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Prezi - Online Presentation Tools
Prezi, is a very powerful presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make you a great presenter.
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Viosk - Easy Online Video Maker
Viosk lets you make online videos from a set of pre-defined templates.5 1
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PowToon - Create Animated Videos for Work or Play
Create videos and presentations with Powtoon. You can use existing templates to create videos fast.
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Hemingway Editor
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Camtasia : Video Editor for Windows and Mac
Camtasia's video editor lets you record your screen, create explainer videos and tutorials and import other videos to enhance your presentation.
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SurveyMonkey: Free Online Surveys
SurveyMonkey is an online survey development cloud-based software as a service company. Collect feedback from your customers, prospects and employees.
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Animatron - video and animation authoring
Make engaging and compelling animations online for your business or school. Create explainer videos, animated marketing videos, training videos and presentations. Make HTML5 banners and interactive video content. Use Animatron to increase ROI on your video and presentation.5 1
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LSIGraph: LSI Keyword Generator
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Video Brewery - They help you make explainer videos
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Shakr - Video authoring for e-commerce
A video authoring tool focused on the e-commerce market. They are a south korean company
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MSGHero - Turn Comments into Customers Automatically
This product will send a comment to anyone who leaves a comment on your Facebook post. Facebook doesn't like posts that link to items outside of facebook, so this tool can be very effective in driving inbound traffic from facebook.
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Canva - Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software
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Social Quant - Get More Twitter Followers Targeted to Your Business
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Veeroll - Get Traffic from YouTube and Facebook Video Ads
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This program turns your blog content into video content. Lets you easily create a story board and then add images and music to turn it into compelling content.
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RiteTag: Find the best hashtags
Great tool for researching hastags. Type in your hastag and find out how many shares and views its gotten. Will also show you the top influencers for that tag.
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eClincher. Intelligent social media marketing, engagement, & customer support.
Success in digital marketing comes with automation. This tool offers many of the most essential tools you need for message management and post publishing automation. They offer multiple plans for small companies as well as agencies.
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Freemake: FREE Video Converter
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Hitshop: Done-For-You Growth Marketing
A growth marketing agency. You can outsource your content, email, social media and paid advertising. They use automation and proven methods to help you grow. Starts at $499/month
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Blog Ideas Generator
You give 3 nouns and the tool gives you multiple blog title ideas. Great tool.
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Boost Linguistics - Optimize your writing
Boost Editor is a great companion for your blogging efforts to maximize your reach. It analyzes your post for key emotions and with the help of its AI engine offers suggestions to improve your post. You pay for what you use.
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Keyword Hero - Match keyword to session in google analytics
Google analytics does not do a good job revealing your organic keywords. You get (not provided) instead of a list of keywords people search for when they find you. Keyword hero is a solution that solves this problem.
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Snoopreport: Track user actions on Instagram.
Snooper report tracks of what users do on Instagram. Know what users like, comment and whom they follow on Instagram. Essential tool for analyzing users, monitoring influencers.
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Siftery - Share products you use at work, explore what others are using
This site recommends products to businesses. Vendors can submit their products, and businesses register to get recommendations. Great place to promote your product.
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Ship by Product Hunt
Product Hunt is now offering a subscription service to promote your products, get access to your subscribers, build landing pages.
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Recite - Turn quotes into eye catching images
You want to stand out, enter your quotes, choose a background and recite will convert it to an eye catching image you can now share in your blog or on social media5 1
Alexa: Keyword Research, Competitive Analysis, & Website Ranking
Alexa is a premier market intelligence tool. They are owned by amazon, so if you are into e-commerce then this is one of the tools you want to use.
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Pagescan: Scan your Facebook Page performance
Analyze your facebook page. This tool lets you know the strengths and deficiencies of your facebook page and makes recommendations on how to improve it.5 1
SnapApp Interactive Content Marketing Platform
An all-in-one tool for your interactive content creation needs. With this tool you can create assessments, interactive videos, calculators, interactive infographics, quizzes, contests, and more.
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Social Image Resizer Tool
This is a great tool for quickly re-sizing or cropping your images. It offers a stored library of social media channel image sizes (facebook, twitter, instagram, etc) and lets you optimize your image for sharing on your posts or social media.
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Unity Influence - use influencers to promote your brand
This is a micro influencer platform that matches you to the influencers that can promote your brand
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NUVI - Real-Time Social Intelligence
This tool enables to monitor social media conversations by keyword, topic in a visual interface. This will allow your team to engage and target the right conversations to grow your brand.
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AKM Zahidul "Zahid" Islam
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AKM Zahidul "Zahid" Islam, Ph.D., LEED Green Associate joined the faculty of the College of Visual Arts & Design at the University of North Texas in Fall 2016. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. Arch.S degrees from the Department of Architectural Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He graduated with his B.Arch from the Department of Architecture at Khulna University, Bangladesh. Before joining UNT, he worked as an Independent Graduate Instructor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and as Assistant Professor at the Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
Dr. Zahid's teaching and research interests are in the Sustainable—Evidence-Based—Informed digital design process, design visualization, communication and perception through Building Information Modeling, Performance Analysis, Virtual and Augmented Reality and various computational technologies that offer multifaceted research opportunities in built environment and design pedagogy.

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Manaar provides scientific, technology backed effective recruitment solutions to colleges in Tier I, Tier II and Tier III cities in North India helping college graduates secure an entry level general management role with corporate sector. Manaar group, visited DBS campus on 3rd Nov,2014.
37 students participated in the placement process and one student received offer letter.
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'Early on we didn't want to spend money on fancy desks, so we just built our own. We still use them.'
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'All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them' – Galileo Galilei
I love symbolism. Nature can provide us with so many lessons just by watching and keeping an open mind. The moth in this Ace of Swords card is no different. A moth is guided by the Moon's light. The Moon represents a high level of connection with intuition. The moth, then, functions in this physical world by following the direction of a higher intuition. The moth can be a lesson for you this week in understanding and accepting that to help you follow your path, you need to maintain a trust and faith in your sense of Spirit and what is truth for you.
The moth, however, does get confused when there is a bright light that overshadows the Moon's light and can lead to the moth's demise. The intellect in the Sword teaches us that we need to keep our thinking clear when we may be faced with confusion and distraction. By balancing your spiritual awareness with clear intellect can you begin to seek the truth that you need to know.


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An MBA getting started in the SAP market
I have an MBA and seven years of experience in quality management. I excel in MM configuration, but have no SAP experience. How should I step into the SAP market?
Also you need to be in a position to (post training) get a job that makes use of these skills. If you manage to get a change in your current position to have some responsibility in SAP MM configuration, either in your company if it has SAP or in another company, then it would be a good fit.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. – After her car was damaged in a car accident, Cassy McWade had to figure out a way to get it home.
She eventually called Ken Shupe of Shupee Max Towing.
Shupe arrived at the scene about an hour later, but McWade's ordeal didn't end there.
"He goes around back and comes back and says, 'I can't tow you.' My first instinct was there must be something wrong with the car," McWade told WLOS. "And he says, 'No, you're a Bernie supporter.' And I was like, 'Wait, really?' And he says, 'Yes, ma'am,' and just walks away."
McWade has a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker on her rear fender, but never thought her support for the presidential hopeful would cause her to be left on the side of the road.
Shupe told WLOS that he supports Republican candidate Donald Trump and he believes God had something to do with his decision that day.
"Something came over me, I think the Lord came to me, and he just said, 'Get in the truck and leave," Shupe said. "And when I got in my truck, you know, I was so proud because I felt like I finally drew a line in the sand and stood up for what I believed."
Shupe told FOX Carolina that he couldn't tow McWade's car because she was "obviously a socialist" and advised her to "call the government" for a tow.
McWade, who is legally disabled and suffers from many health issues, said she had to wait more than an hour and a half to be towed by another company.
