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Incidence and Mortality
Estimated new cases and deaths from small intestine cancer in the United States in 2012:[1]
Adenocarcinoma, lymphoma, sarcoma, and carcinoid tumors account for the majority of small intestine malignancies, which, as a whole, account for only 1% to 2% of all gastrointestinal malignancies.[2,3,4,5] As in other gastrointestinal malignancies, the predominant modality of treatment is surgery when resection is possible, and cure relates to the ability to completely resect the cancer. The overall 5-year survival rate for resectable adenocarcinoma is only 20%. The 5-year survival rate for resectable leiomyosarcoma, the most common primary sarcoma of the small intestine, is approximately 50%. Carcinoid tumors of the small intestine are covered elsewhere as a separate cancer entity. (Refer to the PDQ summary on Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumor Treatment for more information.)
Tumors that occur in the small intestine include the following:
Approximately 25% to 50% of the primary malignant tumors in the small intestine are adenocarcinomas, and most occur in the duodenum.[1] Small intestine carcinomas may occur synchronously or metachronously at multiple sites.
Leiomyosarcomas occur most often in the ileum.
Some 20% of malignant lesions of the small intestine are carcinoid tumors, which occur more frequently in the ileum than in the duodenum or jejunum and may be multiple.
It is uncommon to find malignant lymphoma as a solitary small intestine lesion.
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Definitions of TNM
The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has designated staging by TNM classification to define small intestine cancer.[1]
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Treatment options under clinical evaluation:
Current Clinical Trials
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with small intestine adenocarcinoma. The list of clinical trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.
General information about clinical trials is also available from the NCI Web site.
Treatment options under clinical evaluation:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with small intestine leiomyosarcoma. The list of clinical trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with recurrent small intestine cancer. The list of clinical trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.
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The following is a guest post submitted by Mark Schuller, Assistant Professor, African American Studies and Anthropology Department of Social Sciences York College, City University of New York. The piece is written by Philippe Bourgois, Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family & Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Luke Messac, MD/PhD student, University of Pennsylvania
For many European and American citizens the World Bank is a peripheral institution, rarely felt and barely understood. But in impoverished developing countries, the Bank has exerted a tremendous influence over national budgets profoundly altering the survival strategies and basic life chances of the poor majorities of those nations. As a hegemonic voice in development economics, the World Bank is a felt–and often feared– presence in the lives of the world's most destitute. Too often, this well-heeled international lender's imposition of "structural adjustment reforms" has backfired, harming more than helping the poor. This month's election of a new World Bank President is an unparalleled opportunity to refashion the Bank into the effective instrument to eradicate global poverty it was meant to be. No one is better equipped to lead this mammoth undertaking than Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President Obama's nominee to lead the World Bank.
Together we have worked with and known Dr. Kim for over three decades: Bourgois as a fellow medical anthropologist focusing on the afflictions of the destitute, and Messac as a student, mentee and front-line office worker. We have seen him in action and we know how he thinks, works and acts under pressure. We have followed his pioneering contributions in academic scholarship, institutional leadership, and public policy innovation. As the co-founder of Partners In Health, Dr. Kim transformed the definition of "best medical practices" for the poor. He showed the world that it is possible to stem the tide of deadly infectious epidemics such as AIDS and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by effectively delivering complex regimens of medication to the poorest of the poor in the most remote corners of the world. Most importantly by capacitating and employing health workers in shanty-towns and remote rural hamlets his health model demonstrated that poor people themselves can become the most effective means to deliver world class health technology to the most needy. By skillfully orchestrating public-private partnerships he enabled 90 percent price reductions to the health ministries of poor countries for life-saving drugs that became a global precedent and are now an ethical industry standard. During his tenure at the World Health Organization, Dr. Kim founded and led the "3 by 5" initiative, a campaign that helped spur private donors, governments and international organizations increase access to AIDS treatment around the globe. As a pioneer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and most recently as President of Dartmouth College, Dr. Kim proved himself an able administrator capable of galvanizing a generation of young scholars to match idealism with rigor to tackle the most obstinate challenges in poverty eradication.
A few vocal critics of Dr. Kim's candidacy have argued for the status quo. They complain that he is unprepared for the post because he is neither an economist nor financier. True enough, Dr. Kim's academic training was in medicine and anthropology, and he has never worked on Wall Street. But he is no stranger to powerful institutions. He has the unique advantage of having worked over the last three decades on the frontlines of the leading global health initiatives both from the institutional inside (World Health Organization, Harvard Medical School, etc) and from the real-world outside in Haitian squatter settlements, Peruvian slums, and Siberian prisons. If elected, Dr. Kim will enter the post of World Bank President with an unequalled understanding of the Bank's history and the practical grass roots level effects of its policies. In a volume he co-edited in 2000 entitled Dying for growth: global inequality and the health of the poor, he marshals careful documentation and first-hand experience to critique the unintended negative consequences of those World Bank policies that proved most detrimental to the health of the poor. He points, for instance to the deadly consequences of the Bank's insistence on privatizing public goods like health and education as loan conditions imposed on impoverished debtor governments. In the years that followed, his critique would be echoed by other influential voices, including former World Bank chief economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. More recently the Bank has begun to recognize its errors and is taking steps away from its formerly counterproductive structural adjustment programs. And while some veterans of the now-discredited late twentieth century policies at the Bank resentfully caricature Dr. Kim's scholarship as anti-growth and anti-globalization, he has always been a prescient and clarion voice for economic development and poverty eradication efforts driven by evidence, pragmatics and ethics.
The last few weeks since Dr. Kim's nomination by President Obama have also amplified an overdue discussion of the World Bank's governance structure. The policies of international financial institutions like the World Bank have long been dictated by its primary shareholders, the governments whose contributions make up the majority of its capital. One of the most visible manifestations of this wealthy-world dominance has been the nationality of these institutions' leaders. Since the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 an American has led the World Bank while a European has led the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Kim will be the first to transform this colonial-style heritage. He was born in war-torn South Korea before emigrating to become a United States citizen. Although nominated by the President of the United States he is a genuine citizen of the world. Never before has a leader with such a proven track record for improving the lives of the world's very poorest been given the opportunity to take charge of such an influential institution with so much potential to advance the fight against global poverty. Never before has a clear-thinking, practical critic of the World Bank's past failures been in a position to take this powerful institution's helm and transform international development for those who need its benefits most.
In short, Dr. Kim's nomination by the leader of the world's largest superpower is one of the best opportunities in recent memory to increase access to opportunity and equality among the world's poorest. We sincerely hope that this year's election of the next World Bank President is merit-based, as we can think of no better candidate than Dr. Kim to fulfill the Bank's mission statement: "To fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results."

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Procurement panel takes informal poll.
A show of hands was requested Friday during a The George Washington University Law School panel exploring legislation to improve agency handling of suspension and debarment of dishonest contractors.
The bulk of the audience numbering some 90 identified themselves as feds. But Associate Dean for Procurement Law Studies Dan Gordon, the former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, also elicited raised hands from many practicing attorneys and a few contractors.
Then a panelist suggested that this informal survey needed to reflect a new category—federal employees on furlough.
Two more attendees' hands shot up, one confessing, "I'm not worried about it because I'm here going to school."
Replied emcee Gordon, "Furloughs cause great pain for us as citizens."
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WAG Screens Encore for World's Best Commercials
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Winnipeg, MB – March 5, 2014 – If you missed them in December, you have one last chance to catch the best commercials in the world. The WAG is rescreening the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the best commercials from across the globe, on select dates in March in the Muriel Richardson Auditorium. Representing almost every continent and spanning a multitude of cultures, these ads are a fascinating window to the world.
