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Bunge Loders Croklaan supplies a wide variety of vegetable oils and fats, usually in blends with palm-based products, including coconut oil, sal, and illipe.
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Coconut trees are hardy plants that can grow in almost any soil, including sand. A single coconut tree bears fruit for more than 60 years, which earned it the nickname "three-generation tree," as it can support a farmer, his children, and his grandchildren. The coconut has been recognized for its medicinal benefits for more than 4,000 years and is an important source of fat for millions of people in the tropics.
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Enerplus Corp (Enerplus), formerly Enerplus Resources Fund is an oil and gas company that offers exploration and development services. The company provides exploration and development of natural resource properties for the production of crude oil, light and heavy oil, natural gas, shallow gas, shale, coal bed methane and others. Enerplus offers explorations on the portfolio of oil and natural gas assets in Canada and the US. The company holds interest in oil and natural gas properties in Canada and the US. Enerplus is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Enerplus Corp Key Recent Developments
May 10,2019: Enerplus Announces First Quarter 2019 Results
May 09,2019: Enerplus Announces Voting Results from 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Feb 22,2019: Enerplus announces fourth quarter and full year 2018 financial and operating results and 2018 year end reserves
Jan 25,2019: Enerplus announces fourth quarter update, 2019 budget and three-year outlook
Jan 07,2019: Enerplus appoints Karen Clarke-Whistler to its board of directors
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60 seconds with Keith Wade on political risk in 2017
60 seconds with Keith Wade on political risk in 2017
All the focus at the moment is on the US presidential election, and we have seen the opinion polls narrowing quite sharply over the last month. So, the probability of Hillary Clinton winning is now about 56%; a month ago, it was about 70%, so it has come in very, very sharply and the probability of Donald Trump winning has increased quite significantly.
That would be very important for investors, not least because he has some very aggressive fiscal plans, and he also has some very aggressive trade plans. On the fiscal side, he wants to cut taxes and he also wants to cut spending.
I would be less concerned about the fiscal plans because I think Congress will rein him back on that but he'll have a lot of freedom to do what he wants on the trade side, so we'll probably see tariffs going up on China and Mexico. In terms of the US economy, I think that'd be quite stagflationary and quite damaging for the economy so that's a bit of a negative for investors.
The other focus of political interest of course will be on Europe in the next few months. We'll have the Italian referendum coming up in December but going into 2017 we have three general elections to focus on in the Netherlands, France and Germany, so political risk is going to be with us right through 2017.
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"God can be realized through all paths.
All Religions are True.
The important thing is to Reach the Roof."
– Ramakrishna
My Beloved Audience,
We have gathered here today for a Moment of Beauty, Peace and Enlightenment which will last through Eternity on my Personal "Fashion" Blog, dedicated to the Land of the Rose Desert and Spiritual Light – which I personally feel the Greatest Respect and Infinite Gratitude for – the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – my Holy Land.
Endless Words of Wisdom and Thoughts of Appreciation will be displayed to depict the Act of Conscience Transformation which occurred during my 8 days visit, given the fact I chose not to use the Internet or any social media platforms at all, but insisted to stay grounded and fully connected to People and the Universe around me.
I now recommend it to anyone – put your phone down and just start living! As simple as that.
Given the High Interest I manifest in Religious Practices and Spirituality, I have started to bring my Thoughts to Life during the Ramadan month in order to create the divine opportunity for my thoughts to prosper and my 5D Vision to enlighten you with the True Story about my dear Kingdom which houses Petra – the Rose City – one of the New 7 Wonders of the World.
The Powerful Revelation happened during Easter – the most auspicious Time to Receive Divine Blessings, Ancestral Knowledge and Spiritual Gifts. I will start by mentioning I was Lucky enough to travel with my Parents – the Gatekeepers of the Universe – a group of experienced intellectuals and a skilled guide – all a pleasure to discuss, debate and entertain with. I am engaged into a continuous (life-time) process of personal growth – like all of us should – learning by doing and feeling, which leads to gaining a deeper Understanding of Life and the Universe, and, in spite of my various acts of solitude to energetically charge and cleanse, I appreciate how much I can learn from people if I talk or listen.
For your kind information, Jordan is an Arab Kingdom in Western Asia, situated on the East Bank of the Jordan River – bordered by Saudi Arabia to the east and south; Iraq to the north-east; Syria to the north; Israel, Palestine and the Dead Sea to the west; and the Red Sea in its extreme south-west, Land strategically located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa and Europe, in the Levant area of the Fertile Crescent, a cradle of civilization.
According to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Jordan is home to around 100,000 archaeological and tourist sites. Some very well preserved historical cities include the majestic Petra and Jerash, the former being Jordan's most popular tourist attraction and an Icon of the Kingdom. Jordan is part of the Holy Land and has several biblical attractions that attract pilgrimage activities. Biblical sites include: Al-Maghtas where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, Mount Nebo, Umm ar-Rasas, Madaba and Machaerus.
The thing that impressed me the most during the well deserved visit to Jordan was the way I was received by the Arabic people, who were always greeting tourists with large smiles on their faces; I was especially flattered by the ladies (of all ages) asking to take photos/selfies with me. I love taking pictures – this is how I express myself, remain aware of myself and Self-Confident – I should be doing this for the rest of my Life. I am a Pro and I mix it with Pleasure. That's the Secret to Success. I am also getting intensively accustomed with being in the Center of Attention, as long as it is Positive and Inspiring for others, that is.
Whenever I was asked the FAQ "Where are you from?", the fact that I come from Romania reinforced the positive impression I (knew I) had on people. I am pleasantly surprised of how well Arabic people acknowledge and accept the premises of diversity and inclusion. It is an act of Faith and Courage to embrace the cultural differences of your Brothers by the Father in a world which had praised the opposite until now, the Times of Spiritual Evolution we are living. Again, it is in everyone's Power to design Personal Reality – I am here to let you know which your options are. I choose Peace, Love and Understanding over anything else, considering the Flow of Abundance always manifesting into my Life. A cultural fact to be mentioned is the fact that many Jordanians have studied in Romania, choosing to form families with Romanian women, which is also a reason why Romanian people are respected and warmly welcomed in Jordan. Most of the People I have met even knew a few words or songs in Romanian, lol. This is how Well I was received in One of my favorite Countries I have ever visited.


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A former veteran Sturbridge selectman finds himself a key player in a casino proposal for nearby Palmer that many folks in his hometown of Sturbridge still want no part of.
