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In our neighbouring countries of Belgium and Germany, the choice may be larger, but our (growing) offer of locally brewed beer can surely compete when it comes to taste and quality.
The offer ranges from beers brewed in historical breweries with a long tradition, to new craft beers from start-up breweries, and everything in between.
Luxembourg even exports beers, to countries such as Belgium, Germany, and China!
Since 1991 'Crémant' has been Luxembourg's answer to French Champagne, quickly becoming an all-time favourite.
Just like the champagne method, Crémant is made of grapes harvested by hand and fermented in the bottle. By the way, Luxembourg is one of the few countries allowed to produce the sparkling wine named Crémant outside France.
Luxembourgish Crémant regularly impresses juries at international competitions and remains our drink of choice to toast those special moments. Prost!
Riesling, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Chardonnay, Auxerrois, Rivaner, Elbling, Gewürztraminer and Pinot Noir – those are the main grape varieties one can find in Luxembourg, mainly along the Moselle, due to its mild climate.
Since Roman times, a genuine wine culture has developed, with at its heart, wine tastings, festivals and all kinds of festivities.
Meet you at the Moselle, for a glass of wine, or two!
A favourite of our culinary culture, and not merely for its phonetics. There is no local fair, or Schueberfouer, without our tasty 'Gromperekichelcher', rounded off with some delicious apple sauce.
For most Luxembourgers, these fried potato cakes bring back childhood memories, and of course Grandma's are always the best.
Make sure you get to taste one!
This cheesy spread may be a tricky one to pronounce. But that slice of bread with Kachkéis is so yummy!
You can find similar spreads in Franche-Comté or in Lorraine, France, but the original 'Kachkéisse-Schmier' is only to be found in Luxembourg.
What makes it so special? The cheese is melted, not cooked. Luxembourgers particularly enjoy it with a thin layer of mustard on top. Have a taste!
Haute Cuisine
Luxembourg not only boasts a cuisine as diverse as its population but also the highest density per capita of Michelin-starred restaurants in the world.
This circumstance is probably due to the proximity of France, where culinary culture is highly developed and Haute Cuisine has its origins.
For one reason or another, in Luxembourg, there is always a valid excuse to try a new restaurant. Bon appétit! E Gudden! Enjoy!
Spoilt for choice in front of a summer barbecue, one safe bet, and big favourite in Luxembourg, is the 'Lëtzebuerger Grillwurscht'. Made from pork, it's a cousin of the famous 'Thüringer Bratwurst'. You will hardly find any local event, town fair or summer barbecue in Luxembourg without at least a couple of these locally produced, savoury sausages featuring high on the menu. Actually, during the warm and sunny spring and summer, barbecuing is quite popular in Luxembourg. According to an unofficial estimate, every second household is a proud owner of a barbecue! And the cherry on the cake, so to speak? Some tasty 'Lëtzebuerger Moschtert' (mustard) on the Grillwurscht! So, let's light the charcoal!
In Luxembourg, the 'Rieslingspaschtéit' is the queen of pies, a culinary tradition and heritage of a kind. A meat pie with wine jelly, somewhat longish in shape like a log, with a hole on the top, decorated with a crown. Cut a slice, and discover its deliciousness: a marinated veal filling, accompanied by a perfectly matching Riesling jelly, from Luxembourg of course. Downside? The preparation is time-consuming and requires patience and discipline. But hey, you find them in every bakery across the country… To be enjoyed cold and, in terms of drinks, best accompanied by a glass of Riesling, naturally! E gudden Appetit!


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Embroidery adds beautiful color and detail to any cloth or piece of clothing. Learning some basic embroidery stitches can open up a world of different possibilities for you to pursue, from making clothes to sculptures.
What Is Embroidery?
Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric with a needle and some thread or yarn. It may also involve stitching other decorative elements to the cloth, such as seed pearls or sequins. There are many different embroidery stitches, which can help give different texture and appearance to your finished piece. If you're planning on learning how to sew and decorate children's clothes, get acquainted with a few different embroidery stitches as well.
Why Learn Embroidery Stitches
When many people think of embroidery they may picture an older woman like their grandmother stitching away on a piece of cloth stretched tight within a hoop making a "sampler". And if that's the image that pops into your head, you'll probably be surprised to learn that there are a lot more modern and relevant reasons to learn some embroidery stitches. Embroidery adds a lot of color, detail and interest to just about any fabric. Therefore, learning a few different stitches can allow you to:
- Make and decorate Halloween costumes
- Make and decorate costumes representing several different cultures
- Put some finishing touches onto a quilt you're learning to make
- Add some mixed media and texture to various art pieces, such as the art of painting silk
- Decorating clothing with a variety of different images, such as stitching flowers onto a pair of child's overalls, or flowering vines onto the collar of a woman's coat
Once you get familiar with some very basic embroidery stitches, you'll begin to see the many different ways you can use this art in the world around you.
Supplies for Embroidering
While it's entirely possible to embroider on just about any fabric, it's a good idea to begin your practice with a few basic supplies. Once you get used to the way the needle and thread behave, and you learn the basics of the stitches, you can begin to branch out and start stitching on other materials.
To get started, take the time to invest in some of the following supplies:
- Linen or Aida fabric – these fabrics are great to practice in because the squares they are made of are so visible they'll help you keep track of where you are in your pattern or design.
- Embroidery floss – just like yarn, you'll find that embroidery floss comes in a variety of weights, colors, and materials. Just like when you learned how to knit, you'll want to try a few different varieties out to see how they work and learn which you like best.
- Needles – embroidery needles are much larger than traditional sewing needles, and also typically have a larger eye to accommodate various counts of the floss.
- Hoop – as you get started, you may want to consider using a hoop to pull your fabric taut. This will help give you the most even stitches and allow you to see larger sections of your work at a time.
- Graph paper – once you've learned the basic stitches, you'll also probably want to play around with creating a pattern. Graph paper can help you sketch it out evenly so you can transfer it to your fabric without getting it lopsided.
Basic Embroidery Stitches
There are essentially four categories of embroidery stitches – outline, border, detached, and filling. Within these categories there are multiple stitches that you can use to create a variety of different looks. Learning one from each category will give you a good foundation to begin building your skill on.
Running Stitch
The running stitch is a basic outlining stitch used to go around the perimeter of an image.
- Thread your needle and knot off the end. Start your stitch on the underside of the fabric.
- Run the needle up through the fabric and pull the thread taut.
- Move the needle over about 1/8 of an inch and pull it back down into the fabric to make your first stitch, but do not pull the thread through.
- Poke the needle back up through the fabric 1/16 of an inch away from your first stitch, then pull the thread through.
- Repeat to form the rest of the stitches.
Blanket Stitch
The blanket stitch gets its name for its ability to finish the raw edge of a blanket. This border stitch can be used to put together two pieces of fabric, or to create a decorative border in a straight or curved line.
- Start at the left edge of the fabric.
- Bring the needle down at the bottom of where you want the stitch made, and up again at the top.
- Before you pull the thread taut, run the needle back through the loop you made, then repeat the stitch.
Lazy Daisy Stitch
This is a detached stitch that can be used to form leaves or flowers. To make a flower, make several of these stitches in a circle; leaves are made by using one stitch.
- Pull the needle from the back of the fabric up until taut.