Tickets are on sale now at wag.ca:
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Tickets are $12 for WAG members, students, and seniors, and $14 for adults. They are available at wag.ca or in person at the WAG front desk. Many shows sell out, so it's recommended you get your tickets early.
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the world's biggest celebration of creativity in communications. As the most prestigious international annual advertising awards, over 24,000 entries from all over the world are showcased and judged at the Festival. Winning companies receive the highly coveted Lion trophy, honouring the most creative film, film craft, print, outdoor, interactive, radio, design, sales promotion & activation and integrated advertising, as well as the best media, direct marketing, PR and Titanium ideas.
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MIAMI - Witnesses will testify live from Pakistan via video beamed to a federal courtroom as part of the defense case in the trial of a Muslim cleric accused of financially supporting the Pakistani Taliban.
U.S. District Judge Robert Scola approved the unusual testimony in the case of 77-year-old imam Hafiz Khan. The first five witnesses will be questioned beginning Feb. 11 at an Islamabad hotel, and jurors will watch on courtroom TV screens. Scola said Tuesday the arrangement is costing taxpayers about $130,000.
Khan is on trial for allegedly funneling at least $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban, listed by the U.S. as a terrorist group linked to al-Qaida. Khan insists the money was for innocent purposes, and the Pakistani witnesses are expected to back that up. If convicted, Khan faces up to 15 years in prison on each of four counts.
At a hearing Tuesday, Khan attorney Khurrum Wahid asked Scola to allow six additional witnesses to testify from Pakistan, over prosecutors' objections. The judge did not immediately rule but seemed inclined to approve the request, noting that an appeals court might toss out any convictions if the trial appears unfair to Khan.
"I don't want to have a second trial. I want to have one fair trial," Scola said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Sullivan said the second batch of witnesses is likely to simply repeat testimony of the original five and is unnecessary.
"They're all testifying to the same points," Sullivan said.
Wahid, however, said the witnesses will discuss details such as the operation of Khan's religious school in Pakistan, known as a madrassa, and how Khan sent money to victims of violence between the Taliban and Pakistan's army during fighting in 2009 over control of the Swat Valley. Many of these witnesses are heard on phone conversations intercepted by the FBI.
Earlier, prosecutors dropped charges against one of Khan's sons, and Scola earlier this month dismissed the case against a second son because of insufficient evidence. Trial of the elder Khan is expected to last through most of February.
"His testimony is directly relevant to Mr. Khan's defense of having provided funds to the poor, to orphans, and to those injured due to being victims of war or flood," the attorney said.
Four of the witnesses that will begin testifying on Feb. 11 are alleged by prosecutors to be Taliban members or sympathizers, including Khan's daughter Amina Khan. She and two of the others are charged in the same U.S. case as their father, but Pakistan has refused to arrest them, federal prosecutors say.
"We have no information that's going to happen," Sullivan said.
Earlier, prosecutors dropped charges against one of Khan's sons, and Scola earlier this month dismissed the case against a second son because of insufficient evidence. Trial of the elder Khan is expected to last through most of February.


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Fr. Trifa's sanction
I have been working on the Romanian version of this article. But I haven't found in any source the idea that Fr. Trifa had been excommunicated. I left the info in its place in the article here, for the moment, as I don't have an English-language source to support my argument.
But: the 1937 decision of the Metropolitan Synod in Transylvania, as I understand from the Romanian-language sources, had been to defrock rather than excommunicate Fr. Trifa. I haven't had access to the 1937 decision, but I did read the 1990 decision of the Holy Synod, by which his defrocking is lifted, and the association granted recognition. Also, from what I've been reading on the official site of the (institutionnalised) Army of the Lord, Fr. Trifa did have an Orthodox funeral, but a layman's funeral rather than a priest's. So I would propose to change "excommunicated" to "defrocked" (or is there a more adequate term in English?), as it did make a lot of difference for the movement itself. Thank you. Iuliana 10:18, February 22, 2012 (HST)


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How to Find Potential Suppliers for Your Food Truck
The ultimate goal in selecting a food supplier for your food truck is to find one who will offer you high-quality food with good pricing. You'll have the opportunity to work with numerous food suppliers, and in some cases, you may choose to have multiple suppliers for your products, such as meat and produce.
However, you may be able to find a supplier who can provide you with the bulk of your food supplies from under one roof.
Large national suppliers, such as Sysco or US Foods, can provide highly discounted rates for their products because of the high volume of food they distribute, You may find that their minimum orders are too high for a single food truck, but if you're friends with other food trucks in your area, you can group together to place orders large enough to meet their minimums.
Although you likely won't be able to purchase all your products from a single supplier, keeping track of a lot of invoices wastes time and energy. Try to meet your needs with the fewest possible suppliers.
To prevent spending a lot of time trying to locate specific suppliers, you can use a number of quick and easy ways, such as the ones I discuss in the following list, to locate the exact suppliers you need for opening and maintaining a successful mobile food business.
Speak with fellow food truck and restaurant owners in your area. These professionals have been in the business long enough to have found the most proficient suppliers in your area and can make recommendations that are based on the experiences they've had and learned from.
Search online for local food and restaurant suppliers. Almost every type of product you require can be found on the Internet. You can take advantage of online business directories that list suppliers and even search for suppliers based on the type of supplies you're looking for.
If you want to search specifically for a supplier in your area, many of these sites have an option for you to enter your zip code. Another benefit for using online business directories is that they often provide information about suppliers who offer very competitive prices on their products.
Check out the following sites to help find the suppliers (and supplies) you need:
Attend restaurant industry trade shows. At these trade shows, you can obtain information about various restaurant suppliers' products and services. You have access to supplier literature and may even be able to talk to restaurant supplier representatives.
You can find a list of these trade shows at your local chamber of commerce or from the National Restaurant Association, which sponsors many of these shows across the country.
No matter which avenue you use to find a supplier, you must take the time to speak with the ones you're interested in using. After you've created your supply list, write the name of at least two suppliers next to each item to create a comprehensive list of suppliers you'll interview.


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The application of an audited self-management approach to manage nutrient losses in the Hurunui River catchment.
(University of Canterbury. Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management, 2015)
Water quality impairment is becoming an increasing problem in Canterbury, and throughout New Zealand. In North Canterbury, the Hurunui River has been associated with elevated nutrient levels. Not only are elevated nutrient ...


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In 1998, I designed a 1400 sq. ft. pole barn to house my current Harvest Kitchen concept. My goal was to create the healthiest meals made from small and mid-scale farmers' unsold produce. Two NESARE grants supported my ideas.
Now in 2012 I have a variety of frozen and vacuum packaged meal kits and individual products that are healthier and higher quality than supermarket frozen foods. Visit our ordering site to see a few of the meal component possibilities. My dream is to inspire and assist in the establishment of a Harvest Kitchen Network in rural and urban communities everywhere. The whole foods provided could have a profound effect on helping consumers avoid diet related diseases. These kitchens would also provide a small scale processing market for small and mid-scale farmers. Cooks, processors and consumers need to use their creativity to create new frozen meals with a "plant-strong" focus.
Our new online market provides individual product information: ingredient lists, product descriptions, unit pricing, nutrition information and suggested usage possibilities to empower consumers to make choices that fit their needs. We hope to add video clips of cooking demonstrations too. We even explore our large scale processor competition.
Our A+ meals are designed to provide flavorful profiles plus a focus on high fiber components from whole grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables while keeping our products low in sodium, added sugars and fats.