Charles T. Blanchard, town manager in Palmer since January, is busy overseeing a determination of the good, the bad and the potential ugly of an effort by Mohegan Sun, operators of a casino in Uncasville, Conn., to locate a similar facility off Route 32, just north of Interchange 8 of the Massachusetts Turnpike.
The access plan calls for an additional lane off the turnpike, with a span over Route 32 to the proposed site.
Mr. Blanchard is also negotiating with Mohegan Sun for an agreement on a casino, which is subject to voter approval.
He expects that Palmer will schedule a binding referendum vote next year on the casino to be located on 152 acres owned by Northeast Realty of East Longmeadow that Mohegan Sun has a 99-year lease agreement on. All that is needed for passage is a majority approval vote.
"It's my job to negotiate the best possible host community agreement that I can for the town of Palmer," Mr. Blanchard said in a recent interview, "so that makes it pretty simple and straight forward."
The town has hired RKG Associates of Dover, N.H., to assist in handling the negotiations toward a host community agreement with Mohegan Sun.
Information on the negotiations to date is classified as confidential.
"I'm not for the casino. I'm not against the casino," Mr. Blanchard said. "My job is to do the best job in creating a host community agreement that really recognizes what the true benefits are and recognizes what the true impacts are and do the best we can to mitigate any of the downsides and let the people make up their mind."
There are several other proposed casinos for Massachusetts, including one in nearby Springfield, but Palmer has been at this for a much longer time following a nonbinding referendum in the mid-1990s that indicated residents favored a casino in town.
The state expects to license up to three casinos despite the downward economic trend now being experienced by the two casinos in Connecticut, Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods.
Mr. Blanchard said Palmer has been negotiating since late last year with Mohegan Sun.
"I think we're the only community that's this far along."
There is no rush to quickly complete negotiations, according to Mr. Blanchard, because the state Gaming Commission is still involved in the initial application process for casino developers.
He said final regulations for phase two of the licensing process will not be released until next summer, so finalizing a host agreement too early may be an unwise move.
He said the reason for the initial strong, negative response years ago to a casino in or near Sturbridge was precipitated in part by an entirely different set of circumstances.
"When the casino was proposed for Union, Conn., and into Sturbridge it was under the Indian Gaming Act and there were a lot of other issues involved with that," Mr. Blanchard said. "That was a much bigger project and there was no structure like we have now in the state Expanded Gaming Act that Massachusetts has since passed."
He said the guidelines and criteria in the MEGA are quite detailed, since they focus on the socio-economic impact of a casino and economic development, because the far-reaching goal of the legislation is to spur economic growth not only in the host community, but in the entire region.
He said the criteria now involved reaches out to tourist associations and business groups, and provide for more defined rules than the concept of having a casino come into a town under the Indian Gaming Act. That process allowed the sovereignty of the Indian tribe involved the right to have all businesses related to the casino on its property and under its control.
Former Palmer Town Councilor David E. Whitney said there still appears to be resident support for a casino in town because people are counting on it for jobs and substantial income for the town.
"I would say, just from my own experience, that people in Palmer generally favor it, but there is some opposition as well," Mr. Whitney said. He said there is an opposition group called Quaboag Valley Against Casinos.
QVAC has a website at casinofacts.org/palmer.
There are two groups in support of a casino in town, according to Mr. Whitney. One is called Palmer Businesses for a Palmer Casino and the other is Palmer Citizens for Jobs and Growth.
He said some of the residents in opposition focus on the increased traffic and the affect on small businesses, in addition to a bad taste for gaming itself.
"I personally believe that it won't be as terrific as the major proponents say and as awful as the opponents say," Mr. Whitney said. "It'll be somewhere in the middle."
Mr. Blanchard said that regardless of what time frame is established by the state Gaming Commission, the town of Palmer and Mohegan Sun are in a position to meet it.
The host community agreement will spell out the projected effect of a casino.
"It's my responsibility, in particular, to work to draft a host community agreement that really does a good job in defining what all the benefits are and all the downsides of a casino," Mr. Blanchard said.
The biggest sources of income for the town from the casinos and ancillary businesses will be the property taxes, hotel and motel taxes and meals taxes.
Mr. Blanchard said the cornerstone of the MEGA is the job creation involved in such a proposal, including construction jobs to build the casino complex and related businesses, and the permanent jobs to staff and run the casino
"Depending on the overall size of it there are a lot of jobs involved."
Mr. Whitney said he knows the opposition has strong views and reasons for being against a casino here, but he is buying into the plan.
"I believe we need it for the jobs."


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Reasons for Procedure
An amputation below the knee may be done because of:
- Poor blood flow that cannot be fixed
- Tumors
- Trauma or injury
- Severe infection
Possible Complications
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Your doctor will review potential problems, like:
- Poor healing of the amputation site that may require a higher level amputation
- Skin breakdown at the residual limb
- Infection
- Decreased range of motion in the hip or knee
- Phantom sensation —feeling that the amputated limb is still there
- Phantom pain —feeling pain in the amputation area
- Stump swelling
- Bleeding
- Reaction to anesthesia
- Heart attack
- Blood clots
Before your procedure, talk to your doctor about ways to manage factors that may increase your risk of complications, such as:
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
Your doctor may do the following before your procedure:
- Physical exam
- Blood tests
- Imaging tests, such as x-rays or scans
- Have you donate blood in case you need a transfusion
- Prescribe antibiotics to prevent infection
Before surgery, you will need to:
- Arrange for a ride home.
- Arrange for help at home while you recover.
- Ask your doctor about devices you will need after the surgery, such as an artificial limb, walker , crutches, and/or wheelchair.
Talk to your doctor about any medications, herbs, or supplements you are taking. You may need to stop taking some medications up to 1 week before the procedure.
Do not eat or drink anything after midnight the day before your surgery, unless told otherwise by your doctor.
You may be given either:
- General anesthesia —you will be asleep through the surgery
- Spinal anesthesia —you will be numbed from the waist down
- Regional anesthesia —used to block pain in the lower legs, but you will not be asleep
Description of Procedure
A cut will be made in the skin below the knee. The muscles will be separated and blood vessels clamped. A special saw will be used to cut through the bone. The muscles will be sewn and shaped so that a stump is formed to cushion the bone. Nerves will be separated and placed so that they do not cause pain. Blood vessels will be tied off. The skin will be closed over the muscles, forming the stump. Drains may be inserted into the stump to drain blood for the first few days. A dressing and compression stocking will be placed over the stump.