Shupe says he did not see McWade's disability placard, but still would not have towed her car.
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The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo Association be presenting an All Around Award to the cowboy or cowgirl with the highest accumulated earnings in 2 or more events. The All Around Winner must compete in one event 9 times or more and in a second event at least 4 times during the season and win money in each event and be the top money winner of all events at the end. If the event is a buckle event it counts as an individual event for the award. For example: Heading and heeling count as separate events as well as roping in the #8 and the #11. The recipient will receive a saddle and a buckle.
This award will be presented at the Finals Rodeo on August 22nd. Quinten Hayden, pictured above with saddle was your 2018 All Around Winner. Quinten is recuperating at home after a terrible car crash this past winter. Quinten and family visited the rodeo on June 27 and we were sure glad to see him. Quintens spunk and determination to fight on to full recovery is strong and we commend him for that. We wish Quinten a speedy and amazing recovery. We are pulling for you Quinten.
A big thank you to our All Around Cowboy Saddle Sponsor -- Basalt Firearms, 970 279 5128, Basalt, https://www.basalt-firearms.net/
The top five leaders will periodically be listed below: (Check back often.)
Final All Around Points
Contestants Current Total
Matt Nieslanik $3,564.46
Josh Warren $2,817.65
Bruce Turnbull $2,606.18
Jared Wood $2,581.73
Taylor van Zyl $2,253.65
The Top 3 Jr. All Around Standings
Josey Snidow $778.00
Justice Kouper $714.00
Bailey Griebel $713.00
For a full listing of those eligible and earnings acquired to current date, click on the pdf link below (available after the first rodeo).


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Democrat Jared Polis leads Republican Walker Stapleton in first fall poll for Colorado governor
Polis' lead is especially strong with the state's unaffiliated voters, women and those who make less than $75,000 a year
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis leads Republican state Treasurer Walker Stapleton by 7 percentage points in the state's gubernatorial contest, according to the first publicly released poll of likely voters since this summer's primary election.
Polis' lead is especially strong with Colorado's unaffiliated voters, women and those who make less than $75,000 a year, found the poll, which was jointly conducted by one Democratic-leaning firm and one Republican-leaning firm. Stapleton beats Polis with male voters and those who make more than $75,000 a year.
The live telephone survey of 600 likely voters was conducted by Keating Research and Magellan Strategies between Sept. 18 and 20. The results are weighted to reflect historic voter turnout during non-presidential election years. It was commissioned by Healthier Colorado, a nonpartisan health care advocacy organization.
While the poll gives Polis a clear edge, 47 percent to 40 percent, its margin of error is 4 percentage points. Coupled with the 11 percent of voters who said they were undecided, the survey shows the race for the governor's mansion is competitive.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
This book was the basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner, but the movie left out some of the main plot elements of the book.
The earth has been badly damaged by World War Terminus a Nuclear War. The radiation poisoning from the war has wiped out practically all animal life and most humans have migrated into space. Androids are built to assist man in space, but are not allowed on earth. These robots mimic human in every way but one, they lack empathy. The main character is Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids that return to earth.
The book probes the nature of what separates humans from these life like androids. When technology becomes self aware, does it then have a soul or is it the empathy, that makes us alive? This book asked these questions long before Data began his quest to become human on Star Trek.
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Graphic designer: Emil Ásgrímsson (Iceland)
Emil Ásgrímsson has been studying in London for three years at the renown Central St. Martins College of Art & Design. His work is an eclectic mix of collage illustration and moving image inspired by epic landscapes, geology (his father is a geologist) and science. Emil plays with both digital collage and the process of the physical handmade aspect of moving image.
Aviator by Emil Ásgrímsson
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Photographs belong to Emil Ásgrímsson
This upcoming artist won the River Island Illustration competition for these work. Last night he opened his first solo exhibition at The Book Club in London.
I´m already looking forward to keep an eye on this one in the future!
Artist: Emil Ásgrímsson
Place: The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, London


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Verizon Shoot
Today I took my first trip to Long Beach, CA to go the South Bay Studios to film the Verizon web industrial. Very cool shoot with a great crew and director, Dorian Coss. Should be posting a link to the video in the coming weeks.
Booked Longs Industrial
I booked a Long Drugs industrial training video for Monday, July 2nd in the morning. Should be easier than the other midnight shoot.
Finished Bell Boy Industrial
Wrapped up shooting an industrial introduction video for Mastercard Worldwide Group Head, Melody Miller. It was a lot of fun. We spent most of Monday morning shooting for the video in and around Union Square, San Francisco. I got to go to Tiffany's before it opened as well has hold over $3,000 in shoes from Saks Fifth Avenue. We concluded the shoot at the Mac store.
Today I appeared on stage, as the bell boy from the video to introduce Melody to the audience. Jen and Michael from Multiimage where great to work with on this project. I hope with their company in the future.


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Posted: Monday, December 13, 2010 at 06:47 AM UT | Updated: August 14, 2014
The Assyria Council of Europe (ACE) is an independent body with the aim of raising awareness in the EU of the plight of the Assyrian people living on their ancestral lands in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, an area known as historic Assyria.
The European Union, with its increasingly important role in the Middle East is in a good position to contribute to the maintenance of the native Assyrian communities in the Middle East.
The Assyria Council of Europe is the voice of the Assyrian Diaspora communities in the different EU countries.
The organization is supported by various Assyrian institutions and individuals in Europe and represents thus the general ambitions of the European Assyrians.
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Assyrians were the victims of Iraq's first genocide in between 7 and 16 August 1933. The ten-day killing campaign conducted by Iraqi troops, under direct government command,
resulted in the slaughter of around 3,000 innocent civilians in and around the town of Simel. It also led to the destruction of more than 60 settlements, the vast majority of which were never resettled. While the preamble of the Iraqi constitution mentions the persecution and massacre of every other ethnic and sectarian group in the country, this tragic episode of Iraqi history was left out of the new national narrative. Assyrians continued to suffer displacement from their villages in the northern governorates of Nineveh, Dohuk and Erbil throughout the period of conflict between Kurdish rebels and the central government between 1961 and 1988, losing scores of settlements. Amongst the 4,500 villages obliterated by the end of the Anfal campaign in 1988, for instance, more than 150 of them were Assyrian settlements containing more than 60 historical churches. Between 1991 and 2003, Assyrians were also among those in the country who were adversely affected by the government's policies of "Arabisation" and "Nationality Correction."
The Assyrians in Iraq currently number between 300,000 and 450,000. In 2003 their
population was estimated at 1-1.5 million, and they now constitute a third of Iraqi refugees in neighbouring countries. This has come about as a result of Assyrian churches, businesses and homes throughout Iraq becoming the target of coordinated attacks. Kidnappings, as well as verbal and written threats to convert to Islam, pay jizyah (an extortion tax imposed upon non-Muslims), leave the country or else suffer death, have also been commonplace. In February 2008, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Mar Paulus Faraj Rahho, was abducted and killed. Other priests and religious figures have also been murdered or kidnapped. In total, more than 413 Christians were killed between 10 April 2003 and 23 March 2012, and 46 churches were attacked or bombed, leaving 95 dead.
On 30 April 2014, Iraqi people went to polls to elect new members to the Council of Representatives and three Governorate Councils in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The joint UNPO-ACE Election Observation Mission (EOM) was deployed in the city of Dohuk, the capital of the Dohuk Governorate, located in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Iraq and carried out 30 different observations in polling stations across 18 different polling centers.
UNPO and ACE conducted a joint EOM in 2009 to the Nineveh Plain, focusing on the region's ethnic and religious components and their participation in the electoral process. The current EOM was a follow up to this previous collaboration, considering the critical observations that had been made and the alarming reports that were received from Assyrian communities over the past years.
This report provides an overview of the election observations, and lists both positive and critical observations to the Independent High Electoral Commission, the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Government of Iraq.