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What is BioLogos?
So what is BioLogos? Well it all began with a scientist and a book. Francis Collins, the physician and geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, wrote the book, The Language of God. In it he describes his own journey from atheism to Christian faith, and the harmony between Christianity and science (and especially evolution). Collins began receiving letters from people asking further questions about science and faith so he formed the BioLogos Foundation in 2007. The idea was to develop a website to house resources for this conversation. It launched in 2009, and now receives thousands of visits each day.
The term "BioLogos" comes from two Greek words: bios, which means "life" like in our words "biology" (the study of life) or "biohazard" (something not very pleasant for life); and the word "logos", which can mean a bunch of different things like "the study of" or "reason" or "word". Collins had in mind the use of the term from the first chapter of the Gospel of John where Christ is called "the Logos", usually translated into English as "Word". The Gospel starts with "In the beginning was the Word" and a few verses later says, "All things came into being through the Word." So BioLogos references the fact that Christ is the source of all life. Therefore life is an expression of the will of God.
Today, BioLogos still addresses the questions people asked Collins. And we're the premier organization producing resources on multiple platforms, which celebrate the compatibility of evolutionary creation and biblical faith. These resources are not just for scientists, but also pastors, small groups, parents, and anyone else interested understanding what science and the Bible reveal about the development of life.


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There's been a lot of 'noise' recently about how genetically engineered (GE) crops can help "feed the world", and that they can help agriculture in a climate-affected world. But are these promises real or just hype?
If we look at recent studies, they actually highlight the failures of GE technology to deliver on its promises, and the mounting evidence that agricultural productivity is better served by a focus on ecological agriculture [1]. For instance, the latest study (Heinemann et al. 2013) by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand found that despite the claims that GE might be needed to feed the world, we found no yield benefit when the United States was compared to West Europe, other economically developed countries of the same latitude which do not grow GE crops. This is not altogether surprising as there simply are no GE crops designed to increase yield. They do not exist.
The majority of currently existing GE crops (for example Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" GE soya) are herbicide tolerant, which allow herbicides to be sprayed liberally, killing all plants apart from the GE crop. This is not good for biodiversity because it affects animals such as birds [2] and insects [3] by reducing the abundance of plants that they feed on. This might also include bees, adding pressure to already declining populations. The remainder of GE crops are mostly insect resistant and produce their own pesticide (for example GE Bt corn). These are also not good for biodiversity as these GE crops can kill other insects such as butterflies [4]. Problems of insect resistance [5] and other, secondary [6] insect pests, mean that farmers have to continue spraying pesticides with GE Bt crops. With GE crops, farmers are still on the pesticide treadmill.
The reality is that the promised "beneficial" GE crops are stuck at the development stage in the lab. The reason is that scientists are finding that the traits we need to help crops to cope with climate change (e.g. heat tolerance) or increased nutrition (e.g. enhanced vitamins) are actually quite complex and controlled by several genes. Genetic engineering is a crude technology and is no match the tightly controlled network regulating gene expression in cells. For example, 'Golden' rice, a GE rice variety, is still in development after 20 years [7], largely because of the complexity of the genetic engineering [8].
Meanwhile, advances in conventional breeding mean that several of the crops promised by genetic engineering are already in farmer's fields. For example, both flood and drought tolerant rice [9] are already in farmer's fields and drought resistant maize [10] is available in many parts of Africa where it's needed. Nutrient enhanced crops also exist already – without using genetic engineering [11] but a more sustainable solution is to improve access to a healthy and diverse diet.
It's clear that GE crops are not capable of producing the crops that farmers and consumers need, whilst the quiet revolution in conventional breeding techniques is already producing these crops [12].
GE crops are stuck with two simple traits: herbicide tolerance and insect resistance. These do not help to "feed the world", but pose threats to human and animal health, as well as biodiversity.
So the answer to the original question is no. GE crops are not needed to feed the world but are just hype.
Janet Cotter is a Senior Scientist at the Greenpeace International Science Unit.
[1] Heinemann, JA et al. 2013. Sustainability and innovation in staple crop production in the US Midwest, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability: DOI:10.1080/14735903.2013.806408;
Jacobsen SE et al.2013. Feeding the world: genetically modified crops versus agricultural biodiversity. Agronomy for Sustainable Development: DOI 10.1007/s13593-013-0138-9
Quist DA et al. 2013. Hungry for Innovation: pathways from GM crops to agroecology. Ch. 19 in: European Environmental Agency (EEA) Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation. Vol. 2. EEA Report no 1/2013 pp. 490-517.
[2] Heard MS et al. 2003a. Weeds in fields with contrasting conventional and genetically modifies herbicide-tolerant crop – I. Effects on abundance and diversity. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society London B 358: 1819-1832; Heard MS et al. 2003b. Weeds in fields with contrasting conventional and genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops. II. Effects on individual species. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society London B 358: 1833-1846.
[3] Pleasants JM & Oberhauser KS 2012. Milkweed loss in agricultural fields because of herbicide use: effect on the monarch butterfly population. Insect Conservation and Diversity doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00196.x
[4] Dively GP et al. 2004. Effects on monarch Butterfly larvae (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) after continuous exposure to Cry1Ab expressing corn during anthesis. Environmental Entomology 33: 1116-1125.
[5] Tabashnik B et al. 2013. Insect resistance to Bt crops: lessons from the first billion acres. Nature Biotechnology 31: 510-521.
[6] Catangui MA & Berg RK 2006.Western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Smith) (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae), as a potential pest of transgenic Cry1Ab Bacillus thuringiensis corn hybrids in South Dakota Environmental Entomology 35 1439-1452.
[7] http://www.irri.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=12483:clarifying-recent-news-about-golden-rice&lang=en
[8] Greenpeace 2012. Golden Illusion. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/agriculture/2012/GoldenRice/GoldenIllusion.pdf
[9] http://www.irri.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=9148:climate-ready-rice&lang=en
[10] http://dtma.cimmyt.org/
[11] http://www.harvestplus.org/
[12] Greenpeace 2009. Smart Breeding. Marker-Assisted Selection: a non-invasive biotechnology alternative to genetic engineering of plant varieties. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2009/11/smart-breeding.pdf
(Unregistered) Jane
I feel sick that Canada isn;t labeling tha products that are genetically engineered--so that we can decide for ourselves whether we want to buy them--...
I feel sick that Canada isn;t labeling tha products that are genetically engineered--so that we can decide for ourselves whether we want to buy them--is there a petition to sign for this--Jane
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Dr. Thierry Vrain, formerly Head of Biotechnology @ Agriculture Canada's Summerland Research Station, once a supporter of GMO is now sharing his u...
Dr. Thierry Vrain, formerly Head of Biotechnology @ Agriculture Canada's Summerland Research Station, once a supporter of GMO is now sharing his understanding of why the science behind genetic engineering is flawed.
It's high time that Peter Mansbridge interviews Dr Thierry Vrain on the National regarding the contents of his recent Ted talk entitled The Gene Revolution, The Future of Agriculture:
Canadians need to be getting more information from our public broadcaster regarding problems with GMO in agriculture.
Petition CBC News, The National to Interview Dr Thierry Vrain Regarding GMO & The Future of Agriculture
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Please help us!!!
Our UK Government is acting as salesmen for Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer after an effective secret lobbying meeting last summe...
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Our UK Government is acting as salesmen for Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer after an effective secret lobbying meeting last summer and have started to issue out mistruths to its public. They seemingly refuse to speak to anyone with an opposing view or observe scientific studies and reports that show their views as unrealistic and incorrect.