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How Long Will It Take?
Several hours, depending on your health and the reason for the surgery
How Much Will It Hurt?
Anesthesia will prevent pain during surgery. Pain and discomfort after the procedure can be managed with medications.
Average Hospital Stay
The usual length of stay is 5-14 days. It is possible that you may have to stay longer if complications arise. You may also go to a rehabilitation hospital to help you recover.
Post-procedure Care
Right after the procedure, you will be in a recovery room where your blood pressure, pulse, and breathing will be monitored. Recovery may also include:
- Pain medications
- Antibiotics to prevent infection
- Medication to prevent blood clots
Physical therapy often starts within 24 hours after your surgery. During this time you may need devices to help you walk.
During your stay, the hospital staff will take steps to reduce your chance of infection, such as:
- Washing their hands
- Wearing gloves or masks
- Keeping your incisions covered
There are also steps you can take to reduce your chance of infection, such as:
- Washing your hands often and reminding your healthcare providers to do the same
- Reminding your healthcare providers to wear gloves or masks
- Not allowing others to touch your incision
When you return home, you will continue with physical therapy and exercise. You will be instructed on how to care for the residual limb. Medications may be prescribed to manage pain.
Adjusting to an amputation may be difficult and can lead to depression . Consider talking to a therapist or psychologist.
Call Your Doctor
Contact your doctor if your recovery is not progressing as expected or you develop complications, such as:
- Increased swelling in the residual limb
- Poorly fitting prosthesis
- Pain that cannot be controlled with the medication you were given
- Signs of infection, such as fever or chills
- Increasing redness, swelling, increasing pain, excess bleeding, or discharge from the incision site
- Persistent nausea or vomiting
- Increased symptoms of depression
- New or persistent cough , shortness of breath, or chest pain
- Joint pain, fatigue, stiffness, rash, or other new symptoms
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
American Diabetes Association http://www.diabetes.org
Amputee Coalition of America http://www.amputee-coalition.org
Canadian Diabetes Association http://www.diabetes.ca
Health Canada https://www.canada.ca
Amputation. John Hopkins Medicine website. Available at: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/adult/physical%5Fmedicine%5Fand%5Frehabilitation/amputation%5F85,P01141. Accessed November 10, 2017.
Amputation. Society for Vascular Surgery website. Available at: https://vascular.org/patient-resources/vascular-treatments/amputation. Accessed November 10, 2017.
Amputation procedure. Johns Hopkins Medicine website. Available at: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/test%5Fprocedures/cardiovascular/amputation%5Fprocedure%5F92,P08292. Accessed November 10, 2017.
Management of acute and critical limb ischemia. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: https://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T901128/Management-of-acute-and-critical-limb-ischemia . Updated September 8, 2017. Accessed November 10, 2017.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Warren A. Bodine, DO, CAQSM
- Review Date: 11/2018
- Update Date: 12/20/2014


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- Advanced threat protection to ensure maximum network security and performance
- Comprehensive protection against sophisticated evasion techniques utilized by modern threats
- Application traffic awareness, visualization and granular control for risk mitigation and increased network productivity
Dell today announced the Dell SonicWALL™ SuperMassive™ 9000 Series Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), built from the ground up to meet the needs of enterprise networks by delivering security, productivity, performance, and scalability without compromise. Providing complete advanced threat protection including high performance intrusion prevention and anti-malware at multi-gigabit speeds with near zero latency, the Dell SonicWALL SuperMassive 9000 Series delivers carrier-class network security and performance along with the industry's highest core density architecture in an elegant one-rack appliance that also saves space, power, and cooling costs.
The SuperMassive 9000 Series includes the 9600, 9400, and 9200 models and offers full IPS and application control performance up to 12Gbps. Its compact 1U power efficient high port density form factor is designed with the total cost of ownership (TCO) and power/space/cooling (PSC) requirements of modern enterprise data centers in mind. With 4 SFP+ 10GbE interfaces, 16 1GbE interfaces and a dedicated management interface, the SuperMassive 9000 Series can be deployed in a variety of networks in either a traditional gateway security deployment or as an additional layer of security for traditional networks in a transparent layer 2 bridge or wire-mode deployment.
"Our performance has increased by 10 times. The firewall has provided us with advanced threat protection and high performance intrusion prevention," said Abdullah Alfi, engineer at King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. "The one-rack appliances which saves space, power and cooling costs delivers network security throughout the hospital. We were able to reduce our costs and are satisfied that we have comprehensive protection against sophisticated threats."
"The volume, form and sophistication of malware inflict huge vulnerability challenges on the corporate network," said Patrick Sweeney, executive director, product management, Dell SonicWALL. "At the same time, enterprises struggle to balance the need for network access and performance with network protection. The Dell SonicWALL SuperMassive 9000 Series solves exactly these enterprise challenges through technology generally associated with carrier-class networks."
Unlike legacy firewall and intrusion prevention technologies, the Dell SonicWALL SuperMassive 9000 Series blocks threats before they enter the network by looking at all traffic, regardless of port or protocol, using Dell SonicWALL's patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI) technology. The Dell RFDPI engine scans every byte of every packet of network traffic across all ports and delivers full content inspection to eliminate threats and includes full inspection of SSL-encrypted traffic as well as non-proxyable applications. It also provides protection against millions of unique malware variants without file size, performance or latency limitations
While RFDPI protects the network against threats, the Dell SuperMassive 9000 Series' Application Intelligence and Control features ensure optimal network productivity and bandwidth through the identification of productive and unproductive application traffic in real-time which can then be controlled through powerful application-level policies. Network administrators can schedule application controls based on business priority and can throttle unproductive applications and block potentially dangerous applications.


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- Azure Resource Manager Tools: Create and edit Azure Resource Manager templates containing Virtual Machines, Network topologies and Storage resources. The JSON editor has been updated to provide a better template editing experience and you can now deploy the templates using PowerShell.
- Diagnostics improvements for Cloud Services: Diagnostics logs can be collected and transferred to development storage when debugging your application locally in the Azure compute emulator. The Diagnostics storage account connection string makes it easier to use different diagnostics storage accounts for different environments. Viewing diagnostics errors is easier with usability improvements to the diagnostics summary page and the ability to export logs to a CSV file.