The rich and colourful diversity that used to signify Iraqi culture and its historical roots are severely threatened at the dawn of the 21st century. Iraq's road to stability is blocked by a flaring conflict between a resurgent Shi'ite majority and a humiliated Sunni minority as well as from the expansionist aspirations of an over-confident Kurdish administration in North Iraq. Given the huge exodus of minorities and continuing threats and violence in 2011, there is a genuine worry that Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) in Iraq may not survive the current conflict and that their unique culture and heritage will slowly disappear from Iraq.
Despite a general decrease of violence in 2011, Assyrians and other minorities are constantly experiencing targeted violence, threats and intimidation. They do not have their own militias to defend them and do not receive effective protection or justice. In addition, minorities are also subjected to a pattern of official discrimination, marginalisation and neglect, and suffer from the effects of corruption and a policy based on sectarian interests. Assyrians perceive that they do not belong to the current Iraq and that they are being excluded from civil society. Because of the continuing displacement processes, many Assyrians are not able to sustain themselves, lacking a regular source of income, opportunities and education, and neither the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) nor the central Iraqi government provides sufficient assistance. In addition to the lack of life opportunities, especially in the KRG region and in the Nineveh Plains, Assyrians and other minorities experienced a significant rise in hostile acts and riots inside the KRG boundaries in 2011 compared to 2010. Feeling desperation, Assyrians have become restless people moving from one place to the other, and often express the desire to emigrate.
The huge exodus that has taken place since 2003 marks the biggest threat to the survival of minorities in Iraq. More than half of the Assyrian community has left Iraq since 2003: From more than 1.5 million Assyrians, the Assyrians population is estimated at approximately 500,000 today. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), minorities make up more than 30 per cent of the 2 million Iraqi refugees seeking sanctuary in Jordan, Syria and across the world; the majority of these are Assyrian Christians. Moreover, they represent an enormously disproportionate number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of refugees who moved to neighbouring countries remain trapped in poverty and chronic uncertainty. Unable to return home or to resettle elsewhere, many face growing desperation with each passing year in exile.
In 2010, kidnappings, murder, church bombings, harassment and discrimination shaped the daily life of Assyrian Christians in Iraq. Seven years democracy have not brought stabilization to the precarious situation of this historically indigenous minority. Assyrians continue to live in fear and anxiety. Since 2004, the year 2010 has been the most dangerous year for Assyrian people in Iraq. Every month more than seven Assyrians were murdered. Every week at least one person died in a targeted attack. From January to December, 87 Assyrian Christians were killed in robberies, bomb attacks and kidnappings. More than 300 Assyrians have been injured.
Assyrians are being persecuted because they are neither Arabs or Kurds nor Muslims nor do they speak Arabic as a native language. They are strategically in an unfavourable position and completely defenceless and without protection since they have never had any tribal or militia ties. Assyrians are at particular risk because of their perceived ties to the West and to the multinational forces in Iraq.
Already 60 percent of more than 1.5 million Assyrians in Iraq have fled the country
until now. Questions arise such as should they continue to move European countries? Should we stand idly by while the homeland of one of the most ancient people in the world is being emptied out?
This human rights report gives you a view on the situation of Assyrians in Iraq in 2010.
This report is based on a six-week fact-finding mission in the northern Iraqi cities of Arbil, Kirkuk and Dohuk, the regions of Barwari-Bala, Sapna, Simel, Zakho and Nahla, and the towns or villages of Bakhdida (Qaraqosh), Tall-Kepe (Tell-Kayf), Tisqopa (Tell-Isquf), Batnaya, Beqopa (Baqofah), Alqosh, Ba'shiqa, Bahzani, Karimlish (Karemles), Baritleh (Bartillah), Sharafiyah, Bahindawaya, Ayn-Baqrah, Karanjok, Dashqotan, Pirozawah, Ayn-Sifne, Shaqlawa and Diyana.
The fact-finding mission was conducted between November and January 2010 to investigate abuses against Assyrians in the disputed territories of the Nineveh Plains and in the Iraq Kurdistan Region. For security reasons the Assyria Council of Europe did not visit the city of Mosul.
Before describing the conditions of Assyrians and members of other minority communities in northern Iraq, it may be helpful to remind the reader of the Iraqi central government and its responsibilities towards its minorities, as well as an outline of their legal rights, as stipulated by the relevant international, regional and national standards, including the country's new constitution. Much of this relies on information presented by Human Rights Watch in their November 2009 Report, and serves as a useful background.
The current events and political climate of the region are dangerous for the Assyrians and other communities because they are caught in a dilemma between two larger and more powerful ethnic rivals who have over half a century of animosity between them. Many members of these communities are mentally exhausted after years of oppression under the Arabs, and they also bear the emotional baggage of persecution, massacres and raids under the Turks and Kurds in Ottoman times. They now fear again being oppressed by the Kurds who under previous Iraqi governments also shared oppression, but now have returned as the oppressors. To strengthen their hold on Nineveh and to ease its inclusion into the IKR, Kurdish leaders are campaigning on two fronts. They offer incentives such as protection and financial support, whilst repressing them to keep them under control. The aim of this is to divide the Assyrians, who will not easily identify as Kurds, and get them to agree with the KRG's plan of expansion into the disputed territories by "referendum," as well as pushing Yazidis, Shabak and Kaka'i communities to identify as ethnic Kurds.
To really understand what Kurdish authorities have in store for the ethnic communities of the Nineveh Plains if they do annex the disputed territories, one must fully comprehend their current situation within the IKR since 1991 and more specifically after the 2003 regime-change when the ruling Kurdish parties, no-longer fearing retribution by Saddam, became more open with their nationalist and exclusivist rhetoric. Part of Assyria Council of Europe's fact-finding mission was to investigate the actualities of Assyrian life in the IKR, and especially how they are treated under the KRG. The plain fact of the matter is that the IKR is practically a military dictatorship dominated by the KDP in Dohuk and Arbil provinces (where Assyrians and Yazidis predominate), controlled by its peshmerga forces, and closely scrutinised by its Asayish intelligence units which have centres in every town and district centre and strike fear into the hearts of those who oppose them. As was the norm under Saddam, portraits of Mas'ud Barzani (or his late father Mullah Mustafa) eerily smile from the walls of every shop, restaurant, hotel and government office. It is definitely not unusual to see Kak Mas'ud's image paired up with that of Iraqi President and PUK leader Jalal Talabani, as well as large images of KDP "heroes" such as Idris Barzani (Mas'ud's brother and father of former KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan) in prominent places. This is a culture which is already slowly creeping into the Nineveh Plains with Yazidi villages in the Shaykhan district displaying large images of Mas'ud Barzani at their entrances. The KDP does not even attempt to hide the fact that it is a front for the nepotism of the Barzani dynasty and thus, in many respects, Kurdish rule is no different to Baath party rule under Saddam.
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This report focuses on the ethnic discrimination in the Iraqi police force in the Nineveh plain (NP), an area heavily populated by Iraq's vulnerable minorities such as the Assyrians, Yezidies and Shabaks. As the report shows the discrimination against the minorities is evident in the ethnic make up of the local police force. All numbers in the report have been collected through contacts with independent minority groups in Iraq.
Being the last area in Iraq where Iraqi minorities have a strong demographic presence, the Nineveh Plain plays an important role in many ways. A strong presence of the Assyrians, Yezidies, Shabaks, Turkmen and Kakais is essential to keeping Iraq a multi ethnic state. Especially non Muslim minorities such as the Assyrians and Yezidies play an important role in preserving Iraq as a multi religious society, having a moderating effect on Iraq with their presence and participation in society. Unfortunately Iraq minority numbers are decreasing rapidly as they flee the country due to them not feeling secure.
Security plays a crucial role for the future presence of the minorities in Iraq. As the continuous attacks against Assyrians show, the minorities are in urgent need of formal protection they can trust. This is what they urgently lack in today's Iraq.