- Push the needle back down right next to the place where you pulled it up, but do not pull taut.
- Gently pull the thread until you get a small loop.
- Come up at the top of the loop, and stitch down over it to shape and hold it in place.
Satin Stitch
The satin stitch is a filling stitch used to cover fairly large areas at a time.
- Pull the needle up from below the fabric at the far side of where you want to cover.
- Pull the needle across the fabric to the other side and down.
- Bring the needle back up right next to where you started the first stitch and down where it went in the last time. Repeat.
Start Stitching
Learning some embroidery stitches can open the door to a whole world of different crafts and creations. Get started today with these basic stitches and see where the possibilities take you.

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Brief of Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for Writ of Certiorari in British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States, No 09-980
35 Pages Posted: 24 Mar 2010 Last revised: 1 Apr 2010
Date Written: March 18, 2010
This amicus brief urges the United States Supreme Court to grant certiorari in the case American Tobacca (Investments) Ltd. v. United States, No 09-980. The appeal raises important issues implicating legislative jurisdiction, the effects test, and the presumption against extraterritoriality in the context of a civil RICO action. The D.C. Circuit below did not address the difficult question of whether Congress intended RICO to apply to the foreign conduct of nonnationals – an issue on which the lower courts are divided. Instead, the court of appeals embraced an approach that treats regulation of foreign conduct as domestic, not extraterritorial, regulation.
Amici submitted the brief to clarify the history and application of the effects test and to show how that history bears upon the proper interpretation of whether Congress intended a statute to reach extraterritorial conduct.The amicus brief argues that the U.S. Supreme Court should grant review for a number of reasons. The brief explains how the D.C. Circuit opinion has added confusion to an existing three-way split on the scope and application of the effects test. The brief also demonstrates how the meaning of the presumption of extraterritoriality and its interplay with the effects test is now in doubt.
Keywords: extraterritorial, territoriality, presumption against extraterritoriality, effects test, legislative jurisdiction, prescriptive jurisdiction, RICO, antitrust, interest-balancing, comity, international comity, geoambiguous, international law, transnational law
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The name given to the Christian chant of the Greek-speaking Orthodox Church. In 330 Constantine the Great made Byzantium (henceforth Constantinople) capital of the Roman Empire; but only in 527, with the coronation of Justinian I as emperor, did Byzantine liturgy, art, and music gain supremacy throughout the empire. Other important dates are 726–843 (the iconoclastic age), 1054 (the final break from Roman Catholicism), and 1453 (the sack of Constantinople by the Turks). During the course of the 11th century the introduction of new hymns was forbidden, and the power of the Byzantine Empire was broken with the establishment of the Latin Empire (1204–61). However, the restoration of the Eastern Empire in 1261 led to a renaissance which lasted for a century, followed by a gradual deterioration until the end of the empire.
Byzantine music and liturgy were dominated by its hymns, which adorned the Offices rather than the Mass. The troparion (later sticheron) was an intercalation between the verses of a psalm. The kontakion was a sermon in verse, sung after the reading of the Gospel at the Morning Office. At the end of the 7th century it was replaced by the kanon, consisting of nine odes of nine stanzas each: each ode had its own melody. Finally acclamations to the emperor were sung throughout the period; unlike music actually sung in church, these were accompanied by instruments, especially the organ.
Byzantine music, notated in neumes, is based on a system of eight modes (echoi), defined by characteristic melodic formulas as well as by tonality. The verse itself it is Semitic in origin. The comparative simplicity of earlier and middle Byzantine music gave way, at the end of the period, to a highly embellished style in which the balance between verse and music tended to be destroyed.
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Joe Girardi believes he will have Robinson Cano for tonight's game against the Rays.
"He is a little sore and a little stiff,'' Girardi said of Cano, who was hit on the left forearm in the seventh inning of the Yankees' 7-0 win Tuesday night and was replaced at second base by Jayson Nix at the start of the top of the eighth. X-rays were negative.
"I think he will be a player [Wednesday night],'' the Yankees manager said.
Cano, who had the arm in a compression wrap to reduce swelling, downplayed the drilling by Cesar Ramos.
"I knew it wasn't serious because I would have felt it right away,'' said Cano, who went 2-for-3 and said there was a little bit of pain in the arm. "I didn't want to be stupid, winning 7-0.''
David Robertson said he is without pain in his left rib cage. Neverthless, the right-handed reliever is also without a date to appear in a minor league rehab outing.
Robertson joined the Yankees last night and will throw bullpen sessions in front of pitching coach Larry Rothschild with the hope of going on a rehab assignment soon. Robertson threw a 35-pitch bullpen before Tuesday night's game.
Out since May 11, Robertson estimated he would be off the disabled list in "a week to 10 days." But first, a rehab assignment awaits.
"We will take it a day at a time,'' Girardi said. "He will have [Wednesday] off and another session [tomorrow]. If that goes well, maybe we can get him in a game after that.''
Whenever Robertson returns, it will be to the eighth-inning role he worked before Mariano Rivera suffering a knee injury on May 5.
"We are probably going to put Robby in some situations in the eighth inning when he comes back and go from there,'' said Girardi, who has watched Rafael Soriano go 7-for-7 in save chances since Rivera went down. "We feel they are interchangeable. Let's get Robby back and see how he is throwing the baseball.''
Robertson has no preference when he pitches, he just wants to work.
"As long as we win games,'' Robertson said.
Brett Gardner got five at-bats in an extended spring training game in Florida and according to Girardi, "everything went well.''
With extended spring about to end and Gardner scheduled only for batting practice today, the Yankees might have to find a minor league team to send him to for additional at-bats.
Gardner hasn't played since April 17 because of a strained right elbow. He had to stop a minor league rehab assignment on May 10 when the discomfort returned while swinging a bat. Asked if Gardner could rejoin the lineup this weekend against the Mets in a three-game Subway Series at the Stadium, Girardi didn't sound confident.
"I don't know. We aren't going to play him [today] and then we will probably play him a few days in a row and see how he does,'' Girardi said. "It's possible [the weekend], but we will have to see how he does.''
Derek Jeter (1,698,777) was second among AL All-Star vote-getters to Josh Hamilton (2,587,991). The initial round of ballots was released Tuesday.
Curtis Granderson was second among outfielders and Cano and Mark Teixeira were second at second and first base, respectively. Alex Rodriguez was fourth among third basemen.
Girardi hasn't received anything more than the standard letter from MLB notifying him he was fined for being ejected Saturday night in Detroit.
Further discipline for the hat-throwing tirade against umpire Bob Davidson would come via a conversation with Joe Torre.
Girardi saw Torre at Yogi Berra's rained-out golf tournament Monday in New Jersey. They talked, but according to Girardi the incident with Davidson did not come up.
The Yankees went without an error, keeping their total at 20, the lowest in the majors. In the past 13 games, the Yankees have made one error, a fielding miscue by right fielder Nick Swisher.
Mickey Mantle's Restaurant in Manhattan is closing but Tuesday an exhibit titled "Mickey Mantle: The Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hero'' opened at the New York Yankees Museum.
The Yankees hosted seven members of the USA Olympic freestyle wrestling team.