- Azure App Service tools: Improved code-generation experience for consuming API apps. Updates to Server Explorer's App Service functionality
- HDInsight tools: Improvements to Hive Intellisense. Connect to HDInsight emulator from Visual Studio for local Hive script testing and support for generic Hadoop clusters (Preview)
- Add Connected Services: The Add Connected Services experience now includes the ability to add Application Insights to your web and mobile apps. Azure Storage can now be added to WebJob projects through the Add Connected Services dialog.
- Enterprise Single Sign On: Configure enterprise single sign on (SSO) easily using Azure Active Directory.
Azure Resource Manager ToolsAzure Resource Manager Templates enable you to define your application resources in a declarative manner. Using JSON the declarative templates can easily integrate into your dev-> test-> release lifecycle. With Azure SDK 2.6 you can now define Azure Resource Manager templates that use Virtual Machines, Networking and Storage. You can create an Azure Resource Manager Template from File-> New Project -> Visual C# (or Visual Basic)-> Cloud -> Azure Resource Group. When creating a new project you can select from a list of common Azure Gallery templates. Azure SDK 2.6 includes new templates for various Virtual Machine and Network Configurations.
Improved Resource Manager Template support in the JSON EditorThe Azure Resource Manager tools make it easy to visualize and edit the resources defined in the JSON templates. The template editing experience in Visual Studio includes a new JSON Outline tool window that makes it easier to navigate your template file and add and delete resources. When you click on an item in the tool window, the JSON editor will automatically scroll to the item in the template file and highlight it. You can easily edit the JSON Template by using toolbar buttons at the top of the JSON Outline window to add and delete resources. The Add Resource button opens a dialog that allows you to pick from many resources. Clicking the Add button will add the JSON required for that resource to your template. You can also specify dependencies for the resource and quickly create templates that deploy a wide variety of resources without having to write the JSON. You can deploy your template from Visual Studio by right-clicking on the Azure Resource Group project node in Solution Explorer. When deploying your template from within Visual Studio, Visual Studio runs the PowerShell script that is included in your resource group project to deploy the template. You can deploy the template independent of your application code. The recently announced PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio extension can be used to update and maintain the PowerShell deployment scripts. Now you have full control over how your template is deployed and can use the same procedure when deploying from Visual Studio or from command line for automated deployments.
Diagnostics Improvements for Cloud Services
Diagnostics support in Compute EmulatorsAzure SDK 2.6 brings back support for collecting diagnostics logs for your Cloud Service in the Azure compute emulator. Application trace logs, Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) logs, performance counters, infrastructure logs and windows event logs generated when the application is running in the emulator can be transferred to development storage to verify that your diagnostics logging is working on your local machine. This enables you to test out your application logging strategy while still developing your application locally with Visual Studio. Transferring the diagnostics logs to storage emulator can be enabled by setting the diagnostics storage account connection string (Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString) to UseDevelopmentStorage=True. This will enable diagnostics data collection and all diagnostics data is collected in the Storage Emulator accessed through Server Explorer under the (Development) node.
Configuring diagnostics for multiple environmentsThe diagnostics storage account connection string (Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString) is stored once again in the service configuration (.cscfg) file and can be configured from the Role Designer. This enables you to have a different Diagnostics Storage account for each Service configuration so that your diagnostics data can be transferred to a different storage account based on the service configuration you are deploying with. To simplify the process of enabling the Azure Diagnostics extension in an automated deployment when using tools like PowerShell, the Visual Studio package output now includes the public configuration XML needed to configure the diagnostics extension. The public configuration files are created in an Extensions subfolder in the package output and follow the pattern PaaSDiagnostics.<RoleName>.PubConfig.xml. These public configuration files are also prepopulated with the storage account name that was specified with the Diagnostics connection string. Any PowerShell based deployments can use the file naming pattern to map each configuration to a Role and use the configuration along with the storage account name present in the configuration to enable diagnostics for each Role. While the diagnostics storage account connection string is similar to the one used with Azure SDK 2.4 there are some notable differences in how it is used in SDK 2.6. For more information on how to use the Diagnostics Storage connection string and how it impacts your projects see Configuring Diagnostics for Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines.
Viewing Diagnostics DataAzure SDK 2.6 also improves the experience of viewing diagnostics logs. The Diagnostics summary page for viewing diagnostics data for a role can be accessed by right clicking on the role in Server Explorer and selecting View diagnostics data. The summary page provides a quick way to diagnose issues in your dev/test environments by displaying the various errors logs from your Role. The summary page now uses a tabular layout to display the different types of logs to allow for more screen real estate to view the log data. You can also set the page to Auto-Refresh at specific intervals so you are always viewing fresh diagnostics data. Lastly you can now export the error logs to a CSV file for analysis in other tools like Excel. The export to CSV functionality is also available in Table Storage explorer enabling you to export all Table storage data to a CSV file.
Richer log analysis using ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana)The Visual Studio storage explorer and diagnostics summary page are helpful with diagnosing issues in dev/test environments. For production environments many customers have been adopting Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana (or ELK) for log search and custom data visualizations over large amounts of log data. To simplify using Azure Diagnostics log data with ELK we have created PowerShell scripts that can help spin up an ELK cluster on Azure as well as pull in the Azure Diagnostics log data to Elastic Search through a Logstash plugin. You can try these out at https://aka.ms/AzureDiagnosticsElk
Azure App Service Tooling UpdatesIn the Azure SDK 2.5.1 release, we announced new tooling support for API Apps in Visual Studio 2013 on the Visual Studio blog. Since the 2.5.1 update we've made improvements to the C# code-generation functionality for consuming your API apps, as well as responding to some opportunities for improving performance in the new Azure App Service nodes in the Server Explorer.
HDInsight Tools
Remote metadata suggestion in Hive IntelliSenseHDInsight tools now support getting remote metadata when editing your Hive script. For example, you can type SELECT * FROM and all the table names for the cluster selected in HDInsight toolbar will be shown. Once a table is specified, column name suggestions for that table are also shown. Note that populating the table or column name might take long when you first create a script since Visual Studio needs to contact to remote server to get the data.
HDInsight emulator supportYou can now connect to the HDInsight emulator from Visual Studio. This enables you to develop your Hive scripts locally without incurring any cost, then execute those scripts against your HDInsight clusters. For more information see: Getting started with HDInsight emulator.
Support for generic Hadoop clusters (Preview)With support for generic Hadoop clusters you can now use HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio to do the following:
- Connect to your cluster
- Write Hive query with enhanced IntelliSense/auto-completion support
- View all the jobs in your cluster with an intuitive UI


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Oneida County using iPads to do lead inspections better, faster
UTICA- The Oneida County Lead Poisoning Prevention field staff recently acquired technology designed to increase their productivity.