Between 28th January – 2nd February 2009 three international election observers arrived in northern Iraq's Nineveh plain to observe the provincial elections on the 31st January. The team consisted of Mr. Andrew Swan and Ms. Margaret Murphy from the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and Mr. Afram Yakoub from the Assyria Council of Europe (ACE). The main report of the Observation Mission (OM) about the election process can be found at www.unpo.org and www.assyriacouncil.eu.
The ACE-UNPO Observation Mission was informed of electoral malpractice prior to arriving in Iraq. The most visible complaints were those of Mr. Ablahad Afram Sawa against the Ishtar slate and Mr. Amin Farhan Jajjos complaint against the Kurdish Nineveh brotherhood slate, both reported by Iraqi media. Whilst in Iraq, the Observation Mission continued to receive information about serious electoral law violations in the run up to the elections. The Observation Mission decided to invest one of its members, Mr. Afram Yakoub, to look into at least some of the many allegations made. The following is the result of what the OM managed to find out about violations during the pre-election period among the Assyrian minority in the town of Qaraqosh.
On January 31st, 2009, Iraqis cast their ballots for the third time since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The last provincial and parliamentary elections, held in 2005, were marred by violence that fuelled the onset of civil war.
In stark contrast, the lead-up to, and execution of, the 2009 provincial elections has been characterised by relative stability and great optimism on the part of Iraqi voters. Electoral candidates displayed new confidence, campaigning under their own names and distributing election posters bearing their photographs for the first time.
The joint UNPO-ACE Observation Mission (OM) was deployed in the Nineveh Plain region of Nineveh Province, north west of Baghdad. This region is the only area in Iraq where neither Sunnis, Shiites nor Kurds form the majority population. Instead the area is populated by Chaldo-Assyrians, Yezidis, Turkmen and Shabaks.
In 2005 the area suffered from widespread polling irregularities, so much so that an international observer presence was deemed necessary in 2009. Disconcertingly, the UNPO-ACE team learnt that they were the only international observation mission present in the entire, hotly contested, province.
This report outlines the findings and observations made by the OM over the course of five days spent in the Nineveh Plain area. It has been compiled using interviews, observations, and direct assessments of polling centre practice on the day of voting.
Despite the fact that the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) worldwide has far exceeded that of refugees, with the IDP figure in 2002 standing at between 20 to 25 million people, compared to that of 10.6 million refugees, paradoxically, a legal framework and a special institution exist for refugees whereas none exist for IDPs.2 In this context, Iraq too has seen its fair share of IDPs. As a result of Saddam Hussein's Arabization policies millions of Iraqis, particularly members of religious or ethnic minorities, over the years were forcibly displaced from their homes in furtherance of these policies. The recent Iraq war has been no exception in this regard and according to UNHCR figures approximately 2 million Iraqis are now outside the country with another 2.2 million internally displaced. This paper will concentrate on some of the problems faced by Assyrian IDPs within Iraq set against the backdrop of both Iraq's and the international community's legal obligations towards them. Naturally, this should in no way be construed as downplaying the problems faced by all Iraqi IDPs however.
The right to vote in elections represents one of the most fundamental political rights a citizen can exercise and has now become entrenched in many international legal instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, and many other regional legal instruments. The importance of this right is captured by the phrase 'one (wo)man, one vote, one value,' and in essence elections are the institutions by which the represented authorize their representatives to act for them.
The importance of this right cannot be overstated in new and fledgling democracies such as Iraq. After years of brutal oppression and persecution, the Iraqi people were finally given an opportunity in 2005 to participate in what were hoped to be fair and free elections for all Iraqis. Millions of Iraqis took advantage of their essential right to vote and went to the polls. Unfortunately, however, the enthusiasm which resulted from this new found freedom was not shared by hundreds of thousands of Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans or Syriacs) and a smaller number of other minorities such as Sabeans and Turkmen as reports emanating from Iraq, as corroborated by other international organisations, confirmed that voting irregularities and deficiencies on the day of voting denied them of their right to vote.
The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the issues faced by Assyrians and other minorities in the Iraqi elections of 2005 which prevented them from voting and to propose possible ways in which the European Union (EU) can act and help the Iraqi government and the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI)
so as to prevent the events of 2005 which left hundreds of thousands of eager Iraqi citizens disappointed and without any redress from occurring in the upcoming provincial elections in Iraq which are scheduled to take place in October 2008.
Human Rights Reports, Political Resolutions & Other Documentation
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in the spring of 2003 the situation of the Iraqi people in general and the Assyrian community in particular in Iraq has caused particular concern on an international scale. It is generally accepted that although the situation of the Iraqi people had been regrettably dire following the fall of Saddam's regime, the bombing of the al-Askari Mosque in Samarra in February 2006 marked a turning point in that 'this incident led to targeted killings of thousands of Iraqis from both communities (i.e. Sunni and Shi'a) as well as other groups on the basis of their religious identity resulting in massive displacement of populations.' This displacement crisis, according to Amnesty International, is now the fastest growing displacement crisis in the world with the number of displaced people now standing at 4.2 million.
The Assyrians, the indigenous inhabitants of Iraq and a predominantly Christian ethnic minority, have not been immune to such sectarian violence and have been particularly targeted in recent years as a result of their distinct ethnic and religious identity. The church bombings in 2004 are a case in point, but simply reflect just the tip of the iceberg.
Unfortunately, there still remains a large lacuna in the general public's awareness and knowledge of the plight of Iraq's Assyrian community and this is reflected by the paucity of media coverage on this issue in the western world together with a lack of initiative to resolve this issue within national and international political institutions. Although the recent resolutions emanating from the European Parliament and the Parliament of the United Kingdom, for which see chapter 2, are welcomed, it is clear that more must be done.
With this in mind, it has been felt necessary to compile a dossier containing various documents and information outlining the plight of Assyrians in Iraq with the hope that such a dossier can act as a reference tool for people to refer to when wanting to find out accurate information about this situation from reputable and reliable sources.
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This is monsoon season has seen one of the worst natural disasters the country has ever seen and the biggest brunt of it is being faced by the southern state of Kerala. The state started seeing unusually heavy rainfall in late July and it has only gotten worse in subsequent weeks. More than 370 people have reportedly lost their lives in the heavy flooding and related incidents in the past one month. The state's Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan described the flooding as "something that has never happened before in the history of Kerala." According to the latest official figures, more than 800,000 people have been lodged in over 4,000 relief camps across 14 districts.
While the pictures and videos of affected areas and people seen on mainstream media have been heart-breaking, what is reassuring is the amount of support being received from various agencies (within and outside the Government), corporates and even regular individuals from across the country. There has been a major push over the past several weeks urging people to do their bit for the relief and welfare of the flood-affected victims and their families.
More than 50 rescue teams have been deployed by the Indian Army and Navy to carry out search and rescue operations. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has also sent more than 10 teams to address the situation in various parts of the state. State and Central governments together have set aside hundreds of crores of rupees towards disaster relief. It is well known that a number of Kerala residents are either settled or working out of the Middle East and it is estimated that over 700 crores in donations will be received from the UAE alone.
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Antibody was affinity purified using an epitope specific to SKIV2L2 immobilized on solid support. The epitope recognized by A300-615A maps to a region between residues 650 and 700 of human SuperKiller Viralicidic Activity 2-Like 2 using the numbering given in entry NP_056175.2 (GeneID 23517). Immunoglobulin concentration was determined by extinction coefficient: absorbance at 280 nm of 1.4 equals 1.0 mg of IgG.
Detection of human SKIV2L2 by western blot of immunoprecipitates. Samples: Whole cell lysate (0.5 or 1.0 mg per IP reaction; 20% of IP loaded) from HeLa cells prepared using NETN lysis buffer. Antibodies: Affinity purified rabbit anti-SKIV2L2 antibody A300-615A (lot A300-615A-2) used for IP at 6 µg per reaction. For blotting immunoprecipitated SKIV2L2, rabbit anti-SKIV2L2 antibody A300-614A was used at 1 µg/ml. Detection: Chemiluminescence with an exposure time of 30 seconds.


