ancient Alaskan residents were known to hunt large game, the newly discovered site shows they also foraged for fish, birds and small mammals, he explained. "Here we know there were young children and females. So, this is a whole piece of the settlement system that we had virtually no record of."
The site of the discovery, Upper Sun River, is in the forest of the Tanana lowlands in central Alaska, Potter and his colleagues report.
Potter said the find, which included evidence of what appeared to be a seasonal house and the cremated remains of the child, "is truly spectacular in all senses of the word."
"Before this find, we knew people were hunting large game like bison or elk with sophisticated weapons, but most of sites we had to study were hunting camps," Potter said.
Now they have the remains of the residence, which they say was occupied in summer, based on the evidence of bones from salmon and immature ground squirrels.
The cremated human bones are the "first evidence for behavior associated with the death of an individual," Potter said. "This was a living, breathing human being that lived and died," he said.
Based on its teeth, the child was about 3 years old, according to archaeologist Joel Irish, also of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
While the researchers were not able to determine the sex of the child from the bones, Potter said they hope to obtain a DNA sample that might give them the answer.
The child has been named Xaasaa Cheege Ts'eniin (or Upward Sun River Mouth Child) by the local Native community, the Healy Lake Tribe.
In addition to the human and animal bones at the site, the researchers also found stone tools used for cutting.
William Fitzhugh, director of Arctic studies at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, agreed that "this is definitely a unique and important site."
He said the most interesting aspects were the very early, well-dated home site and its broad range of small animal food remains, stone tools, hearth pit and a possible ritual cremation site, "all with strong associations to Siberia. Indeed, a great documentation of one of America's first families," said Fitzhugh, who was not part of the research team.
While these bones represent the earliest human remains in the U.S. Arctic, there is evidence people had passed through Alaska earlier. Indeed, human DNA has been extracted from dried excrement deposited in caves in Oregon some 14,300 years ago and the well-known Clovis Culture flourished in parts of the United States 13,000 years ago.
The new find adds to knowledge of the pioneering people of Beringia, the region extending from eastern Siberia into Alaska, which was connected by a land-bridge across the Bering Strait thousands of years ago, aiding the movement of people from Asia into North America.
The researchers said the stone artifacts, house structure and the types of animal remains more closely resemble items found at Siberia's Ushki Lake than to anything from the U.S.'s lower 48 states.
While Potter reported that the child probably died before being cremated, Michael Kunz, an archaeologist with the Bureau of Land Management in Fairbanks, suggested another possibility: "I don't think that there is any more evidence that the burned remains of the child indicate a cremation than they indicate that the child may have been cooked and eaten."
The body was found buried in the fire pit, Kunz noted via e-mail, and "the bones that are missing are the bones that have the most flesh on them and would most likely be used for food."
"Cannibalism among humans is not new news," added Kunz, who was not part of Potter's team.
Potter said he disagreed, because it appeared soft tissue remained when the child was burned.
And Irish said the child had been laid out with knees drawn up and hands placed to one side in a relatively peaceful position. Missing bones, he said, could simply have been destroyed by the fire.
Kunz did agree with the researchers that it is a unique find, commenting: "This is also, to my knowledge, the earliest known example of a formal dwelling in Eastern Beringia."
And, he added, "it bolsters evidence from other sites in the Tanana Valley the Paleo-Indians in the region were not just big game hunters, but foraged widely."
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.