We drastically need help here to educate our public as to the truth of GMO and how it may seriously affect their health. I donate money to you every month and kindly ask that you help us to stop our Govt driving us all to destruction and our land to genetic abuse.
I am a scientist with considerable genetic engineering experience and am horrified by the thought of eating GMO.
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as another scientist who works on GMOs, its absurd that you are horrified of eating them. The fact is that you have been eating these products for dec...
as another scientist who works on GMOs, its absurd that you are horrified of eating them. The fact is that you have been eating these products for decades now, and people continue to eat them, while complaining about them. If you don't want them, fine. Buy organic for 3X the price and leave the perfectly healthy, cheaper products for us.
Also, the reason we don't like discussing these things with people is that there are very few people who have the education to even fully understand what we are trying to accomplish. There are no parameters or restrictions on what you can claim, so when GMOs are called poison or cancer causing agents, we are stuck trying to defend the crops that haven't harmed anyone. Not to mention that there has never been any test or experiment that ties unhealthy results to GMO use and production. But that doesn't stop people from questioning what they don't understand
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Reading any of the following will enlighted those truly interested as to the real dangers of biotechnology: Seeds of Destruction by F. William Engdah...
Reading any of the following will enlighted those truly interested as to the real dangers of biotechnology: Seeds of Destruction by F. William Engdahl, Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey Smith or The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin.
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Diabetes and Major Emergencies: How to Prepare
Joslin's diabetes educators explain what people with diabetes should do to prepare for a major emergency.
The types of major emergencies that require advance preparation for people with diabetes are those where access to food, medicine, and communication is limited, according to Nora Saul, M.S, R.D., L.D.N., C.D.E, of the Joslin Clinic. These can include natural disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, tornados, and blizzards.
You should store three days worth of supplies in an easy-to-identify, waterproof and insulated emergency kit that's kept in an accessible place. It's important to keep basic supplies at home, work, and in the car, since those are the three places where many people spend the most time.
Important items to keep on hand and in your emergency kit when you have diabetes can include the following:
- Extra insulin and syringes or pens
- Medicines to reduce fever
- Anti-diarrhea agents
- Cough/cold/flu medicines – preferably sugar-free
- Canned/dry items
- Water
- Sugar-free and regular gelatin and popsicles
- Diet and regular soda – preferably caffeine-free
- Insta Glucose or glucose tabs
- Contact numbers for medical team (both endocrinologist and primary care physician)
- Contact numbers for family and close friends
- A list of your medical problems and current medications
- If you have a child, a list of physician's orders on file in his or her school or daycare
- Ketone strips (if needed)
- Glucagon kit (if type 1)
- Thermometer
- Medical Alert Bracelet
- Extra test strips and lancets for testing
- Cool pack or insulated bag for storing diabetes supplies (insulin, byetta, symelin)
For Pump Users
- Keep a supply of extra reservoirs and infusion sets available
- Keep vials of insulin and syringes in case your pump malfunctions
- Keep extra batteries
- Have an understanding of how to use your temporary basal program
People with diabetes face the same challenges as anyone else during an emergency, with the addition of lack of access to diabetes supplies and appropriate food, Saul says.
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Emergency Dos and Don'ts
- Do be prepared. Emegencies cause anxiety and knowing you're prepared will lessen your anxiety.
- Do continue to take your normal diabetes medications. Stress can make your blood glucose rise.
- Do check your blood glucose more frequently.
- Do call your health care team if you don't know what to do.
- Don't panic.
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Is there value for marketers in Pinterest traffic? A number of recent reports on the social site's ability to drive traffic and influence sales offer conflicting results.
Pinterest users do seem to convert and spend more when they do. However, Pinterest users are converting at lower rates than through other social channels like Facebook or Twitter.
Pinterest's popularity is undeniable. Earlier this year, TechCrunch reported on exclusive comScore data showing that Pinterest had hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors in January. This made it the fastest ever website to surpass the 10 million mark. This week, though, a ReadWriteWeb post suggests it's a great tool for marketers in a traffic-only revenue model, but no so good for those actually selling online.
Citing a web services company with clients from a variety of industries using Pinterest, RWW cautions readers that the jury isn't it just yet on Pinterest. Despite 20 to 80 percent increases in referral traffic to client sites in food-related niches, Cathy Tibbles of DWSP Website Services told RWW, "…we have yet to see any measurable increase in sales. One logical conclusion is that Pinterest is drawing a certain crowd – a window-shopping crowd."
Pinterest Isn't Driving Sales? Why Blanket Statements Are Dangerous
Then, under the confusing headline "Pinterest Isn't Responsible for Sales", RWW went on to reveal that online home goods store Wayfair has reported that Pinterest referrals result in a 65 percent increase in order amount, compared to the average site order.
The truth, as with many things online marketing-related, lies somewhere in the middle. Pinterest clearly is responsible for sales, for some. In February, I interviewed Steve Gerenscer from Steam Driven Media, a company that has been using Pinterest for their clients' marketing needs almost since its inception.
Gerenscer shared a number of client stories, including one of a fitness site that had 73,000 unique visits from Pinterest in 20 days, 95 percent of which were new visits. The mobile Pinterest site drove an additional 6,324 visits.
He noted that they were converting at about 1 percent, which was lower than their conversion from other channels. The sheer volume more than made up for the lower rate, though, he explained. Gerenscer also shared the average conversion rate from Pinterest traffic to jewelry sites: 4 to 5 percent.
Another marketer, Jeffrey Zwelling from Convertro, writes in VentureBeat that his company has seen social media revenue for e-commerce sites from Pinterest increase from 1.2 percent in Q2 2011 to its present high of 17.4 percent. In fact, Pinterest is quickly gaining on Facebook as a driver of converting traffic, he said.
So what can we learn from these seemingly conflicting reports and a new infographic or 10 on Pinterest marketing each week? There are valuable user insights surfacing that can help marketers convert lookers to buyers.
1. Majority of Pinterest Users Fall In $25-75k Income Range
Though the Modea infographic calls out that 28.1 percent of Pinterest users are well off and bringing in more than $100,000 per year, the majority make between $25,000 and $75,000. Erin Ledbetter from Ignite Social Media Blog highlighted this and a number of other user insights in her recent post, The Marketers Guide to People Who Pin.
The post highlights a number of helpful data points (e.g., only 25 percent of Pinterest users have a bachelor's degree or higher; Pinterest users are more likely to live in midwest states in the U.S.). However, Ledbetter offers in-depth looks into three types of Pinners: Boomers & Boomerangs, Babies & Bliss, and Families Matter Most. For each, there are tips to identify the type of pinner, what types of pins may interest them, and what their boards may look like.
2. Many Online Shoppers Buy Items They've Seen on Image-Sharing Sites; More Do Not
Thirty-two percent of online shoppers have made a purchase after seeing an item on Pinterest or similar image-sharing sites, according to a recent BizRate survey covered in Internet Retailer. However, 37 percent saw something they wanted to buy, but did not.
Why not? There could be as much intelligence in the reasons consumers don't buy as in studying those who do. How easy is it to navigate the e-commerce site? Where are you losing people in the purchasing process? Any site drawing a substantial amount of traffic from Pinterest but losing out in the closing process should consider an audit of their e-commerce site and shopping cart to test usability.
3. Pinterest Traffic Less Likely to Purchase But Spend 70 Percent More
Earlier in this post, we referenced Wayfair and their success in Pinterest marketing. A comparison of their average order value from a Pinterest referral to those across all non-social channels, including search, is even more impressive. Though less likely to purchase, those who do spend 70 percent more when coming from Pinterest.