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Two of the hottest names in UK house music Shadow Child and Ben Pearce have joined forces to create the incredible 'Nothing Ever Hurts' and the result is a whopper.
With two bass-driven house gods at the helm, we are in capable hands as 'Nothing Ever Hurts' fuses light, airy vocals to a foundation of deep, Balearic beats, making it an enormous anthem we imagine you'll be hearing a lot of this summer. Vocals are provided by newcomer Laurel, a Turn First artist and FKA twigs collaborator.
Shadow Child (AKA Simon Neale) first came to attention when he released his eponymous 2012 debut EP via Dirtybird. The EP's lead track, 'String Thing' quickly found its way onto his label-mates sets and was an instant hit with club-goers (no surprises there). Subsequent releases on labels such as Moda Black and his own Food Music imprint have helped to cement his position at vanguard of the forward-thinking house scene. Ben Pearce has also been one of the UK's busiest house acts since the massive success of his 2013 club smash "What I Might Do," which quickly crossed over from underground hit to reaching No. 7 in the UK charts.
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These 100% pure beeswax candles are dipped by hand by Russian Orthodox monks in New York. No scents or colors were added to maintain the purity and exquisite natural honey scent.
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Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) 2019 Jobs Recruitment. DSSSB has released official notification for the jobs openings of Primary/Nursery Teachers and Junior Engineer. Check the eligibility and notification prior to apply for the positions.
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text: Indepenence Change is in the Air: Welcome to Future In Sight February 28, 2017 | By David Morgan After 105 years of working to improve the lives of blind and visually impaired people in our state, today is a new day. The New Hampshire Association for the Blind will now be known as Future In Sight. We are so proud to announce our name change, and we believe that Future In Sight more accurately represents our clientele since 93 percent of our clients are visually impaired - not blind - and our geographic scope extends to states bordering New Hampshire. Our name aims to capture the optimism and hopefulness of new technologies, therapies, and programs that are always on the horizon to enhance the quality of life for our clients. Read Full Story > Does Technology Help People with Vision Loss? You Decide... June 22, 2017 | By Future In Sight Stephanie Hurd, Community Relations Coordinator at Future In Sight (formerly NH Association for the Blind) wrote this article for the Summer Issue of the New Hampshire RAP Sheet. This is a collaborative effort of the Disability Rights Center-NH, Institute on Disability, and NH Council on Developmental Disabilities. To download the issue in its entirety please click here. Read Full Story > Inmates Prepare for Life Outside of Prison May 24, 2017 | By Future In Sight The Associated Press recently reported on the educational training currently being provided to inmates at the State of NH women's prison. CONCORD, N.H. — Inside a prison workshop, several inmates tap away at what look like old typewriters. The devices are actually Perkins Braillers, which are used to write the code relied upon by many visually impaired people. In a first for New Hampshire's prison system, 14 female inmates are spending much of the year learning Braille, so they can convert restaurant menus, textbooks and novels into Braille. "To know I could actually do something good for somebody, that is good to know," said Molly Martel, who is in the fifth year of a 20- to 40-year sentence for stabbing a friend to death. Read Full Story > Strawbery Banke and Future In Sight Partner on Interpretive Initiative June 19, 2017 | By PORTSMOUTH, N.H.(June 15, 2017) — Strawbery Banke Museum and Future In Sight (formerly the NH Association for the Blind) are both among the six beneficiaries of the Roger R. & Theresa S. Thompson Foundation Fund. On June 15 the two partnered on starting to realize the Thompson Fund award of a $20,000 grant to Strawbery Banke for a new Botanical Sciences program to complement the Horticulture Center now, in development. After the Thompson Fund encouraged partnerships among and between all six beneficiaries, the Strawbery Banke- Future In Sight collaboration became first. Read Full Story > Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments July 18, 2017 | By Future In Sight Read Full Story > Visually Impaired N.H. Voters Get Training on Accessible Ballot System September 10, 2018 | By Future In Sight NHPR recently reported on the training provided by Future In Sight to N.H. Voters on the State's accessible voting system, One4All. CONCORD, N.H. — About 15 people in Concord learned how to use voting technology for the visually impaired at FutureInSight, a local non-profit. The system, called One4All, was first used in the 2016 state primary. Read Full Story >


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A sum of money that is awarded by the court as compensation for loss, injury or damage suffered.
Damnum fatale
An 'act of God' such as a flood or earthquake.
Debt provable in bankruptcy
Debt incurred and due for payment prior to the making of the bankruptcy order.
A ruling of a judge or a court on a question of law.
The decision of the court in a civil matter.
A legal document that has been signed and witnessed. This term is usually used for legal documents relating to property, such as a deed of assignment, a mortgage deed or a title deed.
Default judgment/judgment in default
A judgment that can be granted against a defendant who has failed to file an acknowledgement of service or a defence within the time allowed.
The statement of facts and legal arguments used by and relied upon by the defendant.
A person sued in a civil action or charged with a criminal offence. In some cases known as the respondent.
Demoted tenancy
A demoted tenancy is a form of local authority, private registered provider of social housing or housing action trust tenancy that reduces a tenant's security of tenure and rights for a period of time (12 to 18 months). Tenancies can be demoted by the court if the tenant has engaged or threatened to engage in antisocial behaviour, or used or threatened to use the property for an unlawful purpose. It is much easier for a landlord to regain possession of a property while a tenancy is demoted. Demoted tenancies were introduced by the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 and have been in force since 30 June 2004.
Dependent children
The Housing Act 1996 does not define dependent children. The Homelessness Code of Guidance states that dependent children do not have to be the children of the applicant, but could be related to the applicant or her/his partner or be adopted or foster children. The Code suggests that all children under the age of 16 should be treated as dependent, as well as those aged 16 to 18 who are either receiving or about to receive full-time education or training or who are otherwise unable to support themselves and who live at home.
Money requested by a landlord at the beginning of a tenancy as security against non-payment of rent, damage to property, or removal of furniture.
Detailed assessment
The procedure by which a costs officer decides the amount of costs incurred in a case.
Directions hearing
A preliminary hearing at which the court considers which case management directions to make for the future conduct of the case.
These are the costs spent by a solicitor in conducting a case, such as court fees or expert fees.
Discharge from bankruptcy
Point in time from when the restrictions the bankrupt person are removed and most of her/his debts provable in the bankruptcy are written off.
Legal process that allows the trustee to renounce her/his interest in property. The effect of a disclaimer is to bring to an end the rights, interests and liabilities of the bankrupt or the bankruptcy estate in the property disclaimed.
The revealing of information, generally documents (held by either the claimant or the defendant), that will become the evidence in the trial. Disclosure occurs prior to the commencement of the trial.
Discretionary housing payment
Extra money that can be applied for from the local authority if a housing benefit does not cover the whole of their rent.
Discretionary leave to remain
This is an immigration status which is given to a person who may have applied for asylum but has been granted neither asylum nor humanitarian protection or those who have not applied for asylum but who meet the discretionary leave criteria. The only circumstances in which a person can be granted discretionary leave are when there has been a breach of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights ('no-one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment'); people whose right to Article 8 would be violated ('the right to home, private and family life'); unaccompanied asylum seeker children who cannot be looked after in their own country; and people whose personal circumstances are so compelling that granting them leave is considered to be appropriate. The amount of time that people are granted discretionary leave depends, but will usually be three years initially.
A formal contract for the sale of property.
District judge
A judge appointed to serve in a county court with more limited jurisdiction to hear cases than circuit judges. Confusingly, district judges are also appointed to serve in District Registries of the High Court.