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New Delhi: December 1 is World AIDS Day and India has nearly 2.3 million HIV people living with HIV/AIDS. Shiba Phurailatpam, an HIV/AIDS survivor and activist for more than 20 years now said, "I have seen a family putting this guy in a small room in their house and pushing the food through that hole underneath the door saying you eat now. That was horrible and I have seen lots of kids less than an year-old thrown out by the in-laws because both parents died of AIDS."
An HIV survivor for the past 20 years, Shiba recounts a tough journey. A drug user during his youth, Phurailatpam probably was infected through shared needles, along with many of his friends. And the absence of treatment made matters worse. "20 years ago, people didn't know anything about HIV. Doctors and other medical people told us if you are only positive you have five-ten years to live."
But even with limited information, limited awareness, zero-support and faltering hope, Shiba didn't choose anonymity. Instead, at all of 23, he became one of the first few to fight for the rights of HIV-positive citizens. Today, Shiba works with the Asia Pacific Network of Positive People that spans across Thailand and other South-East Asian nations.
When the government declared free treatment for HIV-positive people in 2006, Shiba knew a huge step in the right direction had been taken. And although the road ahead is long, he knows there is light at the end of the tunnel. "I want to continue living like I am now and be a good father. I have a two-year-old son. And be a good person for those people who are in need - that is what I want."


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< Psychoanalysis at the C.E.C. | BEYOND COMMON SENSE | The Theory of Totalism >
This account of the Simpson kangaroo court, is a case study of political mind control at work. It is an illustration of high-minded principles being subordinated to crude psycho-politics. It should act as a warning that Australians are not immune from such techniques.
Michels And The Citizens Electoral Councils
'When faced with a threat to their authority or office from within the organisation the leaders will become extremely aggressive and will not hesitate to undermine many democratic rights. To lose command of the organisation is to lose that which makes them important individuals and hence they are strongly motivated to preserve their position even if it requires using repressive methods. They legitimize such behaviour by pointing out that a mass organisation is inevitably an organisation maintaining itself by the struggle with powerfull and evil opponents. Therefore all efforts to introduce factionalism into the organisation, to challenge the appropriateness of paily or organisational policy, resulting in aid or comfort to its enemies. Serious criticism of the leadership is thus defined as treachery of the organisation itself " (Page 18)
The CEC has developed a strictly hierarchical and pyramid like structure totally at odds with its founding charters and aspirations. The new "closed" arrangements are driven by fears of hostile takeovers and penetration, especially from British intelligence. This element of paranoid fear, apart from whether there is any truth in such fears, has been fanned from Leesburg, which sees a Redcoated Venetian plot behind every mind.
2. A Subservient Culture
"The masses experience a profound need to prostrate themselves. not simply before great ideals, but also before the individuals who in their eyes incorporate such ideals. Their adoration for these temporal divinities is the more blind in proportion as their lives are rude ... (and leaders being) the object of such adoration, megalomania is apt to ensue.
This overweening self-esteem on the part of leader diffuses a powerful suggestive influence, whereby the masses are confirmed in their admiration for their leaders and it proves a source of enhanced power.
3. The Leader As Hero
"The crowd always submits willingly to the control of distinguished individuals. The man who appears before them crowned with laurels is considered a priori to be a demi-God. If he consents to place himself at their head it matters little where he has gained his laurels, for he can count upon their applause and enthusiasm.
"The democratic masses are thus compelled to submit to a restriction of their own wills when they are forced to give their leaders an authority, which is in the long run destructive to the very principle o democracy. The leader's principle source of power is found in his indispensability. One who is indispensable has in his power all the lords and masters of the earth. (page 111)
"The incompetence of the masses is almost universal throughout the domains of political life, and this constitutes the most solid foundation of the power of the leader. The incompetence furnishes the leaders with a practical and to some extent with a moral justification. Since the rank and file are incapable of looking after their own interests, it is necessary that they should have experts to attend to their affairs." (Page 112, Michels)
Max Weber has also commented on the "charismatic" leader:
"the charismatic leader gains and maintains authority solely by proving his strength in life. " (40)
But for charisma to work on the masses then there has to be an exclusiveness and turning-off of other distractions:
"Charismatic domination means a rejection of all ties to any external order in favour of the exclusive gratification of the genius mentality of the prophet and hero.
Promotion of LaRouche to absurd proportions is just one of the tactics to keep office workers in line and hard at fund raising activities. It is the organisation's role to convince the organisation itself of this fact. With such blind assurance the organisation can ask for the supreme sacrifice. The LaRouche myth has degenerated to an organisational tool in Australia, and susceptible people have gone along with it all.
4. Crushing The Challenge
"In the struggle against the young aspirants, the old leaders can as a rule count securely upon the support of the masses.
In order to combat the new chiefs who are still in a minority, the old leaders of the majority, instinctively avaiil themselves of a series of underhand methods through which they often secure victory, or at least notably retard defeat ... By labelling the opposition incompetent, profane, terming them sprouters, corruptors of the party, demagogues, they describe themselves as the collective will, and demand the submission of the insubordinate and even of merely discontented comrades.
A main cultural feature of office practice at the CEC, a practice cultivated, encouraged and developed by the leadership is the culture of "the underhand method." Such a culture encourages spying, denigration, undermining, paranoia. It is of an authoritarian and undemocratic nature. In any mentally sane organisation it would be denounced as "backstabbing," "petty minded," and office infighting, but in the Australian LaRouche organisation it is an organisational tool, it is elevated to a semimystical process of cadre training. In the end it is corrupting. It encourages megalomania in its leaders and entrenches their paranoia.


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Diamond Brides #3
by Mindy Klasky
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-372-0
All's fair in love and baseball!
Hotheaded Tyler Brock has one huge strike against him when he arrives in Raleigh as the Rockets' star first baseman: he owes one hundred hours of community service for starting a bar fight. Lost in a new town with a new team, Tyler can't confide his greatest shame to anyone—he can't read.
When he's assigned to work for Emily Holt, he's in even bigger trouble. Emily is beautiful, uptight, and ready to shed her secret, unwanted virginity. They hit it off, in more ways than one. But when illiterate Tyler shirks his book-bound community service, Emily must hold him accountable.
Can this mismatched pair save each other by sharing their long-held secrets?
"This introduction to Mindy Klasky's Diamond Brides series is a heartfelt, conflict-ridden story as irresistible as its characters. It's also a whole lot of sexy, savvy fun….Super-strong conflict, a naughty, tongue-in-cheek tone and the occasional sweet surprise all put Perfect Pitch firmly in the you gotta read this category. Klasky's writing is top-notch, her pacing swift and sure."
—USAToday (reviewing the first volume of the Diamond Brides Series)
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Thousands of talented young people face a "lost opportunity" because they can't access top jobs, unless employers take into account factors like whether a potential employee grew up in a poor neighbourhood, according to the report of a cross party MPs and peers inquiry into access to leading professions, published today. The report also urges a ban on unpaid internships.
The report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on social mobility, The Class Ceiling, highlights that contextual recruitment – where firms aim to identify candidates with the most potential by looking at their achievements in context to their social background – is only used by a small proportion of employers. But even when firms are using such methods, they are often not transparent about doing so, meaning many people from poorer backgrounds are unaware that they might be considered for a role.