"Visual imagery drives inspiration, it's what makes you want to buy it," Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah told Mashable. "We sell things [on our sites] in the same way."
4. Users Most Likely 25-44, Spend More Time on Pinterest Than Facebook or Twitter
An infographic from Modea shares a number of user insights compiled from sources such as comScore and Shareaholic. The top age ranges for Pinterest users are 25-34 and 35-44 percent, with the average user spending 15.8 minutes on the site. This is topped only by YouTube, where users stay onsite 16.4 minutes, on average.
5. Cooking, Home Decorating, Crafting Top User Interests
More than 70 percent of Pinterest users surveyed said cooking inspiration and recipes were their number one interest on the site, according to a March PriceGrabber survey. They set out to learn more about the people who frequent Pinterest by surveying 4,851 U.S. online shoppers in early March 2012.
Home decorating, crafting, fashion, entertainment, and gardening were other top interests for Pinterest users. User demographics skew heavily toward women favoring the site, with only 31.8 percent men.
No Magic Pinterest Formula, Though Experience of Others Can Cut the Learning Curve
As with any other social channel (or Internet marketing channel in general), there is no magic formula for success on Pinterest. However, there are lessons to be learned from those already in the space experimenting.
Arnie Kuenn from Vertical Measures recently hosted marketers Mat Siltala, Janet Thaeler, Kaila Strong, and yours truly in a Google Hangout to talk Pinterest marketing tips and tricks for success in this most visual platform.
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You've got to view these majestic peaks in their natural habitat - the island of St. Lucia.
Authentic in Friis Bay
Restaurants come and go, but Miss Lucy's on St. John's south shore, has endured the test of island time.
A sweet birth
It's as quintessential to the Caribbean as the sun and the sea. But the roots of this simple but sweetly sublime imbibe began in Old San Juan Puerto Rico.
Welcome and a Weapon
Discover the diversity of this delectable Caribbean fruit.
An incredible oasis
The Parks of the U.S. and British Virgins Islands are a source of inspiration and exhilaration and help us connect with nature.
Near green flash photo, St. John, Virgin Islands. Photo by D.B. Bostdorf.
Around the Caribbean
Island aphrodisiacs
Traditional foods for love, like oysters and chocolate, may make you warm and fuzzy. But to really turn the heart up, you might want to explore special potions from the cupids of the Caribbean. Click for more.
Our food shouldn't travel more than we do
Bite into a piece of fruit and think about its origin. What about tonight's dinner? Do you know where it came from? Local farm produced roots, fruits and fresh caught fish are better for you and the environment too. Click for more.
Sunset party at Coconut Coast Studios
Art lovers converge for the weekly sunset party at Elaine Estern's Coconut Coast Studios, near Frank Bay's small stretch of sand. Click for more.
A vegan deli delights
Nature's way, a vegan deli offers a welcome respite from unhealthy island indulgences. A savvy selection of salads, sandwiches and wraps proves that good for you can also taste terrific. Click for more.
ARDA's Howard Nusbaum
In late October insiders were grabbing at his suit coat sleeves at the Eden Roc hotel in Miami, where industry professionals from around the globe converged at the 15th annual Shared Ownership Investment Conference. Click for more.
Timeshare demand high in Caribbean
The Caribbean is the top international choice among among U.S. timeshare vacationers, but the demand exceeds the inventory. Click for more.
Dazzling dining in St. John
Both visiting celebrities, and local residents flock to Alexandra Ewald's tiny restaurant in the center of St. John's Cruz Bay to experience the result of her creativity in the kitchen. Click for more.
Fresh fruits and roots at Connections
Island living unfortunately often means buying food that travels more than we do. But is possible to enjoy fresh fruits and roots, grown here in the Caribbean. You just got to know where to look. Click for more.
Look beyond the sun and rum
Caribbean island countries are brimming with pleasures and treasures you won't find anywhere else on the planet. They comprise a colorful multi-cultural kaleidoscope pulsating with magic and majesty. Click for more.
Palm Aruba joins Interval
Interval International, a worldwide provider of vacation services, has announced that Palm Aruba Condominiums, one of the island's newest developments, has joined its vacation exchange network. Click for more.


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[Note: Dwight is on vacation through next week. Technology Bytes host Peter Hughes will be handling the linkposts while he's out out.]
- Google push for faster zero day fixes hits a wall: Other companies – Why would anyone be against this?
- Chicago paper fires photogs, will train reporters on 'iPhoneography' – Will their profile pics be "selfies"?
- Today only: Best Buy iPhone trade-in extravaganza– Trade an iPhone 4 or 4s and you may be able to get an iPhone 5 for almost no charge.
- Retailers run low on Mac Pro ahead of WWDC – may suggest that Apple is about to refresh the Mac Pro
- Rumor: Apple gearing up supply chain for September launch of next-gen iPhone – When there are rumblings in the supply chain, it sometimes leads to cool new stuff.
- The Kickass Processors That Will Power Your Next Computer – Intel's brand new 4th generation processors
- Google Disallows Facial Recognition in Glass Apps – Worried about so-called "Glassholes" automatically identifying the faces of people around them? Google says it doesn't want that to happen, either.
- Razer's "Dime" Tease is World's Thinnest Gaming Laptop – it's a mere 0.66 inches thin, slightly shorter in height when compared to a 0.7 inch dime standing upright. Clever, but a bit misleading.


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Cheat Sheet
Mindfulness For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Whether you're suffering from stress, fatigue or illness or simply want to regain some balance in your life, mindfulness can help. These handy bite-size chunks of hands-on advice will help increase your understanding of mindfulness, outline some short meditations and provide enough information to enable you to inject mindfulness into your life.
Discovering Key Attitudes to Nurture Mindfulness
Your attitude to life makes all the difference. Use these attitudes to develop your capacity to be mindful, enabling you to live a more mindful life:
Curiosity – Become curious about your experience. How do you feel emotionally? What kind of thoughts are going through your head? What does your body feel like at the moment?
Acceptance – Acceptance doesn't mean resignation. Mindfulness is about accepting how you feel right now, rather than denying it. Acceptance first, change comes later.
Kindness – Bring a sense of warm and caring compassion to your moment to moment experience. Be aware of your moment to moment experience with your heart as well as your head.
Letting go – You don't need to try and hold on to pleasant experiences and push away unpleasant experiences. Have a sense of a light touch to your experience.
Non–judging – Observe whatever you are experiencing as it is, rather than classifying it into good or bad, like or dislike.
Non–striving – Allow yourself to experience whatever your experience is rather than creating a goal for some other experience and then striving to attain that different experience.
Patience – Change takes time. Foster your capacity to be patient.
Trust – Have confidence in the practice of mindfulness and in your inner self to guide you.
Beginner's mind – Nurture your sense of being a beginner rather than an expert. 'In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.'
Trying a Short Mindfulness Meditation
Your capacity to be mindful is most powerfully developed through mindfulness meditation. One of the most popular mindfulness meditations is mindfulness of breath. This involves being mindfully aware of your breath. Follow these steps to try mindfulness meditation out for yourself:
Be aware of the sense of your own breathing. You don't need to change the rate of your breath. Just feel the physical sensation of your breath entering and leaving the body.
You can feel the breath in the nose, the throat, the chest or down in your belly. If possible, try and feel the breath in the belly as it's more grounding and is more likely to make you feel relaxed.