Domestic violence
Violence or abuse (including psychological abuse) perpetrated by the spouse or relative of the victim, or a person who lives with the victim.
The Department for Work and Pensions, formerly known as the DSS (Department of Social Security).


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Parasomnias are a group of sleep disorders that are characterized by the presence
of undesirable behavioral, experiential, or autonomic nervous system events
during sleep initiation, within sleep, or during arousals from any stage of
non-rapid eye movement (NREM) or rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. During
wakefulness and NREM sleep, the hypothalamus plays a central role in
thermoregulation. REM sleep has a very distinct thermoregulatory response that
is characterized by an inhibition of hypothalamic control over body temperature,
with resulting poikilothermia. The role of the thermoregulatory features of REM
sleep is currently unknown. Drawing conclusions from other parasomnias one can
assume that a disorder could exist in which the thermoregulatory features of
sleep are impaired. The existence of this condition may have eluded current
research because most of the research on thermoregulation has been completed
using animal models or healthy volunteers. If this disorder were to exist, it
could be associated with metabolic disorders, or with neurodegenerative
conditions, and perhaps it could be an early biomarker for
alpha-synucleinopathies in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. New and
evolving wearable technologies offer the promise of facilitating the monitoring
of core body temperature and the testing of this hypothesized thermoregulatory
autonomic disorder and its clinical correlates.
Keywords: Parasomnias; Sleep, REM; Sleep Wake Disorders; Body Temperature Regulation.
|Citation: Soca R. Thermo-parasomnia. Prediction of a possible sleep disorder or entity. 12(1):61. doi:10.5935/1984-0063.20190054
|Received: June 16 2018; Accepted: December 10 2018
Parasomnias are a group of sleep disorders that are characterized by the presence of undesirable behavioral, experiential, or autonomic nervous system events during sleep initiation, within sleep, or during arousals from any stage of NREM or REM sleep. Some parasomnias, such as somnambulism, were described centuries ago while other conditions, such as sexsomnia, have been described more recently (viz. beginning in 1986). For most parasomnias, it is possible to identify how elements from a given state of consciousness (NREM sleep, REM sleep, wakefulness) intrude into another state to result in a spectrum of dissociated states.
Sleepwalking, sleep talking, sleep related eating, and sexsomnia are all related to NREM sleep and in all of these entities we can see how elements that are characteristic of wakefulness coexist with NREM sleep. Recurrent sleep paralysis, another parasomnia, is characterized by persistence of muscle atonia, an element of REM sleep, during wakefulness.1
REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is the best-described and studied REM sleep parasomnia and it is characterized by disruptions of the muscular atonia that is typical of REM sleep.2 The specific role of REM atonia has been an ongoing mystery but the impact of its disruption is very evident in the form of dream-enacting behaviors with injuries, negative psychosocial impact, and legal consequences.3 Idiopathic RBD has special relevance because it has been identified as an early sign, or precursor, of alpha-synuclein neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies, and Multiple System Atrophy.3,4
While the primary function(s) of REM sleep remains unknown, some of its cardinal features are well studied. REM sleep is associated with a distinct thermoregulatory pattern. It is established that thermoregulation responses are inhibited during REM sleep. Parmeggiani and Rabini5 were the first to describe the suppression of shivering and panting during REM sleep. During wakefulness, the hypothalamus occupies a central position in the control of body temperature; REM sleep is characterized by an inhibition in hypothalamic control of body temperature.6,7 It has been proposed that REM sleep is a poikilothermic state, while wakefulness and NREM sleep are homeothermic.8
Looking at other parasomnias, one can come to the logical and theoretical conclusion that there could be a disease or entity that would be mainly characterized by a disruption in the thermoregulatory features of REM sleep, in other words a predominantly or exclusively autonomic nervous system parasomnia (analogous to pure autonomic epileptic seizures, a rare but well-documented phenomenon).
REM sleep with preserved thermoregulation
This would be a condition in which the usual thermoregulatory features of REM sleep are lost or at least impaired. Since REM sleep is characterized by a lack of hypothalamic control of central body temperature, this hypothetical condition would be characterized by periods of hypothalamic control over thermoregulation, i.e. a renormalization of thermoregulation in REM sleep. Since most parasomnias are characterized by "intermittent" intrusions into another state, one can extrapolate that this entity may manifest as a phasic or intermittent phenomenon during REM sleep.
There is limited research in field of thermoregulation during sleep. Most of the research regarding temperature control during REM sleep has been conducted using animal models or healthy individuals. Most studies on thermoregulation involve very small sample sizes. Knowledge about autonomic function and autonomic disorders tends to be limited in the clinical sleep medicine community. Collection and analysis of core body temperature during sleep is not routinely done during clinical polysomnograms.
It is difficult to predict the full clinical significance of an entity that has not been identified yet but we could draw some hypothesis based on the information that is available from other parasomnias and other neurological conditions.
If our hypothetical condition were to be identified, the interruptions in thermoregulation during REM would behave in a similar way as the interruptions in muscle atonia that are observed in RBD. Extrapolating from the relationship between REM sleep behavior disorder and neurodegenerative disorders, one can hypothesize that "REM sleep with preserved thermoregulation" could be associated with the same group of neurodegenerative diseases. Alpha-synucleinopathies are also associated with autonomic dysfunction but the research to date has not focused on temperature control during specific sleep stages.
Nevertheless, given the current intense interest in identifying early biomarkers for future alpha-synuclein neurodegeneration in middle aged and older patients with idiopathic (>80% of whom will eventually convert to overt neurodegeneration)9, monitoring the status of thermoregulation during REM sleep is a promising new area worthy of investigation, especially since new and evolving wearable technologies10 can facilitate the gathering of the data.
Zhong et al.11 have described an anomaly in thermoregulation in individuals with Parkinson's disease and RBD. In this study, patients with Parkinson's disease and RBD had decreased amplitude in core body temperature profiles when compared to healthy age-matched controls. Unfortunately, this study did not look at whether the anomaly in core body temperature was specifically related to REM sleep or not. It is very possible that "REM sleep with preserved thermoregulation" could be associated with RBD but it would have to present alone in some individuals in order to be considered a parasomnia by itself.
At this point, there is limited evidence to support the idea that having some thermoregulatory features during the "wrong" stage of sleep could have a clinical impact by itself but these features could represent early signs of other conditions, notably alpha-synuclein neurodegenerative disorders.
In order to prove our hypothesis, and identify this condition, one must study the thermoregulatory pattern of a large cohort of individuals. Studying a population with other disorders that are known to affect the autonomic nervous system could increase the chances of finding our proposed entity. Studying patients with advanced Parkinson's disease or Multiple Systems Atrophy could be particularly helpful since both conditions are associated with another REM sleep parasomnia (i.e. RBD) and with autonomic dysfunction.
There has been some theoretical and experimental progress but the main role of REM sleep is unclear and the potential of role of the poikilothermic state during REM sleep is even less clear. The sleep research community would have to identify the main role of REM sleep and its thermoregulatory functions before the full scope of this potential condition could be well understood.
The logistics of large studies involving body, temperature could be very challenging but this could be mitigated with the introduction of newer technologies. Wearable devices that measure body temperature and other autonomic markers are becoming very popular and could be easy to analyze.
It is well known that REM sleep and wakefulness exhibit distinctive thermoregulatory "signatures" and an entity or disorder could exist in which thermoregulatory characteristics of REM sleep are impaired. This entity has not been described to this day. While a more solid understanding of this potential condition could take decades, bringing attention to this area of sleep research remains at least interesting.
I would like to thank Dr. Carlos H. Schenck for his mentorship and valuable guidance during the preparation of this manuscript as well as Chris Larkin and Lalita Jyoti for their assistance proofreading the initial drafts.


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STRABSNET, International Centre for Distance Learning was incorporated to provide strategic business consulting services to public and private sector clients. The brand identity was developed to reflect the goals and commitments of the institution.