Interview with Evonne Agnello About Mental lIness
How prevalent is mental illness?
1 in 4 Americans will have a serious mental illness sometime this year.
Each day in America, about 100 people take their lives—one every 15 minutes—and 90% of the suicides are related to mental illness.
What is mental illness?
It’s highly complex, but at NAMI one speaker brought forth an understandable metaphor, “Mental illness occurs when the brain’s circuits—where the neurons travel—are disrupted, like a train off the tracks.” For healing to occur, repairs are needed—and these can come from talk therapy, medicine, electricity, meditation, and most recently, magnets. (In 2011, the FDA approved a treatment called TMS, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.)
Why should those suffering from mental illness have hope?
After decades of treating mental illness, researchers now use the words recovery, cure and eliminate.
“Neuro-science is now supporting a recovery model for brain disorders and it didn’t just a few years ago,” according to former Harvard brain researcher Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. People with trauma are having recovery by neuro-genesis—the growth of new brain cells that re-build connections. Taylor’s eighteen-minute talk, My Stroke of Insight, has been the second most-watched TED talk for a long time. Her remarkable book with the same title, about what she learned during and after suffering her own stroke, was published in 2009.
In 2012, a new organization was launched, One Mind for Research (1mind4research.org), whose goal is to eliminate brain disease—and it’s stigma—in ten years. It was co-founded by Patrick Kennedy (son of the late Ted Kennedy) who struggled for twenty-five years with depression, alcoholism, and drug addiction, before quitting politics in 2006 to devote his life to this cause. Launched on the 50th anniversary of his uncle, John Kennedy, announcing the goal of putting a man on the moon in ten years, One Mind for Research is also called Moonshot for the Mind.
And, in Seattle, every day at the Paul Allen Institute for Brain Science, over a thousand researchers from across the globe access constantly growing data that is free and available to the public.
And, a therapy called DBT has revolutionized treatment for chronically suicidal people. With a usual one-year treatment, suicide attempts have been reduced by half. DBT, dialectical behavior therapy, was developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan at the University of Washington. To view a short and dramatic video where she describes her own depression and to read about the therapy, google Marsha Linehan New York Times.
Aren’t there a lot of famous people who’ve suffered from serious depression?
Yes. Many highly successful, productive and creative people have had depression—almost to the point of being able to say that being a little crazy may be an advantage to those, for example, with high work loads and demanding situations. In retrospect, that seemed true in my career. Here’s a list I’ve compiled of famous people who’ve suffered from depression.
A Woody Allen, Alan Alda’s mother
B Art Buchwald, Beethoven, Marlon Brando
C Winston Churchill, Johnny Carson, Judy Collins
D John Denver, Patty Duke
F William Faulkner
G Tipper Gore, Woody Guthrie’s mother
H Ernest Hemingway
J Billy Joel
K Larry King
L Abraham Lincoln
M Mozart, Michelangelo
N Issac Newton
P Jane Pauley
S Brooke Shields, Ted Sorensen’s mother
T Mark Twain
V Kurt Vonnegut
W Mike Wallace
Y Robert Young (Father Knows Best) Missing: E, I, O, Q, R, U, X, Z.
What can I do to help?
You can help curb the severe shortage of brain tissue for research by donating your brain. “Because of the shortage, pharmaceutical companies have pulled huge amounts of funding from brain research,” according to Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. The more brains available, the sooner cures will be found. As a bonus, one brain can be used in multiple research projects.
Brain Bank advocates ask, “Why would you burn or bury anything that could help others?”
For information, visit the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at www.brainbank.mclean.org or call 800-BRAIN-BANK.
Bolte quips, “So, you always wanted to go to Harvard … here’s your chance.”
How does stress affect mental illness?
Stress has a double whammy on the brain as it not only increases brain cell deaths but reduces brain cell births.
How are diagnoses made?
For years, the DSM has been the standard, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.
According to the NIMH, the National Institute on Mental Health, “Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure.
“Patients with mental disorders deserve better. NIMH has launched the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project to transform diagnosis by incorporating genetics, imaging, cognitive science, and other levels of information to lay the foundation for a new classification system.”
The DSM was first published in 1990 to provide a common language for practitioners. The fifth edition was released in 2013.
The greater delineation and definition of the many faces of mental illness will surely aid the search for cures—and that’s another good reason for hope.