When your mind wonders off into thoughts, bring your attention back. It is the nature of thoughts to take your attention away from whatever you want to focus on, and into thoughts about the past or future, worries or dreams. Don't worry about it.
As soon as you realise that you've been thinking about something else, notice what you were thinking about, and gently guide your attention back to your breath. You don't need to criticise yourself.
That's it. Mindfulness of breath is as simple as that. Bring a sense of the mindful attitudes to your experience such as curiosity, kindness and acceptance. You can do this exercise for as short as a minute, or as long as an hour.
Understanding the Three Aspects of Mindfulness
Mindfulness has three different aspects that operate together seamlessly to bring about a state of mindful awareness. Print out and pin up this list to remind yourself of what these are.
Intention – Your intention is what you hope to get from practising mindfulness. You may want stress reduction, greater emotional balance or to discover your true nature. The strength of your intention helps to motivate you to practise mindfulness on a daily basis, and shapes the quality of your mindful awareness.
Attention – Mindfulness is about paying attention to your inner or outer experience. Your mindful attention is mainly developed through various different types of meditation – either formal, traditional, or informal – when talking, cleaning or driving, for example.
Attitude – Mindfulness involves paying attention to certain attitudes, such as curiosity, acceptance and kindness.
Using Mindfulness to Cope with Difficult Emotions
We all have bad days; some are worse than others. When emotions become overwhelming, you can use this RAIN formula to help manage your feelings in a mindful way:
R – Recognise the emotion you're feeling. Name the emotion in your mind if you can.
A – Accept the experience you're having. Yes you probably don't like the feeling, but the reality is the emotion is here at the moment.
I – Investigate. Become curious about your experience. Where do you feel the emotion in your body? What kind of thoughts are going through your mind?
N – Non-identification. See the emotion as a passing event rather than who you actually are, just as different images are reflected in a mirror but are not the mirror. Different emotions arise and pass in you, but are not you, yourself. The most powerful step is non-identification. Have the attitude 'anger is arising and will soon pass away' or 'sadness is coming up in me, and at some point will dissolve'.
Sometimes you just need to do one step, whereas at other times you may want to work through the whole formula. Practise using the formula whenever you can, so when things become challenging for you, you'll find it easier to use.
Discovering the Core, Formal Mindfulness Meditations
To deepen your mindful awareness, you need to practise a formal mindfulness meditation on a daily basis. Familiarise yourself with some of the following mediations. In time, you will become more mindful in your day to day life.
Body Scan Meditation – This meditation involves spending about half an hour or so, becoming aware of each part of your body from the tips of your toes to the top of your head, in a mindful way. This meditation is usually practised lying down.
Sitting Meditation – This involves being mindful of your chosen object of attention whilst in a sitting posture. You can be mindful of your breath, your body, sounds, thoughts, emotions, or practise choice-less awareness.
Mindful Movement – Taking time to do some yoga or stretching in mindful way is a powerful way of developing your capacity to be mindful, whilst at the same time becoming stronger and more flexible. Walking slowly and mindfully is also considered a wonderful way to practise formal mindfulness meditation. You don't need to be physically still to practise meditation.
Learning about True Mindfulness
Mindfulness is more than a set of techniques to practice. Mindfulness is about questioning your identity and relationship to the world around you. By understanding who you are at a deeper level, you are less affected by negative emotions, thoughts or physical sensations – you're tackling the root of the problem. For these reasons, it's worth spending some time and effort to find out for yourself who you truly are. Try this:
Notice that your thoughts come and go. You are aware of your thoughts. You are that which is aware of thoughts – not the thoughts themselves.
Notice that your emotions come and go too. You are aware of the emotion rather than being the emotion itself. You are the observer of the emotion.
Observe that although your attention moves from one thing to another, your sense of being aware is always present. You're always aware of something. Awareness is always on, and completely effortless. You are that awareness itself.
Reflect on the statement: 'I cannot be that which I observe'. Just as your eye is not the book, because the eye is observing the book, so you are not your thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions because you are observing them. You are the witness of them. As the witness you are completely free of them.
Be as you are. You cannot become yourself, for you already are yourself! So, just relax and be as you are – effortless awareness. Awareness is your natural state – what you always have been and always will be.
One of the most famous sages of the 20th Century, Nisargadatta put is this way: "Discover all that you are not – body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that – nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive."
Practising Day-to-Day, Informal Mindfulness
The great thing about mindfulness is that you can practise it any time. Informal mindfulness meditation is when you practise mindfulness without carving out a special time for it. Here are ten examples of informal mindfulness meditation:
Mindful communication – When you are speaking or listening to someone else, become aware of the sound of your own voice, or the voice of the other person. Each time your mind wonders off into other thoughts, kindly guide your attention back to the conversation without criticising yourself if you can.
Mindful walking – The next time you're walking somewhere, notice the sense of touch between your feet and the ground. Observe how your weight seamlessly transfers from one foot to the other, almost effortlessly. Smell the roses. Be in the presence of the present moment.
Mindful exercise – The next time you're in the gym, going for a jog, swimming or playing a sport, become mindful of what's going on. Focus your mindful attention on your own body, thoughts, emotions or the environment around you. Become curious about your experience.
Mindful working – Whatever your work is, by paying more attention to what you're doing, you're bound to achieve better results. Try reducing the amount of effort you make to pay attention, and let the focus be effortless, relaxed and calm, as best you can.
Mindful holidays – It's easy to spend half your holiday thinking about the next holiday rather than actually being there. Feel the gentle warmth of the sun, put the camera down every now and then and connect with the scenery with your own eyes. Breathe the fresh air. Be grateful for having the time and money to go on holiday.
Mindful waiting – You need to wait in a queue in shops, in your car, on public transport. Instead of becoming frustrated, practise some mindfulness of breath. When you're in traffic, notice the colour of the sky or trees. When in a supermarket, feel the calming sensation of your own breath.
Mindful listening to music – Get yourself comfortable, switch on your favourite piece of music and simply listen, moment by moment. As usual, after a while your mind will begin thinking of other things – just gently guide your mindful attention back to the sounds of the music. Be aware of both the sounds and the silence between the sounds. Notice how all sounds arise and fall back into the ever-present silence.
Be accepting of others – Allow other people to be human and make mistakes. Be prepared to accept apologies and forgive others for their indiscretions.
Stimulate your appetite for knowledge and experience – Stretch yourself by reading, studying and taking on new skills.
Live in the moment – Pause to sniff those roses. Take a break from speculating about the future and sifting over the past. Instead, put the full weight of your attention into the here and now.


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BlackBerry on the brink: Security kink sinks rinky-dink Link sync in a blink
Update your mobe's desktop software, then have a drink
Hapless BlackBerry has told users to update its software on their Mac OS X and Windows computers following the disclosure of a fairly serious security flaw.
The Canadian handset maker said the vulnerability exists in selected versions of its freely available Link application – a program that allows you to transfer files between your BlackBerry mobes and an Apple or Microsoft-powered computer. Users are urged to upgrade to the latest available builds, which are not vulnerable to the discovered blunder.
The flaw stems from the fact that Link provides access to the user's files via a WebDAV server that can be accessed over the network and yet doesn't perform any authentication checks. This clears the way for an attacker, under certain conditions, to elevate their login privileges and run arbitrary commands by tricking another user into clicking on a specially crafted web link or visiting a malicious web page.
More details on how the WebDAV file server can be exploited remotely can be found here, on the personal blog of Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, who reported the flaw to BlackBerry. Ollie Whitehouse also separately alerted BlackBerry to the cockup.