This chess piece element was developed from a chess piece, this is to symbolize strategy; this was used to portray the aim of Strabsnet which is to provide strategic business solution to its clients, be it an individual or an organization. It also seeks to portray the right strategy in offering world-class education. This element stands at the focal point since its meaning forms an integral part of the formulation of the company name.
The knight's chess piece was used because of its symbol, which is the horse. Therefore the horse was chosen to represent pace and advancement. This is to emphasize Strabsnet commitment to help its clients advance in their respective fields as well as help them keep up the pace in a rapid evolving business world. Providing an education that gives its students and clients a competitive edge in the world's market place.
The globe icon, denotes the available of its services to people all over the globe, and also to enforce its commitment to make a meaningful contribution to the world. It also signifies networking. Establishing the fact that Strabsnet provides the platform for all kids of networking that individuals and organizations need to contribute to their success.
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Everglades National Park is host to a large group of stranded Pilot whales, there are four reasons that there is little hope for the whales that remain. To date, at least 20 of the stranded whales have already died. In the case of four of them, rescuers had to euthanize them because of the amount of damage they had sustained. Time is running out for these massive mammals, and there are five good reasons that there is not much chance that they will make it.
The first reason is that these whales are a family. Pilot whales, by nature, form bonds that are deeper than many species. They form family units of 10-30 whales, and they remain loyal to each other for life. It is more than the normal family group that is kept together by the formation of mating pairs and their children. The pilot whales are one of the only species that go through menopause, with post-reproductive females remaining with the group for life and looking after the younger members of the family. These whales do not leave family members behind, which is exactly what the rescue efforts are trying to get them to do in order to save their lives. It is not clear what drove them into the Everglades National Park, but making them leave may prove too tall of an order.
The second reason that there is little hope for the whales is that the area these whales are stranded in is Everglades National Park. This area has absolutely no cell phone service, and is miles from any support infrastructure for rescue efforts. It is nearly impossible to coordinate efforts and share information. Spotters in helicopters and watercraft are providing information that is nearly useless by the time it reaches shore-based workers. These whales chose one of the worst places possible to strand themselves.
The third reason that this story might not have a happy ending is that nobody knows why it has happened. Specialist from all over have converged to try to figure out what has motivated these whales to get themselves into this dangerous situation. Without knowing what is behind the stranding, it is difficult to contrive an enticement that will supersede their desire to remain with family members who cannot be saved. Autopsies are being done to attempt to detect disease or any indication of what might have driven them to this desperate plight. Rescuers need to find a way to get the whales to safety, but unless the autopsies produce information quickly, there may not be enough time left.
The final reason that these whales may not be able to be saved is the fact that the more of them that die, the more danger they are in from predators like sharks. Already sharks are gathering and starting to attack some of the whales that have already died. The pilots will be even less likely than they have been to respond to attempts to direct them with predators in the waters nearby. They provide yet another influence on the whales that is counter-productive to rescue efforts. If more resources are not put to the task, and quickly, these four reasons demonstrate tragically why there is little hope for the whales stranded there in the Everglades National Park.
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Flash Fiction Friday: The Leader
by: John Wayne Comunale
Jonathan Switz was loved and renowned by his people as much if not more than he was loathed and reviled by them. Such is the plight of every leader, but Switz remained unaffected. He couldn't feel the love, hate, or indifference of his people because he lacked the capability. Something had turned that part of him off.
He thought he remembered what love and hate felt like, but couldn't be sure if he was only convincing himself the memory existed. Switz had no idea how long he'd been in The Isolation, but he knew he was a leader and not much past that.
The who and the where escaped him, and while he felt constantly on the cusp of remembering, he never did. Most days he received a message he was to make a speech or declaration of some kind. The message wasn't written or dictated but came in the form of a buzzing tingle at the base of his brain. A spotlight would appear. Jonathan would stand in it and begin to recite words as they scrolled through his mind like a psychic teleprompter.
Two holographic symbols appeared in front of him at least four or five times a day. The symbols, a red triangle and a yellow circle, represented a different difficult decision for Jonathan. To make this decision he simply had to reach out and touch one of the holograms. That was that. The shapes would disappear and return later with another decision for the great leader to make.
Switz never knew what the decisions were or how they affected his people. All he knew was the shapes would hover before him until he reached out and touched one.
Jonathan tried to glean some context as to what may be going on from the speeches he made, but they were mostly non-committal political rhetoric or vague, sweeping answers easily applicable to a myriad of problems. The words flew through his head so fast he didn't have time to comprehend what he rattled off.
He made the shapes wait once. He wanted to see if after a certain amount of time the options changed or more information was given, but no such luck. The red triangle and yellow circle simply hung in the air and followed Switz around glowing dully, silently pressuring him to make a choice until he did.
He wondered if the amount of time he waited before choosing had any bearing on the outcome or if everything stopped frozen in time until Jonathan Switz touched a glowing shape.
When the shapes appeared again, Switz decided he just wasn't going to touch them forever. Maybe if he waited long enough the outside world would be thrown off balance and free him from The Isolation, allow him to feel something again.
Jonathan vowed to himself if and when he ever got out he would step down as leader immediately. Even if through some twist of fate the blind choices he'd made created the perfect utopian existence and he was haled far and wide, he would still walk away.
Days and days went by, or what Switz was able to perceive as days, but the shapes remained present with no change.
Jonathan stared vacantly at the shapes floating silently in front of him and was struck with an idea. It seemed so simple, and he felt foolish for not thinking of it until just then. He would touch both of the shapes at the same time. It sounded easier than he knew it would be, but it was something he'd never tried before.
He stepped as close as he could to the shapes without touching and put his hands up in front of them. He did his best to put the same amount of space between each hand and its corresponding shape, but had to step back and try again several times before he could stop shaking.
Switz took several deep breaths, shook the trembling from his hands, and stepped back up to the shapes. He put his hands as close as he could to each shape without touching, and then quickly thrust them forward at the same time.
The triangle and the circle disappeared leaving the space noticeably dimmer with the absence of their dismal glow. Jonathan stood still; his hands out in front of him, and waited for something, for anything to happen. When it didn't he lowered his hands and clenched them into fists.
He didn't feel the tingle in his palms at first until the sensation intensified rapidly forcing him to recognize the burn. He unclenched, looked down at his palms, and saw his hands had turned the color of the shape they had touched. It was more than just color though, his hands had taken on the low-level luminescence of the shapes as well.
Jonathan turned his hands over a to see the strange phenomenon completely covered them, and a prickling sensation shot across his wrists as the glowing colors started to work their way down both arms. It moved slowly at first, like thickly applied paint dripping down the wall, but quickly gained momentum and was to his shoulder in a second.
Colored light exploded across his vision as if he'd looked directly into two suns. Light was all he could see for several seconds until it faded into an unsavory, inky, thick darkness. Jonathan shook with spasms as the foreign substance enveloped his body and plunged down his throat.
Through the darkness Switz saw bright spirals of light that reached out with an invisible force to pull him into them.
As he got closer, Switz began to feel something. It was hard for him to make sense of it at first because the ability to feel was a faculty he no longer possessed. His synapses latched onto the odd sensation and flung it back into his system, reactivating the long-atrophied sensors.
Something changed inside of Jonathan, and he was flooded with feelings to the point of being overwhelmed. He felt the pain of his people from all the decisions he'd made that hurt them, but he also felt the joy from when he'd done them right. Love overtook him so intensely, he was confused and unable to derive its origin, but he was comforted nonetheless.
The choking darkness of hate and envy fell upon Jonathan the heaviest and sank its fangs deep into his neck. Switz flailed against the foul emotion but found it impossible to break from the invisible force holding him in place.
Jonathan Switz had figured out a way to make himself feel again, but there was a side affect of his successful experiment. He felt everything at once. The intense love, hate, and all that comes in-between hit Switz in one single gigantic wave.