The department recently acquired eight new iPads for their field staff allowing the investigators to update reports from the field and save trips back and forth to problematic sites.
"Since this technology reduces the number of times staff needs to return to the office between inspections there is a savings in mileage costs and travel time as well, freeing up staff for additional inspections," said Quality Improvement Coordinator Cathe Bullwinkle.
The iPads will free up the equivalent of half a full-time employee. The department should be able to handle at least 312 more inspections every year, at an effective cost of $38 per inspection this year.
The iPads were acquired through a New York State Department of Health's Lead Primary Prevention grant.
Also, the high-resolution cameras integrated into the iPads and the PalmTech inspection app allows the investigators to take photos and notes in the field and submit all of the data remotely from the cloud.
The time saved between trips not only frees up staff, but additional inspection requirements can be determined while the investigator is still on the scene via the FaceTime videoconferencing app.
"In this challenging fiscal climate, my administration is continuously exploring cost effective methods to exploit technological solutions that allow our employees to work smarter and more productively," said Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente. "Employing tablet technology allows our LPP staff to inspect more houses each month, protecting more children from the hazards of lead-based paint."
Houses built before 1978 are the highest risk, especially if they are deteriorated. Lead from paints can get into household dust and become a hazard especially for small children under the age of six who are prone to putting their hands and other objects into their mouths.
If you believe your home may need to be inspected, contact your local or state health inspectors.
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The Washington Post - February 17, 2011
Ten Commandments in school stirs fight in Va. district
By Kevin Sieff | Washington Post Staff Writer
PEARISBURG, VA. - Nearly 12 years ago, in the aftermath of the shootings at Columbine High School, officials quietly posted the Ten Commandments on the walls of Giles County public schools. It was a natural reaction, said residents of this rural county peppered with churches, to such an alarming moral breakdown.
There the commandments stayed, within nondescript frames that also featured the first page of the U.S. Constitution, stirring little controversy until December. That's when an anonymous complaint prompted the superintendent to order the removal of the displays. The decision sparked such passionate community backlash that the county school board voted to post them again in January.
Now the fight appears headed to the courts as residents of Giles County, along Virginia's rugged, pious southwestern spine, fight what they call mounting pressure from Washington and Richmond to secularize their public institutions. The district also runs a so-called "Bible Bus" so that students can get privately organized Christian instruction off site during the middle of the school day.
"The commandments have been a compass for our lives," said Jared Rader, principal of the county's Macy McClaugherty Elementary School. "It's something that the county feels strongly about, something we think our children should learn from."
The commandments are featured on 81/2-by-11-inch pieces of paper in six schools, generally hung on white cinder block near main entrances and hallways.
School officials say the displays should be legal because the commandments are a historical document, included as part of a monument to the principles - some of them relgious - on which the country was founded.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation disagree. They plan to file a lawsuit on behalf of two plaintiffs, who have asked the court to withhold their names for fear of retribution.
"The school board is ignoring a core principle our country was founded on. Apparently they've never heard of the First Amendment or the Bill of Rights," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which describes itself as a national organization of atheists and agnostics. "And they're using our schoolchildren as pawns."
The displays were the idea of a Giles County pastor, and they have generated objections on at least one other occasion. In 2004, Sarah McNair, Giles High School senior, sent letters to county politicians, calling the display of the commandments an infringement on her rights and a "serious issue that cannot be ignored."
Both Virginia's secretary of education and the superintendent of public instruction dismissed her concerns, said McNair, now 24, who moved from Fairfax to Giles County.
But when the issue flared again, in December, school officials consulted with legal counsel and decided to remove them. Yet when students learned that the commandments had been removed, they distributed hundreds of photocopies of the edict, pasting them on lockers around the school. Weeks later, the halls were still papered with makeshift scrolls, next to photos of football players and fliers advertising sketch comedy routines.
"This whole thing just makes me feel small," said Kearsley Dillon, 16, a sophomore who helped distribute the commandments. "I have my faith and that's the most important thing to me. But this is really discouraging. What can a 16-year-old do?"
The turning point was a raucous school board meeting attended by more than 100 Giles County residents. Hanging the commandments is "a right" and "a blessing" and "a moral obligation," residents said in the public forum.
"We are not Montgomery County, Maryland," resident Judy Lawson said in the crowded room. "We are not Northern Virginia."
By the end of the meeting, the school board had voted unanimously to restore the Ten Commandments. And the Board of Supervisors soon after decided to support the decision, agreeing to help fund the district's legal defense.
"We would rather fight the ACLU or whoever would come up than have one anonymous coward who would not even sign the letter come in and tell us how to run our schools," said Eric Gentry, chairman of the county's Board of Supervisors.
Public displays featuring the Ten Commandments have caused legal clashes for decades. The Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that a Kentucky policy requiring the commandments on the walls of public school classrooms violated the First Amendment. But in 2005, the court upheld the inclusion of the commandments as part of a monument which included 16 other historical documents on the Texas State Capitol grounds.
Scholars say that the 1980 case, Stone v. Graham, will likely preclude the school board from legally displaying the commandments on school grounds. "The school board is making a bet that the Supreme Court will overrule that decision," said Douglas Laycock, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Virginia School of Law. "For a little school board down in the mountains, it's an expensive endeavor."
Although court decisions have underscored the line between church and state, many residents - who are quick to call Giles a "Christian county" - have expressed a desire to fight back against federal and state intrusions.
The county's government buildings feature posters reading "In God We Trust" near their entrances. After the Supreme Court ruled that prayer in school was unconstitutional, the district introduced its weekly "Bible Bus," which facilitates religious classes for most of the county's elementary school students. That initiative is legal, according to local officials, because it's voluntary, and the bus is privately owned and operated.
Elsewhere in the nation, schools are trying to keep religion in public schools - prayers at high school football games and in classrooms, nativity scenes on school property. The Freedom from Religion Foundation every year receives about 300 formal complaints, many of them involving school districts, according to Gaylor.
Yet she called the Giles County case "one of the most egregious we've seen."
In Giles, residents say the Ten Commandments display enjoys nearly universal support among those who grew up in the county. They say only outsiders - such as legal organizations in Richmond and Wisconsin - would question such a core aspect of the culture.