BlackBerry said that in addition to updating the Link software to a patched release, users and administrators can apply certain mitigation techniques to guard against exploitation of the flaws. Those tips include removing the remote file sharing directory in Link.
According to recent analyst reports, the number of people who will need to install a Link update could be as low as it has ever been. Researchers at IDC estimated that 1.7 per cent of smartphones sold last quarter ran a BlackBerry OS.
For the admins whose companies who still run the BlackBerry platform, an update for BlackBerry Link will pile on to what has already been a heavy load of security patches this week. Along with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday bundle, Adobe pitched a set of fixes for its ubiquitous Flash Player tool as well as the ColdFusion application server. ®
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Originating in Los Angeles, the band featured various line-ups, before founding member Coy relocated to the East Coast in late 2013, the last of which recording an EP of eclectic piano-based pop with Pierre de Reeder of Rilo Kiley (the collection, Cut-Offs, saw release in February of 2014).
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With the support of their teachers students also go back into their own schools and encourage the further development of the school's student leadership arrangements through the enhanced knowledge, shared practice and new ways of working they have experienced at the events. It also provided the template for "in house" business challenge activities. The opportunity to cascade the benefits is therefore an important part of this approach. Recent comment in the Ofsted report from one of the schools involved: Pupils are well prepared for the next stage in their education, training or employment.
Need identified
SWISS was born in 2006 as a direct result of various reports on the lack of aspiration in the area, poor participation and achievement post 16. The result was Suffolk One. Since then the partnership has embraced collaborative working. It is about adding challenge and developing and delivering initiatives which enhance the opportunities available to our young people thereby raising their aspirations and levels of achievement.
Programmes are delivered to students, governors and staff and include:-
• High quality curriculum developments.
• Clearer progression pathways.
• Specific projects and initiatives aimed at young people.
• Targeted provision for those at risk of "dropping out."
• Leadership in governance
• Joint staff development opportunities.
• Improved transition arrangements.
• Links with other schools and colleges of all phases.
• More effective and efficient approaches to service delivery.
• Shared staff.
• Developing new and different joint approaches to the provision of services such as ICT, Hard and Soft services and HR.
This year has seen Key stage 3 students from the eight 11-16 schools from MATs, sponsored academies and LA schools, taking part in the following joint activities:-
• Leadership Conference for Year 7.
• Leadership Conference for Year 9.
• Futures 4 Us event for Year 8
• Business Challenge Cup.
• STEM challenge.
• Over 400 students are involved and are introduced to the development of leadership skills, ways in which to develop confidence, resilience; communication and presentation skills, problem solving and working in creative and innovative ways. Real business challenges are set and working with leaders from business and industry the young people understand, become involved and resolve real issues.
• For example, in the business challenge cup, the teams from each school compete over four challenges involving logistics, customer relations, construction and architecture. These are supported by local companies who present to them real-life scenarios and experiences;
• Some of the other conferences are structured to encourage pupils to work together with peers from other schools, whilst others employ an element of competition;
Schools are encouraged to take part in some activities before the conferences/challenges, to enable more pupils to benefit from the learning and to ensure that the competitors are committed to the events.
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There are costs for supply for the supporting teachers, but most business and commercial speakers and facilitators give their time free. There is also the cost of hiring a space large enough to host the events. Students are treated in the same way as adults would expect to be when attending a conference or training event i.e. good facilities, materials and resources provided, name badges, good presenters etc. Each event run over one day and always on a Friday.
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Pupils talk at length of the way in which the challenges raise their confidence, build key skills and provides them with an understanding of the world of work. They also comment that the tasks and activities make them 'think differently!' Exposure to quickly developing new relationships and forming working teams helps to build self-esteem and communication skills.
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Our purpose as an organisation is to be a cultural instigator for the creation generation. This is an ambition that we will deliver together as a group of museums and heritage sites to help fulfill the cultural goals of the 2030 Qatar National Vision. Our brand purpose also aligns with our organisational vision to develop, promote and sustain the cultural sector at the highest standards.
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Starting your career with EY is the first step toward achieving your potential. Our development framework is called EYU – EY and you – and it provides you with the skills, knowledge, and confidence you need to take ownership of your career.
Your development is at the heart of our culture. It contributes to an engaging and positive workplace, provides opportunities to reward and recognize you, and helps deliver a differentiated service to our clients. In short, it is the foundation of success – yours and ours. Of course, the pace is fast and the work can be challenging, but there's a lot of support too.
There are three key aspects to your development here: Learning, Experiences and Coaching. Use the tabs to explore what each of them means.
There are two parts to our global learning curriculum. The first is designed to build your general business skills and acumen. The second is designed to constantly refresh and enhance your technical skills across our service lines so you can provide an enhanced service and in turn form better client relationships. Aside from business skills you'll learn much about building relationships and leading people.
We currently offer more than 16,000 courses on our learning management system. Much of the learning we offer is web-based, and much of it can be tailored to suit both your practical needs and the direction your career is headed.
Whichever direction your career at EY takes, we have a number of milestone learning events to mark your progress, from Welcome to EY as a new joiner to the New Partner Program.
We know that the most enriching and career-enhancing experiences are gained on the job, and we recognize this as a formal part of our career development framework. We do all we can to help you get the experiences you need.
With that in mind, our service lines plan assignments in ways that not only give our clients high-quality service, but also provide all our people with the best environment for their career development.
Client secondments, cross-border and cross-service-line placements, both short- and long-term, domestic and international, are a real possibility. This enables you to work in different environments, which offer exciting and challenging experiences through a wide variety of assignments.
It will help you develop an inclusive mindset and thrive in an increasingly global market while matching our clients' needs.
We also encourage you to use your professional skills to give back to the community. This will not only benefit others but will also add to your career and your life – enhancing your leadership, communication or project-management skills.
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You'll get plenty of close attention in the early weeks and months – and you'll have a counselor who'll become an expert in you and your career development. They'll work with you to consider all the feedback you receive and help you find the career path that will take you in the right direction, fastest.
We provide our people with the highest-quality feedback and coaching. We have increased our investment in formal coaching and we also appoint coaching champions to create programs and give feedback to leadership.
Our mentoring program offers a chance for a combination of formal, structured conversations and less formal, ad hoc contact.
On-the-job coaching conversations are hands-on interactions that occur in the context of daily work, that help you gain a broader perspective, increase clarity and address particular issues and challenges.
Coaching results in improved performance through practical learning and less rework. Working with a colleague who is capable of coaching you on a work-related issue can often help you gain deeper insight into your own work performance.
In addition to performance reviews, career development conversations are also an important aspect of coaching at EY. These conversations should challenge you to explore your individual interests, aspirations, needs and options. They also create meaningful goals – both from an annual and a longer-term perspective.
Performance conversations allow the counselee and counselor to look back and evaluate performance by bringing together and considering multiple views. These reviews help leverage your strengths and address your development needs.
Mentoring provides support, insights and practical advice on a variety of professional development and career topics. Mentoring differs from on-the-job coaching, which provides daily support on work-related topics. At EY, we encourage our experienced professionals to provide mentoring to less experienced colleagues, through initiatives such as the Career Advisor program.


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T and O map
A T and O map or O-T or T-O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), is a type of medieval world map, sometimes also called a Beatine map or a Beatus map because one of the earliest known representations of this sort is attributed to Beatus of Liébana, an 8th-century Spanish monk. The map appeared in the prologue to his twelve books of commentaries on the Apocalypse.