The APPG inquiry followed the publication of the Sutton Trust's Leading People 2016 report which showed that the UK's top jobs– from MPs and journalists, to actors and musicians – remain disproportionately populated by alumni of private schools and Oxbridge, despite these educating only a small minority of the population.
It found that almost a third of MPs in the 2015 intake were independently educated. As are nearly a third of those FTSE 100 chief executives that were educated in the UK. Of all High Court and Appeals Court judges, nearly three quarters attended private schools, as did over half of the top 100 news journalists and over two-thirds of British Oscar winners.
Over four sessions, the inquiry explored what is being done to increase the numbers of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in professions such as law, finance, medicine, journalism and politics. Parliamentarians heard evidence from 33 figures from across these industries. Witnesses included Michael Sheen, a BAFTA-winning actor; David Morley, Senior Partner at Allen & Overy; Sacha Romanovitch, CEO of accountancy firm Grant Thornton; and Ben Gummer MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office.
Today's report draws on their evidence to outline how the government, universities, schools and employers can lead the way in improving social mobility by widening access to top jobs. In addition to a greater use of contextual admissions, the APPG is urging that the financial costs of accessing many jobs should be minimised as much as possible.
During the inquiry, unpaid internships were raised as a particular issue for young people trying to access jobs in the arts and media. Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair of the Arts Council and ITV, described them as 'the curse of the arts industry' and said that the expectation that young people will work for less than the national minimum wage was the major barrier for disadvantaged young people interested in accessing jobs in the creative industries.
The APPG would like to see unpaid internships banned so that no young person is unable to pursue their chosen career because they can't afford to work for free. They are also recommending that employers increase their efforts to make their recruitment less London-centric, by increasing regional outreach and covering travel costs for interviews or work experience placements.
In a cross-party foreword to the report, Justin Madders MP (Labour), Andrea Jenkyns MP (Conservative) and Baroness Tyler (Liberal Democrat) say:
"Our professions should reflect our communities and our country, and employers themselves would ultimately benefit from harnessing the broader experience and potential of the country as a whole and not just established groups.
"This business case for diversity was put forward by many who responded to this inquiry. By widening access to the professions, organisations benefit from an increased pool of skills and experience."
"Employers look for confidence, resilience, social skills and self-motivation in their employees, but for those who have had little to no exposure to extracurricular activities, work experience or mentoring, these skills can be difficult to acquire. A clear message from our evidence sessions was that we need to become better at inspiring our youngsters to reach their full potential, especially for those who start out at a disadvantage."
Justin Madders MP, Chair of the APPG on social mobility, added:
"We know that social mobility at the top of UK society is shamefully low. Throughout this inquiry we have heard from profession after profession that significant barriers exist to young people from less advantaged.
"If the current government is serious about improving access to top jobs for those from less advantaged homes, they need to take a much more strategic approach. This means linking the work of schools, universities and employers to build a real business case and practical plan for improving social mobility."
Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Chairman of the Sutton Trust and Chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation, said:
"Getting more graduates from low and middle-income backgrounds to the top of the professions is vital both for social mobility and the economic success of the country. Employers, supported by government, have to do more to improve diversity through their recruitment practices, including through greater use of contextual admissions. The Sutton Trust has set up several Pathways Programmes such as law, medicine and STEM in partnership with major employers. These enable students from low and middle-income backgrounds to access leading professions."
- The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility is a cross-party group of MPs and peers. Formed in 2011 to discuss and promote the cause of social mobility; to raise issues of concern and help inform policy makers and opinion formers. We seek to investigate the challenges for policy makers to ensure life chances are not limited by background. Justin Madders MP and Baroness Tyler of Enfield are co-chairs of the APPG on social mobility. Andrea Jenkyns MP is an APPG champion for this inquiry.
- The Sutton Trust provides secretarial support to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility and helped produce this report and organise evidence hearings.
- The report Leading People 2016 is available here.


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Religion has played its role in my life, most significantly during the last couple of years. I guess it has been a journey for me. I would like to think that I grew up in a mixed family; 50% of my roots are arabic and the other half cypriot. Extrapolating from that, there is a 1:2 chance that I would either grow up to be Muslim or Christian Orthodox.
Religion did not bother me much until a teacher of Religious Education-yes we have those where I grew up- descriminated me in front of the class. I can still remember him asking me outloud: "You are the Maronite, aren't you?" I looked at him puzzled; at that time I didn't know what that even meant. I thought he was asking for my surname… I did not give the incident much thought then but I flashbacks came back of the same scene, when the actual Maronite entered the class. And I knew her surname was not "Maronite". At that point, I decided to research it and realised that it was just an ethnoreligious minority in Cyprus. Maronites are a Catholic Christian entity, whose name comes from St. Maronas, an eremite living in Syria. A fellow student the actual Maronite, was eventually excused from class as we were going to go deep into Orthodox Christianism for the rest of the year. It was not spectacular, let me tell you that. We ended up memorising prayers by heart in order to get a good grade. Ironic how the government can blindfold children like that. Needless to say, by the end of the year I wish I had answered "Yes" to his initial question…
In my need to understand what Christianity really is, I religiously went to church during Easter time, following all the rules and listening to the chanting of the psalms to Jesus, God, Mary and the Holy Spirit. The language was hard to understand, the smell in the church was rather whoozy and the whole atmosphere felt rather heavy. People knew when to bow their heads, when to say "Amen", when to pray along. I was lost and felt like a stranger. I stuck through it because I wanted to understand. I still remember that Easter morning, when all the black vails fell down from the icons and everyone started banging their chairs in order to let everyone know that Jesus has risen. I must say the effect was dramatic and caught me by surprise. I did not expect a sudden burst of chaos and panic in the heavy, sad atmosphere I had experienced in the past couple of days. After that I got REALLY into it. I started asking that teacher numerous questions. He gave me answers which in the end somehow did not make sense and other times contradicted each other. I was not convinced.
As time passed, I only went to the obligatory gatherings at the church organised by the school. These were typically taking place either when the school year began or before the bigger events, like Christmas and Easter. For me God at the time was no one religion. God was synonymous to love in my mind back then. The rest I did not know or cared to know. So I became agnostic. This belief carried me through university.
In the mean time, my sister had converted to Islam. I cannot say I was taken aback, as she was even more confused as I was and even got into trouble for expressing her mind back in school. She said she felt at peace once she converted. I accepted that no questions asked but was not intrigued to understand Islam until we were in Cyprus during Ramadan time. I had asked her some questions in order to understand what Ramadan meant and why she was doing it. She explained as well as she could. Later I asked her to send me a copy of the Quran.
When I was even younger, we used to visit the rest of the family, my dad's palestinian family, who are living in Jordan. I would see my grandpa or grandma kneeling on the floor, then standing back again whilst whispering arabic. I felt that they were experiencing a unique moment and I were not to disturb them. Again, did not understand what was happening. My aunt at the time was trying to explain to me in broken English what was going on. I guess she did not know the word "pray" and kept repeating "Salah". Dad explained it to me in the end. The holy time with Allah happened often and I had to become 28 years old to really grasp the concept of Islam.