Some consider Jonathan Jochem to be such an outsider. An ACLU member, he moved to Giles County from Chicago 11 years ago and quickly fell in love with the open spaces and the generous people. "They're good Christians in the best sense of the word," he said. "But their knowledge of the Constitution is distorted."
Jochem was shocked when he first heard about the county's Bible Bus, and bothered by the school board's refusal to remove the commandments from public schools. Like several other community members, he supports the ACLU's lawsuit.
But with the current controversy spurred by an anonymous complaint, and a lawsuit expected to be introduced with two anonymous plaintiffs, Giles County residents say they have little reason to believe that there is much of a local fracture.
The debate, said Shahn Wilburn, the pastor who first suggested displaying the Ten Commandments after Columbine, is "Giles County versus Washington. David versus Goliath."
"I know that story," he added. "And I know who won."
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Secular News Daily - February 18, 2011
Commandments Clash: Va. County Has One Last Chance To Avoid A Lawsuit – And Should Take It
Rob Boston | senior policy analyst at Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Public education officials in Giles County, Va., can't say they weren't warned.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) wrote to school officials recently telling them to remove Ten Commandments displays from the schools. The officials were also advised by their own attorney to take down the religious posters.
At first, they did. But when members of the community complained, the school board voted to put the Ten Commandments back into the schools.
The ACLU and the FFRF have warned the officials one last time: They have plaintiffs and are ready to file a lawsuit.
Today's Washington Post reports that the battle in Giles County began 12 years ago, when school officials decided to post the Ten Commandments in the schools. A high school senior complained in 2004, but local officials ignored her.
The new round of objections is much more serious. Both the ACLU and FFRF have sent warning letters to school officials, pointing out that the school system is in clear violation of a 1980 Supreme Court decision called Stone v. Graham. In that ruling, the high court struck down a Kentucky law that mandated posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
The court rightly pointed out that the Ten Commandments are a religious document. They are found in the Old Testament and are clearly designed to impart religious instruction. At least half of them deal strictly with matters of how one ought to practice religion.
When a public school system posts the Ten Commandments, it is taking sides in theological matters that are none of its business. Why should officials in the Giles County schools care if students decide to worship "false gods"? (Exactly which gods are these, anyway? Does the school system keep a list?)
Should school officials get worked up if students bow to graven images? (Does that include a Roman Catholic who venerates a statute of a saint?)
Is it the schools' job to ensure that students honor the Sabbath? (By the way, which day is that – Friday, Saturday or Sunday?)
Other provisions in the commandments reflect commonsense rules that are found in every religious or ethical tradition. I would hope that officials in Giles County would teach students not to murder, lie and steal even if those things weren't mentioned in the Ten Commandments.
Giles County school officials didn't ask for my advice, but here it is anyway: Don't let this matter go to court. You will lose. These are challenging times for the economy, and I'm sure your school system has better ways to spend taxpayer money than squandering it on a hopeless court battle.
And please do not be swayed by the dulcet promises of slick Religious Right legal groups that vow to defend you for free. Sure, their lawyers will work on their own dime, but when you lose the case your school district will be handed a big, fat bill for the attorneys' fees of the ACLU and the FFRF. The Religious Right legal group won't pick up the tab for that.
Finally, I'd like to advise the school board that it needs to get out of the religion business – and I really must insist on this. Just stop. What you are doing is wrong. Deciding what faith (if any) children should learn about is a job for parents, not school officials.
And don't give me that line about how you're only trying to improve young people's ethical behavior. If that's your goal, you can do it without posting a specific religious document. Personally, I think there are some interesting ethical statements in the Wiccan Rede, the Eightfold Path of Buddhism and even the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus. But I suspect you're not likely to post those, are you?
It's time for a separation of church and school in Giles County. The fact that these two are jumbled up is apparent in the words of Jared Rader, principal of Macy McClaugherty Elementary School, who told The Post, "The commandments have been a compass for our lives. It's something that the county feels strongly about, something we think our children should learn from."
Great. If everyone in the county is so big on the Ten Commandments, I'm sure parents are already teaching their kids about them in the places where it makes sense to do that – at home and at church.
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A Tribute to Warren D. Rogers
By Jim Youngquist
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[June 27, 2014]
From the time our family first
arrived in Lincoln we heard the name Warren Rogers from the people we
were introduced to and came to know. He was always described as being
just a little larger than life. He had a reputation, you see.
A student of the Bible, a man of faith, a servant in
the field, a revival speaker, a builder of church buildings, a
student in the seminary, an elder at Elkhart Christian Church, one
who reached out to those who were in need, one who along with his
wife Sue lived their faith in action while others expressed their
faith with words.
This was the Warren Rogers I came to know.
Warren seemed to have an inexhaustible source of energy. Even when
he had to sit his parts seemed to still be moving. He put that
energy into everything that he touched. While infirmities seem to
stop many of us, his didn't seem to even slow him down until they
finally stopped him.
Warren had a gift for listening. If someone had an idea, Warren
wanted to hear it and took pains to keep his mouth shut and listen.
When you were finished, he was slow to speak but asked astute
questions to help bring clarity, and then finished by letting you
know his opinion. And he wasn't always favorably disposed. He wasn't
a man to placate you to gain your favor. He put what he thought and
what he knew right out there, whatever the results.
This was the kind of honesty you could expect from Warren Rogers.
Warren was a stubborn man. He was stubbornly in favor of what he
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His stubbornness helped move things along when they were stuck; and
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On mission trips to Haiti and other parts of the world, Warren used
his skills to design and build homes and church buildings, and when
he left he came home with only the clothes on his back. He gave
everything else away to those who were in need.
This was the Warren Rogers I came to serve beside.
A State Police officer, a paramedic, a deputy coroner. Warren was
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His stories about others were about valor and the dignity of life.
He suffered in the personal tragedies of others.
Warren was always a man of honor. His word was good. His devotion to
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This was the Warren Rogers I came to call my friend.
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Julie Barker-Merz recalls shooting up the corporate ladder very quickly when she started at the bank nearly two decades ago. But by the time she became a manager in her mid-30s, she was no longer ascending while her male counterparts kept moving up.
Now the vice-president and chief operating office at BMO Insurance, Barker-Merz said it made her reassess why she was being judged purely on her performance, while her colleagues were being judged only by their potential.
"But I did break through (the glass ceiling)," she said, citing the importance of women in the industry supporting each other.
"As women, we all need our tribe, people we can call and get our support from," said Barker-Merz. "As leaders, we have that responsibility to help start that and spark that flame."