The intensity broke him and Jonathan's his frazzled brain shut down, but not before he remembered why he'd come into The Isolation. Not before he remembered none of this mattered.
The swirling orange and yellow light pulled Jonathan into it, and he was gone. A crack ran down the black, wet sky of The Isolation like long, lazy lightning. When it struck the ground, the sky crumbled and fell to reveal the same sky right behind it.
John Wayne Comunale lives in the land of purple drank known as Houston, Texas. He is a writer for the comedic collective MicroSatan; the author of The Porn Star Retirement Plan, Charge Land, Aunt Poster, and Scummer; and the writer/illustrator of the comic-zine: The Afterlife Adventures of johnwayneisdead. If that's not enough, he also tours with the punk rock disaster: johnwayneisdead. If you're in Williamsburg, Virginia tonight, you can see him reading live at Scares That Care. If you miss that, you can still listen to his podcasts here and here.
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A filthy barfly haunts the bar down the road. He lives off the leftover dregs of the patrons' beers and spent cigarettes he finds on the ground. He may be living in the trunk of someone's car. His name is Scummer. He's mysterious and elusive. He's unbound by inhibitions and you want to be just like him.
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BIZZONG! Featuring the 2017 Recipient of the Wonderland Book of the Year Award, Danger Slater. Danger talks about his moment at BizarroCon when he won the award and how it affected him. More important, we talk about his newest book, which comes out February 14th, 2018. He Digs A Hole is chock full of symbolism and analogies. And just went you think you've got this clever little narrative all figure out, BOOM, in steps the world's most explosive writer to lay down some fourth wall breaking commentary that somehow manages to weave its way into the plotline as well.
GET LIT WITH LEZA! Rios de la Luz is a queer xicana/chapina author of the short story collection, The Pulse Between Dimensions and The Desert and the novella, Itzá. She lives in El Paso with the love of her life and her beautiful dog. Rios and Leza talk about magic, dreams, Korean dramas, & dealing with trauma through art.
JOHN WAYNE LIED TO YOU! John Wayne Comunale says: I'm back fresh from Days of the Dead in Atlanta where I shared a table with two very delightful gentlemen: David W. Barbee and Mike Lombardo, and this week's story is about that very trip. What a time was had in which I learned many things, gained new perspective on art and life, and turned into a big softy when it came to kids and reading. I hope you enjoy listening to these adventures as much as we did having them. In sadder new, we really miss our Uncle Charles . . .
AND REVIEW ME PLEASE! Technically not a podcast, but this is a special two-parter! Michael and PJ have genuine celebrity guests, cocktails, and the unboxing of Fiona Apple! See Part 1 and Part 2 on their YouTube channel.
Flash Fiction Friday: Mama's Boy
by: John Wayne Comunale
"Maybe this isn't the best time to mention this," I said just before squeezing the trigger, "but I'm your brother."
I know he heard me too. I could see the weight of my flippant confession smack his flat forehead and reverberate recognition through his eyes in the brief moment just before the bullet ripped his head apart. The wound opened the back of his head wide and exploded out with the sweetest tasting strawberry jam. It was the same strawberry jam our mother made for us, although separately since neither of us could know the other existed.
For quite some time, mother was successful in keeping up this charade, and while she was always able to keep my brother in the dark, I had figured it out quite some time ago. The thought of having to share mother with someone, especially someone I couldn't see or interact with in any way, drove me insane with rage. I didn't realize how intense my wrath could be until after the first incident. The fact that I didn't even feel bad about it made me realize it wouldn't stop until he was dead. I had to kill this unknown being bound to me by blood along with anyone who got in the way.
Including her.
Including mother.
The first incident I had no memory of, but it was told back to me with vivid details via eyewitness accounts. Mother had just gone, and I knew she was going to him. She was going to feed him the strawberry jam. She was going to dote on him now. The last thing I remembered was a heightened feeling of anger that rose from my feet to quickly overtake me. That's when I stopped remembering. That's where I went blank.
Apparently I was inconsolable.
Apparently I swelled with strength.
Apparently I killed them all.
Mother came home and found us all like this, and she knew the jig was up. Like a boulder hanging by a thread, it was only a matter of time before I snapped and destroyed everything she'd worked so hard to build. She didn't try to reason with me because I was far beyond the point of reason. I didn't care about mother's work or the importance thereof. I just cared about finding this secret brother of mine and destroying him.
I cared so much about killing him that when I killed her, when I killed mother, I didn't even care. It wasn't about her anymore. It was about him.
Finding him wasn't hard since I was led by an unknown force desperately driving me to succeed. Hacking my way through those who surrounded him was just as easy and forgettable as the others. He was confused and cried out for mother with fear in his voice. I delighted in knowing his cries were in vain. He looked like a puny, extra-needy and helpless version of myself. He was despicable and I felt no remorse for what I did, and I still don't.
John Wayne Comunale lives in the land of purple drank known as Houston, Texas. He is a writer for the comedic collective MicroSatan and contributes creative non-fiction for the theatrical art group, BooTown. When he's not doing that, he tours with the punk rock disaster: johnwayneisdead. He is the author of The Porn Star Retirement Plan, Charge Land, and Aunt Poster as well as writer/illustrator of the comic-zine: The Afterlife Adventures of johnwayneisdead. You can listen to his podcasts here. John Wayne is an American actor who died in 1979.
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Podcastlandia: Listen Like You were There!
Today's installment of Podcastlandia presents another episode of JOHN WAYNE LIED TO YOU, where Old Man Comunale has a senior moment and accidentally deletes the episode. Not to worry, it was reposted and you can listen to a brand new story and John Wayne's recap of BizarroCon 2017.
And as a bonus, a new podcast has been created by Lucas Mangum and his lovely wife Jean! The Mangum Show will review shows and movies, plus guests, readings, interviews and more! Check it out here. You know you want to. Just look at them adorable faces.
And finally, horror writers Brian Keene, Lesley Conner, Mary SanGiovanni, Damien Angelica Walters, J.P. Sloan, and our very own weirdo Eric Hendrixson all appeared on the latest episode of Eating the Fantastic.
Take it From Dracula…
John Wayne Comunale and Grindhouse Press have released another specimen of literary evil, Death Pacts and Left-Hand Paths. But you don't have to take my word for it…


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Recorders For All
The Triple Play is an adaptation designed for soprano recorder which makes the instrument more accessible to people with limb differences. It adds keys to the bottom three holes of the instrument, making the full range of the recorder playable with just six fingers.
The cluster of three keys augments a Yamaha YRS-24B plastic recorder. Triple Play allows the user to press multiple keys with one finger, and to change easily between keys.


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Toowoomba Wedding Ceremonies & Venues
From chapels to private gardens, to the traditional backdrop of your favourite church, choosing your ceremony venue is a pretty personal decision. We've taken some of the hard work out of choosing the right ceremony location by gathering some of Toowoomba's loveliest wedding venues in one place. Take a look through our Toowoomba ceremony directory below.
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16 Women in Engineering to Learn More About
March is Women's History Month. Learn more about women engineers and inventors in science history and get inspired by these 16 scientists!
Women's History Month: 16 Engineers to learn more about!
As part of Women's History Month, we shared a selection of women scientists earlier this month. There are so many women who could and should be included in lists like this that we separated our list into two parts: scientists and engineers (in which we are including computer science and math). Our goal in sharing these short biographies of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is to continue to help students to see that science is for everyone—and that women have been inventing, innovating, and discovering all along.
We hope seeing lists like this will inspire students to learn more about these engineers and to explore related science projects, activities, and careers. For each engineer, we have included a very short biographical note, a link to a hands-on science project or activity related to the engineer's work, a link to a relevant science career profile, and a link to a biography to help students learn more about individual engineers. Educators can use this career worksheet to guide student exploration and reflection about STEM careers.
16 Women in Engineering, Math, and Computer Science
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