History and descriptionEdit
The T-O map represents the physical world as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville in his Etymologiae (chapter 14, de terra et partibus):
Latin: Orbis a rotunditate circuli dictus, quia sicut rota est [...] Undique enim Oceanus circumfluens eius in circulo ambit fines. Divisus est autem trifarie: e quibus una pars Asia, altera Europa, tertia Africa nuncupatur.
English: The [inhabited] mass of solid land is called round after the roundness of a circle, because it is like a wheel [...] Because of this, the Ocean flowing around it is contained in a circular limit, and it is divided in three parts, one part being called Asia, the second Europe, and the third Africa. [1]
Although Isidore taught in the Etymologiae that the Earth was "round", his meaning was ambiguous and some writers think he referred to a disc-shaped Earth. However, other writings by Isidore make it clear that he considered the Earth to be globular.[2] Indeed, the theory of a spherical Earth had always been the prevailing assumption among the learned since at least Aristotle, who had divided the spherical earth into zones of climate, with a frigid clime at the poles, a deadly torrid clime near the equator, and a mild and habitable temperate clime between the two.
The T and O map represents only the one half of the spherical Earth.[3] It was presumably considered a convenient projection of known-inhabited parts, the northern temperate half of the globe. It was then believed that no one could cross the torrid equatorial clime and reach the unknown lands on the other half of the globe. These imagined lands were called antipodes.[3][4]
The T is the Mediterranean, the Nile, and the Don (formerly called the Tanais) dividing the three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa, and the O is the encircling ocean. Jerusalem was generally represented in the center of the map. Asia was typically the size of the other two continents combined. Because the Sun rose in the east, Paradise (the Garden of Eden) was generally depicted as being in Asia, and Asia was situated at the top portion of the map.
This qualitative and conceptual type of medieval cartography could yield extremely detailed maps in addition to simple representations. The earliest maps had only a few cities and the most important bodies of water noted. The four sacred rivers of the Holy Land were always present. More useful tools for the traveler were the itinerarium, which listed in order the names of towns between two points, and the periplus that did the same for harbors and landmarks along a seacoast. Later maps of this same conceptual format featured many rivers and cities of Eastern as well as Western Europe, and other features encountered during the Crusades. Decorative illustrations were also added in addition to the new geographic features. The most important cities would be represented by distinct fortifications and towers in addition to their names, and the empty spaces would be filled with mythical creatures.
The world map from the Saint-Sever Beatus, dating to ca. AD 1050.
Map centred on Delos according to Greek tradition, from a French manuscript of Henry of Huntingdon, late 13th century
Bünting Clover Leaf Map. A 1581 woodcut, Magdeburg. Jerusalem is in the center, surrounded by Europe, Asia and Africa.
See alsoEdit
- ^ Isidore of Seville (c. 630). "14". Etymologiae.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Stevens, Wesley M. (1980). "The Figure of the Earth in Isidore's 'De natura rerum'". Isis. 71 (2): 268–277. doi:10.1086/352464. JSTOR 230175.
- ^ a b Michael Livingston, Modern Medieval Map Myths: The Flat World, Ancient Sea-Kings, and Dragons Archived 2006-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, 2002.
- ^ Hiatt, Alfred (2002). "Blank Spaces on the Earth". The Yale Journal of Criticism. 15 (2): 223–250. doi:10.1353/yale.2002.0019.
Further readingEdit
- Crosby, Alfred W. (1996). The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55427-6.
- Lester, Toby (2009). The fourth part of the world: the race to the ends of the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America its name. New York, NY: Free Press. ISBN 9781416535317.
- Carlo Zaccagnini, 'Maps of the World', in Giovanni B. Lanfranchi et al., Leggo! Studies Presented to Frederick Mario Fales on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012, pp. 865–874. ISBN 9783447066594
- Mode, PJ. "The History and Academic Literature of Persuasive Cartography". Persuasive Cartography, The PJ Mode Collection. Cornell University Library. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
- Brigitte Englisch, Ordo orbis terrae. Die Weltsicht in den Mappae mundi des frühen und hohen Mittelalters. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003635-4


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While China's huge reserve of cotton is applying negative pressure to cotton prices, world yarn production outside of China is pushing them higher, say market analysts speaking at the Ag Market Network's January conference call. The panel spoke about cotton fundamentals following USDA's Jan. 11 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.
World cotton fundamentals for 2012-13 were bearish on the surface, with increasing world production and lower consumption. Also bearish were estimated world ending stocks, which reached an all-time high of 82 million bales, up 2 million from last month. USDA estimated world production at around 119 million bales and consumption at 106 million bales.
China is hanging on to about half of the world's ending stocks, noted O.A. Cleveland, professor emeritus, Mississippi State University, and no one is exactly sure of how it plans to dispose of them.
"The Chinese have bought something around 25 million to 26 million bales directly from its cotton producers. They're paying their cotton farmers directly for their cotton."
It's a policy that Chinese decision makers are starting to question, said Cleveland, noting that the government's investment in the pile of cotton is about $32 billion.
Cleveland says that the Chinese "are finally beginning to reduce their stocks, selling them to the mills at somewhere around a $1.35 to $1.38 a pound."
However, Chinese textile mills can import cotton for about $1.19, which puts them at a competitive disadvantage if they have to turn to domestic cotton. "As a consequence, the Chinese textile industry is importing yarn rather than buying from spinners," Cleveland said.
This has been a positive for U.S. exports, Cleveland said. "The yarn is coming from other Asian countries, including India and Pakistan. While Chinese consumption is down a little bit from last year in the spinning mills, yarn imports are up considerably. This implies exports from the United States to the countries that sell yarn to the Chinese. Large volumes of yarn have led to a significant increase in demand for U.S. cotton."
This was reflected in USDA increasing U.S. exports from 11.8 million bales to 12.2 million bales for 2012-13, a 400,000 bales increase in just one month. "Consumption is an extremely bright light because it's coming completely from exports, which were supposed to be lagging.
"I would suggest that USDA has another 400,000 bales to 600,000 bales to go," Cleveland said. "Exports will probably end up somewhere around 12.6 million to 12.8 million bales. That's a huge jump from where we are right now. Most countries are fairly uncovered with respect to their mill needs."
Cotton prices have room to move higher, but not significantly, according to Cleveland. "The big question is what China will do with the large reserve of cotton stocks on hand. I think it's clear from Chinese policy that they haven't decided what to do. But they have over $30 billion invested in the stocks that they've bought. We don't see any reason why they would dump that cotton on the market. They dump the cotton on the market and they will destroy their investment."
Carl Anderson, Extension professor emeritus, Texas A&M University, says the surging yarn sales "are the underlying force in the market. One reason why the market is strong is because two-thirds of the global use of cotton is taking place outside of China."
Anderson says China's huge stocks will keep the market "from going to extreme highs. So we're dealing with a market that wants to move sideways 5 cents to 8 cents. It's a market that's quite different from a year ago, when we had such a big move from high prices to low prices in the first half of the year."
Anderson sees a range for old crop cotton in the low 70s to high 70s, and 75 cents to 85 cents for new crop cotton. "Based on the information we're seeing now, we're looking at a market that is not likely to go above 89 cents, or drop below 69 cents for the crop that were going to plant."
Cleveland sees excellent support for old crop at 77 cents to 79 cents a pound. "A month to six weeks from now, we could push it into the very low 80s. In new crop, I would start pricing at 79 cents to 79.5 cents. I'm uncomfortable getting above the high 80s, because of the Chinese stocks. I don't think the Chinese stocks are bearish on this market. They are put away. They are not available. The Chinese have far too much invested, and they have worked for three years to push cotton prices high. I'm comfortable with the mid-80s in new crop."


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