Barker-Merz was part of a panel of top female executives at the Bank of Montreal on Wednesday who discussed the need for the financial industry to change its ways if it wants to succeed at recruiting more female employees.
Charyl Galpin, who is co-head of BMO Nesbitt Burns, said the industry is beginning to understand the value of attracting women into adviser roles amid changing demographics.
"There's been a lot of change and a lot of recognition that it's a diversity of skill sets that makes a great company," Galpin, who is also a managing director and executive vice-president. "We should be exploiting every opportunity to do that."
Galpin said young workers, particularly women, have been traditionally turned off by a perception that the investment industry is an ultra-competitive workplace defined by long hours and a lack of female mentors.
"The (investment) field has been very slow in moving in that direction, of trying to find ways of letting junior employees have a life outside of work," said Alison Konrad, the Corus Entertainment chair in Women in Management at the Ivey Business School.
The lack of gender diversity in the financial sector, and in other male-dominated industries like consulting, oil, gas and mining, has been a hot-button topic during the past year with the Ontario Securities Commission considering proposals on how to increase the number of women on corporate boards.
In January, the OSC proposed that all publicly-listed businesses be required to disclose targets for the number of women in high-ranking positions as directors and executive officers on their boards, reveal how they search and select candidates and decide who to hire.
The recommendations, which will be revisited in April, shied away from enforcing hard quotes, which some observers said was the only way to enforce change. Others argued that a quota system would force the promotion of unqualified candidates solely to meet gender requirements.
Konrad said industries reluctant to make changes internally will find it most difficult to improve on gender diversity.
"Some of those industries rule themselves out for female talent because they can't get outside the traditional box in how they organize the work," she said.
Karin Mizgala, co-founder of the for-profit advocacy group the Women's Financial Learning Centre, estimates that only about 20 per cent of advisers in Canada are female.
"It really is a shame," said Mizgala.
"Knowing the actual mechanics of investments is important, but not as important as understanding the clients. A lot of women may just shy away from the role as an adviser if they think it's just all about the numbers but it should be more thinking about the holistic side of things."
But the financial industry is making changes. In February, a new policy at BMO Capital Markets requires junior employees to take off at least one weekend a month. In April, BMO Nesbitt Burns will begin a recruitment campaign on its investment website to dispel some of the myths around working conditions in the financial sector.
Galpin said technology has changed, allowing employees more flexibility to manage work amid other family commitments, which is attractive to all employees.
"It's not just a women's issue anymore," said Galpin, who started at the bank 35 years ago as a teller.
"It's not about balance. The new word is integration now. How does your work life work with your personal life? "
Meanwhile, a BMO survey released Thursday found that 55 per cent of Canadians recently polled say they think there is still a "glass ceiling" for women in the financial services industry, while 62 per cent of women agreed with the statement.
Two-thirds of Canadians polled say men have more career opportunities than their female colleagues, while 87 per cent say women need to do more to help their female employees strike a balance between work and home life. Eighty-nine per cent of women agreed.
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Is texting while driving still a concern?
Research around smartphone use while driving from State Farm® shows that texting while driving remains a concern on the nation's highways, but drivers also are accessing other mobile web services at much higher rates. And these behaviors may pose equal or greater concerns in the battle against distracted driving. In a distracted driving survey of nearly 900 motorists, the company found use of mobile web services decreased slightly for drivers ages 18-29 but increased for all drivers overall.
Texting while driving has evolved into mobile web use while driving
For ages 18-29
- Accessing the internet while on a cell phone while driving decreased from 54% in 2015 to 50% in 2016, up from 29% in 2009.
- Reading social media networks while driving decreased from 44% in 2015 to 43% in 2016, up from 21% in 2009.
- Updating social networks while driving increased from 34% in 2015 to 35% in 2016, up from 20% in 2009.
- Playing games on cell phone while driving is 19% in 2016.
For drivers of all ages
- Accessing the internet while on a cell phone while driving stayed steady at 29% in 2015 and 2016, up from 13% in 2009.
- Reading social media networks while driving increased from 21% in 2015 to 22% in 2016, up from 9% in 2009.
- Updating social networks while driving increased from 16% in 2015 to 19% in 2016, up from 9% in 2009.
- Playing games on cell phone while driving is 10% in 2016.
Texting while driving still a concern for small businesses with drivers
Ironically, the study showed that use of texting while driving decreased in the younger audience while increasing overall:
- Distracted driving is the cause of 1 in 4 fleet crashes.
- Distracted driving accounts for nearly 40% of all fleet crashes.
- Research conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration found that the odds of being involved in a safety-critical event are 23.2 times greater for commercial motor vehicle drivers who text while driving.
- Texting while driving can result in driver disqualification and penalties up to $2,750 for drivers and $11,000 for employers.
What can you do about texting while driving and mobile web use?
Distracted driving threatens the lives of many drivers, passengers, and pedestrians every day. However, you can help fight against distracted driving by avoiding dangerous habits such as texting while driving, accessing your mobile phone while driving, among other risky behaviors.
About the survey
In August 2016, the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm) Strategic Resources Department conducted an online survey with adults 18 and older to examine their attitudes and behaviors regarding distracted driving. This survey was the eighth wave of a study first conducted in August 2009.


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Survey Results – Part 1: Social influence of significant others regarding green consumer decision making
February 19, 2011 in environmental, Environmental attitude, snowboarding, Survey results, sustainability | Tags: action sports, Arctic Challenge, changing behavior, consumer behavior, eco-friendly, environment, environmental, green outerwear, Jeremy Jones, Marketing, marketing research, motivation to comply, Nicolas Mueller, outdoor, peer group, producers, snowboarding, social influence, survey results, sustainability, Terje Haakonsen | 1 comment
In my research I used a modified version of the Theory of Planned Behavior to understand green consumer behavior in the outdoor sports industry better. The basic idea behind this psychological model is the following. Alongside previous authors, I argue that five different key factors influence an individual's purchasing intention when making sustainable consumer decisions:
- Their positive or negative attitudes towards the effects of the specific buying decision, which consist of a function of (product-related) beliefs and expectations about the likelihood of their occurence (discussed in the previous blog);
- The positive or negative influence that significant others in the individuals social surroundings exert on the buying decision (the so-called "Subjective Norms" factor);
- The perceived lack of control about the behavior or obstacles that hinder the buying process (e.g. a lack of availability of sustainable clothing in local stores);
- A feeling of ethical obligation;
- The effects of green consumer self-identity or in this context, the influence a certain context-related measure of self-identity, called environmental identity has.