Some people choose to believe that we all learn something from every relationship in our lives. I came even closer to Islam because of a rather dysfunctional relationship. So, once it finally ended and after a rather long illness, I had realised that Islam and the retrospectively scant knowledge I had gained about it was the positive outcome of all the suffering. I visited the nearby Mosque, met with the Imam, asked questions and now I am learning arabic because I want to understand the Quran as best as I can. Once I converted to Islam, I felt free and at peace. My religious journey is still ongoing and I am definately not the best example of a muslim woman, as I am still learning. That might be offputting or even unexeptable to some. Personally I do not care what others think of me; I accept myself as is. I realise this when I am praying, especially during the days of Ramadan. Sometimes I do get distracted and do not feel the deep connection with Allah. Other times during the day I might say or do things that Allah or other muslims might not approve, i.e. I choose not to wear a headscarf or cover my body as intended. And yes, I do not hide away during Ramadan when I can eat during my period. There are things to contemplate upon, there are others where I am learning to cross a red line.
All in all, I am getting better at it. If I were to compare only the physical and mental part during the last 3 Ramadans I can say there has been significant progress. During the first year I was simply accompanying my sister during her journey. I was doing experimentally to feel what she was going through. Of course, by the afternoon I started having a headache, nausea, dizziness, and extreme tiredness. I ended up with having something to eat and rest. The second time around I had already been converted. I believe that this along with praying gave me the mental strength to begin and move forward. As for this year, it seemed to be a piece of cake on the physical part, I was more focused on the mental part. This was actually pointed to me by a dear friend of mine and that reminded me that when faith and connection are there, everything is possible. Other priorities seem now to be more important, like the intention to connect better with Allah and learn some so-called "Duas" and prayers by heart. It is also my intention and goal to fast every Monday and Thursday.
Ramadan feels like a new beginning for me. It is like a second New Year's Day. As I see it, it builds discipline, mental and physical strength, faith, gratitude and appreciation for the simple things in life, like water. Once it comes to an end, one feels proud for himself and stronger than the last time. Any intentions, wishes, goals and dreams are clearer and willpower is more solid and robust than before. I wish that to all of us, and mostly to the ones that feel lost either in their hearts or minds.
Dedicated to someone special in my heart
Now it is up to you! What is spirituality for you? How does it look like? What religions or spiritual thoughts intrigue you?


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Image Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Henry Cavill, 27, best known for playing Charles Brandon on Showtime's The Tudors, has been cast as Clark Kent/Superman in the new Superman movie to be directed by Zack Snyder, Warner Bros. announced today. "In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered character of all time, and I am honored to be a part of his return to the big screen," Snyder says in the release. "I also join Warner Bros., Legendary and the producers in saying how excited we are about the casting of Henry. He is the perfect choice to don the cape and S shield." The film is expected to hit theaters in December 2012. David S. Goyer is writing the script, based on a story by Goyer and Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight and Inception, who is among the movie's producers.
Cavill was at the top of EW's list of contenders last October. The British actor had been in the running for 2006's Superman Returns, which ultimately starred Brandon Routh.
Henry Cavill shares his five favorite filming locations with EW in 2008
Henry Cavill proves he'll look good in Clark Kent's suits
More on the road to Superman's casting:
The new Superman to be 28 to 32, maybe from TV, probably not Jon Hamm
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'Superman' director Zack Snyder on the Man of Steel: 'He's the king of superheroes.'
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The MD/MBA Degree
On this page, you'll find general information about the MD/MBA degree. If you'd like more application-specific information, take a look at our Application Guide section and our Forums.
From clinical medicine to consulting and finance, MD/MBAs recognize that through business they can magnify their impact and help thousands of patients at a time.
MD MBA Association
Who is it for?Anyone applying to Medical School, currently in Medical School, or an "MD" is free to pursue an MD/MBA. Due to the astonishing complexity and rapid evolution of the healthcare industry, the dual-degree can uniquely position individuals who are interested in either operating their clinics more effectively, running a healthcare firm, or fixing the US healthcare system realize their ambitions. These days, it is arguably one of the most versatile degrees within the Healthcare space.
Recent data has shown that of the 17,000 US Medical Students who graduate every year, approximately 200 (1%) graduate with a dual MD/MBA degree every year. Of these 200, generally half will go on to pursue residency training, while the other half enter the workforce directly, generally at the associate level position in finance or consulting (on par with their MBA-graduate peers).
What do MD/MBAs do?There are virtually unlimited possibilities within the Healthcare arena for those with the dual-degree. MD/MBAs run the gamut from practicing physicians who use their business knowledge to run their practices more efficiently or to research best practices in quality improvement and cost-effectiveness techniques, to those that manage large healthcare organizations such as Hospital, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device firms, to those who have left clinical medicine altogether and work in Healthcare Consulting, Investment Banking, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, or Private Equity. Additionally, for those who are interested the MD/MBA degree can be a unique path towards healthcare entrepreneurship.
For more tangible information on what MD/MBAs do, take a look at our MD/MBA Profiles page as well as our MD/MBA Student Profiles page.
When would I do the Dual-Degree?There are generally 3 paths to obtaining the dual-degree:
1) Historically, the vast majority of MD/MBAs were practicing physicians who went back to school to pursue an MBA in either 2-years as a full-time student, or through a longer part-time program. Recently, this "traditional" pathway has become relatively less popular in favor of the two following routes.
2) Apply to one of the 55 combined MD/MBA programs across the country. As a rule of thumb, these usually require 5 years to complete, although there are a handful of 4 and 6 years programs. Be sure to check the specific requirements and timelines of each program, as well as their relative rankings here.
Although there is significant variation between programs, most 5 year MD/MBA programs follow this general scheme: 3 years Medical School, 1 year Business School, and a 5th year of both Medical & Business School (typically 1 semester of each).
3) Take a 2-year leave of absence from Medical School to pursue a full-time MBA. These will require at least 6 years of education, and tuition, but confer the flexibility to pursue the business degree at a different institution.
Where can I pursue an MD/MBA?If you plan to pursue a combined MD/MBA program, check out our Programs & Rankings page for more information. If you are a physician or a medical student planning on taking a 2-year leave of absence to pursue the degree, you can consult our page for general information and links as well as the US News and World Report's Graduate Business School Rankings for more specific information.
Why would I want to do it?It's really up to you. If you're passionate about the Intersection between Medicine and Business and/or Policy, the MD/MBA degree may be a very good fit for you! We encourage you to research the degree through our Articles & Resources page, our Stay Informed page, and our Forums. Good luck!
How do I Apply?Although variable, applicants will generally have to take the GMATs, submit the required application, essays, resume, and letters of recommendation in addition to going through the typical MBA interview process separately for Business School. More importantly, applicants will have to craft a persuading narrative to prove to the MBA Admissions Committee that they have clear goals for how to use their dual-degree.
For a comprehensive guide to applying, take a look at our MD/MBA Application Guide page or Talk to a Current MD/MBA Student.
What are the Downsides?Our team of MD MBA Advisors would like to highlight 3 potential downsides to pursuing an MD/MBA degree:
1. Extra years of time, and tuition money, which may not be the most useful use of resources if you do not plan on using the business skills. If you have a strong passion for combining your interests in business and medicine, then the MD/MBA may be worth the extra year and tuition.