By Lachlan Leeming, Local Democracy Reporter
Residents in South-east London have been warned of rogue traders selling dodgy face masks and hand sanitisers.
Trading standards officers visited two shops last week selling disposable face masks which had been split into separate packages, interfering with the manufacturer’s integrity, according to Greenwich council.
Officers also found a number of “potentially irregular” hand sanitisers for sale.
The news comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson hinted at new laws being introduced to tackle outlets and individuals hiking prices of much-needed goods during the coronavirus crisis.
The authority said all products were immediately withdrawn.
Accounts of so-called “price gouging” by sellers have been widely reported over the past week, as panic buying has seen shelves stripped day after day of long-life food, cleaning products and toilet paper.
During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, the Tory leader said the government should look at introducing new laws to tackle black marketeers profiteering from the unprecedented demand for household cleaning items.
He told the House of Commons: “I think that profiteering is something that we should be looking at from a legislative point of view in this House as has happened before in this country,” he told members.
Greenwich council acknowledged face masks had limited use outside of medical settings and urged the public to continue practising social distancing and good hand washing practice.
“Face masks play a very important role in clinical settings such as hospitals but there’s very little evidence of widespread benefit from their use outside of these clinical settings,” the authority stated.
“The best defence is to wash our hands for at least 20 seconds, using soap and hot water, or hand sanitiser if soap and hot water is not available – as well as always carrying tissues and using them to catch coughs and sneezes, then putting the tissue in a bin.
“Please note that a hand sanitiser must contain more than 60 per cent alcohol to be effective.”


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A Republican state legislator has joined Rep. Bill Patmon, a Cleveland Democrat, in sponsoring a bill that would make a first offense of cruelty to pets a felony.
The bill, officially named Dick Goddards' Law, is expected to be assigned a number Monday.
Rep. Barbara Sears, a Republican from Sylvania, decided this week to cosponsor the bill, which will make knowingly injuring or killing a companion animal or depriving it of food, water or shelter a fifth-degree felony, punishable by six months to a year in jail.
Dick Goddard's Law is a tribute to the 82-year-old WJW Channel 8 weatherman who has championed pets throughout his career.
Patmon has said he wants to bring Ohio in line with the rest of the country, where cruelty is a felony in 45 states. Sears' office confirmed she will cosponsor the bill, but she could not be reached this morning for comment.
Seven felony cruelty bills have died in Columbus in recent years, largely because of opposition from agricultural lobbyists, Patmon has said.All livestock is specifically excluded from Goddard's Act. It solely applies to "any animal that is kept inside a residential dwelling and any dog or cat regardless of where it is kept, including a pet store," the bill reads.
The bill also retains a misdemeanor provision for negligently killing, causing suffering or failing to provide care that does not result in death.
The Ohio Alliance for Animal Cruelty Reform was created by several animal advocates to campaign for the bill using Facebook.

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A novel malware that uses a variety of tricks to stay under the radar and evade detection, while stealthily capable of executing arbitrary commands on infected system called ‘Pingback,’ the Windows malware leverages ICMP Tunneling for covert bot communications, allowing the adversary to utilize ICMP packets to piggyback attack code.
Pingback (“oci.dll”) achieves this by getting loaded through a legitimate service called MSDTC a component responsible for handling database operations that are distributed over multiple machines by taking advantage of a method called DLL search order hijacking, which involves using a genuine application to preload a malicious DLL file.
Pingback once executed resorts to using the ICMP protocol for its main communication. ICMP is a network layer protocol mainly used for sending error messages and operational information, say, a failure alert when another host becomes unreachable.
Pingback takes advantage of an Echo request with the message sequence numbers 1234, 1235, and 1236 denoting the type of information contained in the packet 1234 being a command or data, and 1235 and 1236 being the acknowledgment for receipt of data on the other end.
ICMP is useful for diagnostics and performance of IP connections, can also be misused by malicious actors to scan and map a target’s network environment. Monitoring rather than disabling it a good idea..


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