2. Diminished returns on the technical skills, recruiting, and networking that accompanies business school if you pursue a residency program, because by the time you are ready to enter the "business world" many of those skills and relationships may be forgotten. However, this can be fixed by proactively networking and maintaining business school relationships, and by applying business management skills during residency through a variety of experiences (i.e. serving on the hospital's finance committee, etc…)
3. Most importantly - skepticism from a minority of residency program directors about your true intentions. This can be ameliorated by applying to programs that are open to more business-oriented doctors, and by crafting a narrative that clearly explains how your interests will enhance your impact as a physician.
Despite these negative effects, we strongly encourage anyone who is interested in the intersection of healthcare and business to consider pursuing an MD/MBA.
FAQs:Excerpts from an interview with StudentDoc.com
What is the biggest appeal for physicians and medical students to pursue a business degree?
Physician's and medical students alike are drawn to pursuing a business degree because of the opportunities to innovate best-pratices, pioneer new solutions for age-old problems, and implement change in our healthcare system. From clinical medicine to consulting and finance, MD/MBAs recognize that through business they can magnify their impact and help thousands of patients at a time.
Do you believe there is a growing demand for health care professionals to have a deeper understanding of the business side of medicine?
Absolutely- the synergies between clinical experience and management knowledge is exactly what our healthcare system needs. Traditionally, physician's understand the diseases, treatments, and complexities involved in patient care, while business professionals appreciate the economic realities of competition and costs. Combining these two school's of thought allows the decisions made in the board room to seamlessly transition into the exam room. An MD/MBA once told me that she spent her day translating the medical jargon of doctors into the business vernacular of executives, which represents the cooperation and interdisciplinary focus that has the potential to significantly enhance the way healthcare works in this country.
Medical students already have tremendous demands placed on them as they pursue their medical degrees. Why should they consider adding another demanding component like an MBA to this?
There is no doubt that medical school is demanding, and an MBA is certainly not for everyone. But for those students whose passions lie at the intersection of clinical medicine and business, the MD/MBA can be a great tool for them to achieve their aspirations. Furthermore, the intangible benefits of immersing yourself into a completely unfamiliar environment, where group projects and case studies are the norm, helps mold students into better leaders, a skill that is applicable to any profession.
Do you see interest in MD-MBA programs increasing in recent years? Why do you think that is?
There is no doubt that MD/MBA programs have been gaining popularity: the number of programs has increased from half a dozen to 55 over the last decade. The rapid pace of health system reforms, application of business-like quality and efficiency practices in clinical settings, as well as the need for physician-leaders within the healthcare space motivates many of these students, who hope that the unique combination of skills they acquire will allow them to make an impact.
Further Reading:Popular! American Medical News: Health System Changes Inspire More Med Students to Pursue Dual Degrees
Popular! Financial Times: Healthy Balance on MD/MBA Programs
Fierce Healthcare: Who Needs an MBA? Top Hospitals are Run by Doctors
Popular! New York Times: Doctors Discover the Benefits of Business School
Popular! New York Times: Adjusting, More M.D.'s Add M.B.A.
New York Times: Are the Best Hospitals Run by M.D.'s or M.B.A.'s?
MD MBA Association
Professional network and resource for MD/MBA Candidates, Prospective MD/MBAs, & Med Students
Professional network and resource for MD/MBA Candidates, Prospective MD/MBAs, & Med Students


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An amendment to the continuing resolution for government funding has directed that the services, including the Coast Guard, should reinstate tuition assistance. I'm amazed at the way stuff happens in Congress, but if it gets results....
The Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard all suspended new enrollments for tuition assistance earlier this month. The Navy had not yet suspended tuition assistance, but was looking at other ways to handle the situation.
Officials have not yet announced a timeline for the resumption of tuition assistance, but they do expect that there will be changes to the program. Some suggested possibilities include reducing the number of credit hours covered per year, or decreasing the per hour cost paid.
I know that many people will be thrilled about that this...people were really mad when tuition assistance was suspended.


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Our look at newspaper comic strips continues with one of the best strips that's currently running. It's probably massively underrated, but it's great fun, and it'll charm the pants off of you. And then shed on them. (Archive.)
226. Mutts
As Graeme McMillan was saying the other day, "charming" has become a dirty word, and a backhanded compliment. Well, forget that-- I'm using it like Webster intended. Mutts is the most charming comic strip in the funnies. It's relentlessly charming, in fact, and has completely won me over. Family Circus wishes it had a tenth of the charm that Mutts does.
Created and cartooned by Patrick McDonnell, Mutts is the story of Earl and Mooch, who are a dog and a cat, respectively, and their world, including a variety of other animals as well as their owners. It shows the world and society from the animal's point of view. While the strip isn't roll-around-on-the-floor funny, it's cute and humorous and elicits chuckles. "Whimsical," you might call it.
McDonnell's cartooning style appears scratchy and simplistic, but it's endlessly emotive and fanciful. It reminds me of the seemingly effortless and wonderful cartooning of classic strips from the early part of the 20th century. McDonnell also plays with the format of the comic strip quite often, rearranging the layout to an aesthetic advantage that isn't found in most other strips. He also produces a lot of neat little homages to other art styles in the Sunday title panel. Some of these include references to Action Comics #1, Flash Comics #1, the Hulk, Hellboy, and Dick Tracy. You can find more of these tributes at this section of the Mutts website.
The Mutts world also includes a rich supporting cast, from owners like Ozzie, Frank, and Millie, to neighborhood kids, to Butchie the Butcher, to all sorts of members of the animal kingdom. There's the unfortunately ever-chained Guard Dog, the surly Sourpuss, Sid the fish, Shtinky, the cat who's also an animal rights activist, Woofie the wuv doggie, Noodles the alley cat, and more. My favorite supporting character has gotta be Crabby the cussin' crustacean, or maybe Bip and Bop, the squirrels who continuously bonk other characters on the heads with acorns.
McDonnell himself is a great proponent of animal rights, and uses the strip to promote pet adoption (though his "Shelter Stories" series of strips), and speaks through his characters to help endangered species, protect the environment, and warn against animal cruelty. The moral of the strip, basically, is to love your pets and your world. The animals are sweet, innocent, adorable, and lovable.
From the sweet cast to the silly running gags and the lovely, enthusiastic spirit of the strip, Mutts has got-- here's that word again-- a heartwarming charm. I love it.
Here, have more examples of its greatness (click on any images in today's post to enlarge them):
Mutts can be witty, silly, sad, and uplifting, sometimes all at once. It's maybe the best strip my home paper publishes. I love it.
Check out the Official Mutts website for all sorts of good content. It's packed with great stuff. More strips, some archives, a look into the artistic process, a biography on the cartoonist, forums, stuff for kids, and stuff to help our furry friends in need. Terrific website. Quite a few of the images in this post were borrowed from said website. All strips here are copyright Patrick McDonnell. (Don't sue me; I do this out of love. Cheers.) And for even more internet Mutts goodness, try this neat fansite.
Now go out, buy yourself a Mutts collection or twelve, and cuddle with your favorite pet or twelve. It's the right thing to do.


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There were six IMPACT Awards given for research projects that run from Feb. 16, 2016 to Feb. 15, 2017.
Delay of gratification, or the extent to which one can resist the temptation of an immediate reward and wait for a later reward, is a key component of early child development. Preschoolers' performance on the delay of gratification task, which involves resisting an attractive item, traditionally a marshmallow, for a set amount of time to obtain two marshmallows, predicts many positive outcomes from academic achievement to maintaining a healthy weight. Developing innovative ways to promote delay of gratification can equip children with an essential skill for success in modern environments.
The goal of the proposed project is to develop and test a board game designed to improve delay of gratification. Faculty with expertise in game design, child development, education, psychology, and obesity will develop and play-test prototypes of the game with 4-to-5-year-old children, refine prototypes on an iterative basis, and then test effects of the game using an experimental design. It is hypothesized that children who played the game during four weekly sessions will wait longer during the delay of gratification task, versus a control group.
Project objectives are to develop an understandable, appealing, developmentally-appropriate game that improves young children's delay of gratification. Results will provide critical preliminary data for a federal grant proposal aiming to test longer-term effects of the game on delay of gratification and whether these effects extend to other aspects of health and well-being. This low-cost intervention has the potential for widespread payoff, including the potential to address disparities in children's achievement and health.
The human immune cell called the macrophage is responsible for engulfing and destroying microbes that can lead to infection in humans. HIV infection causes an immunodeficiency that leads to bacterial and fungal opportunistic infections. The fungal pathogen C. neoformans is especially deadly causing ~625,000 deaths per year. This fungus, which infects macrophages somehow travels from the initial site of infection in the lung to the brain causing fatal meningitis only in immunocompromised people. The mechanism by which this happens is not known.
Our hypothesis is that HIV infected macrophages will take up more fungal cells and these will act as a Trojan Horse shuttling the fungus to the brain. This hypothesis is based upon two findings. 1) Our preliminary data using cell culture prove that with HIV infection, the macrophages take up increasing amounts of fungal cells and this increase is reversed by antiretroviral drugs. 2) Researchers have observed in the newly developed humanized mouse model that there is an influx of macrophages to the brain as HIV levels rise. We propose herein to be the first to model the AIDS-associated opportunistic infection, cryptococcosis, in the humanized mouse model to study the mechanism of fungal cell dissemination to the brain and to utilize this model to develop and test potential combination therapies in our future work that will have impact in global health.
Methylglyoxal (MGO) is a highly reactive glycating agent involved with formation of advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) shown to be associated with etiologies of diabetes and atherosclerosis. Evidence from in vitro and in vivo experiments shows MGO is secreted by a known and highly virulent periodontal infectious agent, Tannerella forsythensis ("Tannerella").
We recently demonstrated that the relative abundance of Tannerella, measured using next generation sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, is considerably higher in patients with periodontal disease and diagnosed diabetes as compared to healthy controls. Likewise, we've shown that Tannerella was one of the most prevalent periodontal pathogens identified in human atherosclerotic plaques harvested during carotid endarctectomy.
These observations make plausible the hypothesis that Tannerella infection could influence diabetes and atherosclerosis as a pro-glycation factor via its secretion of MGO using periodontal disease as a model. To our knowledge, this hypothesis has not systematically been evaluated.
Expanding on our previous work, the objective of this proposed study is (a) to validate bioanalytical methods for the measurement of MGO adducts to specific human serum proteins and (b) to characterize the potential functional link with diabetes that Tannerella, and potentially other yet to be identified periodontal bacteria, have in secreting MGO using community dynamics ("shotgun") analysis of the microbial DNA. Delineating the disease-related oral microbiome dynamics at both organism and functional levels would identify molecular events that drive disease progression which could provide a wealth of insights into disease development and lay a critical foundation for developing improved diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutics.
Polymeric ultrafiltration (UF) membrane is an attractive technology to recover and reuse the wastewater, due to high energy efficiency, small footprint and low cost. However, the membrane performance suffers from a trade-off between high permeability and high selectivity (due to the broad pore size distributions) and surface fouling by the contaminants in the wastewater. Block copolymer self-assembly is an effective route to design isoporous membranes with high porosity and narrow pore size distributions offering much sharper molecular weight cutoffs or higher selectivity than commercial phase inversion membranes. However, the conventional block copolymer self-assembly suffers from pore size and pore orientation limitations, prohibiting the population of this approach for water purification.
The main objective of this project is to develop a new strategy for the fabrication of robust, chemically tunable ultrafiltration membranes based on ultrahigh molecular weight block copolymers. A low cost chemical transformation method will be used to reliably generate membranes with unprecedented 50-200 nm pore sizes and a network-like continuous pore structure. The inherent hydrophilic membrane coating that requires no additional surface modification steps is expected to improve membrane anti-fouling properties. The proposed strategy will result in UF membranes with a unique combination of expanded pore size range, improved permeability, selectivity, and anti-fouling properties that will unlock the potential of block copolymer based approaches. Our interdisciplinary team brings in expertise in polymer synthesis, self-assembly, and membrane preparation and applications to demonstrate the technology feasibility, which will be leveraged to attract a large scale funding from DoE, NSF, ONR, EPA or industries.
Abstract: Over the last two decades, the diagnosis of diabetes has increased worldwide at an unprecedented pace and has become a serious health concern. It is a major cause of mortality in the age group of 20–79 years, and diabetes complications may lead to neuropathy, retinopathy, and nephropathy. Because diabetes cannot be cured, frequent monitoring of glucose in order to guide therapy and optimize glucose control is the only way to avoid diabetic complications. Currently, all of the commercially successfully blood glucose meters are invasive. Most patients, particularly those treated with insulin, are advised to check their blood sugars 4-6x daily. This is burdensome and creates issues with adherence to diabetes care plans. In this project, we aim to develop a prototype noninvasive glucose meter (NGM) based on the fusion of near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) and high frequency ultrasound (HFU).
Our project is built upon recent advances in the field that (1) the combination of multiple noninvasive sensing techniques would significantly improve the measurement accuracy, (2) NIRS, PAS, and HFU have all been demonstrated individually for promising glucose monitoring, and (3) PAS links optical and acoustic tissue properties through the photoacoustic effort, allowing for a more comprehensive data fusion approach for all three modalities. In this project, we will combine our expertise in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and clinical diabetes research to develop the proposed device and to acquire sufficient preclinical data for future clinical trials.
Obesity is a widespread public health concern. Obese children are at increased risk of becoming obese adults, with the risk beginning in infancy. Food reward is a major risk factor for obesity, with evidence that obese children, adolescents, and adults find food more reinforcing than their lean counterparts, and with recent findings from our team suggesting that these relationships already exist at 9-18 months of age.1-10 It is unknown whether the origins of excess motivation to eat are present even earlier as currently, there are no technologies to measure food reward in younger infants.
Young infants cannot make purposeful, coordinated, motoric responses that can be used to quantify food reward. However, young infants innately engage in nutritive sucking for survival purposes. This innate ability offers the opportunity to measure food reward in young infants by quantifying their sucking and integrating the measurement of sucking with delivery of milk based on their pattern of sucking.
The purpose of the proposal is to develop the technology to measure food reinforcement in 3-6 month-old infants, test the reliability and validity of the measure, and test whether excess infant weight is associated with a greater motivation to eat, as indicated by infants' willingness to continue sucking even when they are required to suck more in order to obtain milk. Measuring food reward in early infancy will open up new areas of investigation for researchers interested in the origins and prevention of obesity.
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We have set some audacious goals this year and need you all to help us get the message out about returning the church to the priesthood of all believers. We are getting many views every day of the site. If you wish to help us in anyway do look at our page how can you help us.
It's the beginning of another year and pastors have either decided that setting goals is unbiblical, a waste of time, or they already have a list for the coming year. Debates aside, whether your church sets goals or not, you might want to rethink the way you operate after reading this list of common goal setting mistakes.
1. Independent goal setting rather than involving others
People are always more committed to something when they are involved in the planning process. However, when it comes to making future plans for their church, many pastors feel it is their personal responsibility, and they choose to exclude others from the process. If I told you to lose 20kg next year, you would protest, make excuses, and explain why it was too hard or unrealistic. However, if you initiated the goal and I offered to support you, your level of excitement would be noticeably higher.
Right now, many pastors are reading this with the usual objections. I will address the objections in more detail during a future blog, but now that I have your attention, let's fast forward with suggestions, for those who might choose to involve others.
Where do you start?
I suggest that you meet with a cross-section of members from your congregation and also people in your community. How many city majors have ever been asked "How can our church bless this city?" You should consider talking with business owners, parents, singles, youth, children's ministers, and any other significant groups in your church or city. You could meet with people one to one, or in small groups. Potentially, all members can be given the opportunity to share their ideas through surveys, or by talking with group leaders. You might also discover that if you combine a planning session with prayer, and use an outside facilitator, that a greater flow of ideas can happen within a larger group setting. How does your church involve others in yearly planning? Share your experiences with us.
2. A focus on numerical growth rather than church health
When leaders set goals, they will often look through last years attendance figures, and then increase the numbers to represent a step of faith. If last years average Sunday attendance was 100, they might believe for 120 this year. If there were three baptisms last year, they might believe for four baptisms this year. If there were four home fellowship groups last year, they might aim for five this coming year. While there is nothing wrong with numerical growth, a better approach is to focus on improving the health of the church, because healthy churches are always growing churches.
There are many elements that contribute toward a healthy growing church. I would recommend downloading the Church Excellence Framework which is FREE, and outlines biblical principles that contribute to a church's health. An example of a goal that focuses on the health of a church could be: "By April this year, we will improve the quality of the discipleship process, by teaching people how to share their faith". How the teaching takes place is another discussion, but I suggest that is a far more effective goal than just announcing your desire to see twice as many people in church.
3. Not addressing the most urgent need
If you own an indoor plant, you could set a goal to water it everyday, place it in an expensive pot, and fertilize it once a month, but if the most important need was more sunlight, the plant would still die. Churches are very much the same. Every church has things they do well, and things they do poorly. A church might have 50 different goals, but if they don't address the biggest need, they will still fail to grow. One of the reasons pastors dislike 'church growth' material, is that it often exposes their weaknesses, and no one enjoys their "apparent" failures being exposed. Completing a questionnaire and discovering a list of 100 changes you need to make, can be very confronting, and it's much easier to toss the results in the bin, and create an excuse to stay the same.
The most liberating advice I can offer, is to focus on one thing at a time. If you look around your back yard, you will often see plants that are totally neglected but still living. What keeps them alive? They continue to survive because they have the minimum requirements to support life. If you give any plant water, soil, and sunlight, usually it will grow to some extent. However, if you were to take a soil sample, and add the minerals that the soil was lacking, you would see an explosion of growth. Your church is no different. If you continue addressing the weakest areas over a long enough period of time, you will experience growth. (Jn 15:2; 1 Cor 3:6; Act 6:1-5)
4. Setting comfortable goals rather than confronting the root issues
The Church Excellence Framework can help you identify the most urgent needs, but it still requires brutal honestly. Sometimes the most urgent needs get swept under the carpet because it is too uncomfortable to deal with them. The most uncomfortable areas to address, always involve people. Negative communication between staff, the way leaders communicate, and the way things are organised, are all very common issues in any group. In a previous role, I worked with businesses that often had great facilities, the best equipment, good staff, but very poor communication processes. As a result, the businesses failed to be as productive as they could have been. Bad communication was costing them thousands of dollars a year in lost productivity, but instead of addressing the problem, the senior management often made excuses, defending their own behaviour, and chosing to blame other things.
Addressing the uncomfortable areas is very confronting. Churches are often much more willing to focus their energy and budget toward updating equipment, redecorating the mothers' room, or other cosmetic changes, instead of addressing problems that involve people. Maybe it's time to get honest with how things are, invest time into growing as a leader, work on communication problems, and restructure the way you organise things in your church.
5. Neglecting organisational goals in preference to spiritually related goals
Some churches focus more on goals with a direct "spiritual" focus such as weekly prayer meetings, weekly days of fasting, and monthly worship nights. Other churches tend to focus on organisational goals such as building and equipment upgrades, leadership training and discipleship courses. Fasting, discipleship courses, buildings and prayer are all good. The point is to assess whether your church needs a greater balance between organisational and spiritual activities. Jesus withdrew and spent time on the mountain in prayer, but he also sent out the seventy in groups of two. Somewhere in the process, there were 35 groups that were organised and sent to various locations across the countryside. Jesus understood that both organisation and spiritual dynamics are needed to grow the kingdom of God. (Luke 5:16; 6:12; 10:1)
Can anyone relate to the five mistakes I have listed? Is there one particular mistake that your church is currently making? Share your experiences with us.
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Peter Sewell has over 25 years of ministry experience, training church leadership teams, business and government leaders, and community groups. He is a passionate supporter of the local church and served as an associate pastor for 15 years. During this time he was involved in planting new churches, and coordinating cell groups, pastoral care, and discipleship. He has qualifications in biblical studies, business, counselling, coaching, and adult education, and is currently involved in training future leaders across Europe.
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Christopher O'Neill, 38, met Princess Madeleine while the pair were both living in New York and their engagement was announced on the Swedish royal family's website.
"Chris proposed to me in New York at the start of October, and we are very happy," Princess Madeleine said in a video recorded at Drottningholm Palace outside Stockholm and posted online.
The 30-year-old princess is the youngest of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia's three children and is fourth in line to the throne.
"Madeleine and I have known each other for two years and I recently summoned up the courage to ask her to marry me. Thankfully she said yes," Mr O'Neill said in English. He added a few words in Swedish, saying he was trying to learn the language "but it is difficult."
Mr O'Neill, who is a partner at Noster Capital hedge fund and a Chelsea football club fan, was born in London and holds dual American and British citizenship, according to a CV released by the royal palace.
He studied at a boarding school in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from Boston University and a master's degree from Columbia Business School in New York.
Mr O'Neill's mother, Eva Maria O'Neill, is an organiser of the Amadeus Festival in Salzburg and is said to be a former girlfriend of Prince Charles.
Princess Madeleine lives in New York where she works for the World Childhood Foundation, a non-governmental organisation founded by her mother.
In 2010, she broke off an earlier engagement after media reports alleged that her then-fiancé had cheated on her with a Norwegian handball player.
Princess Madeleine said the wedding would take place in Sweden next summer, and that more details would be released later.


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A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
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What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?
In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her.
Inheritance is a book about secrets--secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in--a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.
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Dreams really do come true, thanks to Adele.
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Emily has been diagnosed with ADHD and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type three, according to the Manchester Evening News, which seem not to have affected the quality of this aspiring singer's pipes.
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