While "environmental identity" (measuring someone's relatedness to nature) was the main variable I discussed in my thesis, subjective norms had also been part of the model but received less attention. Therefore, this blog entry is giving some further inside about the results regarding the influence of the social world everybody is embed in. Read the rest of this entry »


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Neuronal growth factor receptor protects the sympathetic nervous system in Alzheimer's disease
Neuronal growth factor receptor protects the sympathetic nervous system in Alzheimer's disease
La Jolla, CA—New research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies casts the role of a neuronal growth factor receptor—long suspected to facilitate the toxic effects of beta amyloid in Alzheimer's disease—in a new light, suggesting the molecule actually protects the neuron in the periphery from beta amyloid-induced damage.
The receptor molecule in question, a protein better known as p75, regulates neuronal growth, survival, and degeneration, and guides nerve fibers in growing embryos to their final destinations. Some studies have suggested that it also exacerbates the neurotoxicity associated with beta amyloid deposits, which litter the brains of Alzheimer's patients, giving the molecule its questionable reputation.
Top: The neuronal wiring (shown in red) of the heart in Alzheimer's mice appears normal. Bottom: The sympathetic innervation in p75-deficient Alzheimer's mice is severely impaired.
Image: Courtesy of Lee Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Yet a team of scientists in the laboratory of Kuo-Fen Lee, Ph.D., a professor in the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, found that p75 instead has a neuroprotective effect on the sympathetic nervous system in mice that were genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer's disease.
Their findings, published in this week's early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge the prevailing view of p75's harmful role in the condition and could lead to new insights and, ultimately, new protocols for managing the secondary deficits that accompany dementia and memory loss in Alzheimer's.
Scientific interest in the peripheral nervous system has been growing as investigators studying neurodegenerative diseases seek new insights into disease progression. "How a disease damages the peripheral nervous system could add a great deal to our understanding of its process, possibly leading to applications down the line that impact patient management and quality of life issues," says Lee, who led the study.
Proteins, like people, are often judged by the company they keep. p75, for instance, belongs to the same family as tumor necrosis factor and was widely thought to mediate cell death in some context. Various in vitro studies have examined p75 in combination with beta amyloid, seeking evidence that it helps induce nerve cell death in Alzheimer's disease.
To gather evidence about p75 and the sympathetic nervous system, Lee's team crossed a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease with a line of mice genetically modified to lack the gene for p75. Without p75, they theorized, the neurotoxic effects of beta amyloid would be reduced, and the mice would show fewer Alzheimer's symptoms.
"The role of p75 had been controversial for some time, but based on the evidence at the time, we expected to see indications that it mediates beta amyloid neurotoxicity," says co-first author Tasha Bengoechea, Ph.D., a former graduate student in Lee's lab. "We thought removing p75 while overexpressing amyloid would have a positive effect on neuron viability. The opposite was true."
Along with profound motor problems, the p75-deficient mice exhibited severe defects in the wiring of nerves to multiple organs, and the majority died within just three weeks. (Mice normally live up to two years.) When the researchers scaled down the production of toxic beta amyloid by deleting one copy of BACE1, which encodes the molecular shears that make the first cut in the production of beta amyloid fragments, the nerves in the sympathetic nervous system of p75-deficient mice were substantially restored.
"This is the first time the interplay between p75 and beta amyloid in the peripheral sympathetic system, a system that has not been paid much attention before, has been demonstrated," adds postdoctoral researcher and co-first author Zhijiang Chen, Ph.D. "Our findings will ultimately help to design novel strategies to treat the symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease and improve the quality of life for Alzheimer's disease patients."
The study was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Researchers who also contributed to the work included postdoctoral researcher Deborah O'Leary, Ph.D., of the Salk Institute's Clayton Foundation Peptide Biology Laboratory, and Eliezer Masliah, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego.
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused on both discovery and mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorders by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
Faculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, M.D., the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark.


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Most children feel like they don't belong or fit in or that there's something wrong about them sometimes. But fat kids, that feeling is often validated by the kids and — much worse — the adults around them. It really sucks to have the people you look up to tell you there's something wrong with you, especially when the solutions they offer — if they do offer any — are more detrimental than anything else.


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8 WKU faculty members selected for inaugural seminar to Ecuador
- Author: Thursday, February 6th, 2014
Eight WKU faculty members have been selected to participate in the inaugural Zuheir Sofia Endowed International Faculty Seminar to Ecuador (ZSEIFS).
The ZSEIFS is an interdisciplinary faculty study program designed to enhance the overall objectives of the larger, campus-based initiative: the International Year Of… program. The International Year Of… program, set to kick off in the fall of 2014, is intended to provide the WKU campus and surrounding community with a rich, complex sense of place and interconnectedness through a yearlong celebration and emphasis on a single region/country. Ecuador is the first country to be celebrated.
Participants of the seminar will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge of Ecuador, enhance their teaching, research and service with Ecuadorian content and examples, and develop professional connections in Ecuador and with their fellow participants.
Faculty members selected are: Aaron Hughey, Student Affairs; Albert Meier, Biology; Beverly Holland, Nursing; Donielle Lovell, Sociology, WKU-Elizabethtown/Fort Knox; Jill Brown, Liberal Arts & Sciences; Kelly Conroy, Modern Languages; and Virginia Pfohl and William Pfohl, Psychology.
Participants will begin engaging with Ecuador long before they arrive in Quito on May 18. During the spring semester, participants will meet regularly, completing group readings and assignments on a range of topics centering on Ecuador. The direction of the seminar and the topics covered are established with the participants in mind.
During the 14 days in country, seminar participants will connect with other specialists and experts in their respective fields, participate in group lectures and site visits that build upon the pre-seminar readings and discussions.
The seminar will also develop participants professionally—with presentations and readings throughout the semester dedicated to the successful internationalization of teaching, research and program design.
While administered by the Office of International Programs, the ZSEIFS is a collaborative effort. Academic colleges and departments support faculty participants by sharing the cost of the program with OIP.
"One of the goals of the International Faculty Seminar is to prime the pump for the campus-wide International Year Of Ecuador," Craig T. Cobane, WKU's Chief International Officer, said. "The seminar will provide a core group of faculty an interdisciplinary international experience, that will lead to the infusion of Ecuadorian examples, modules and case studies into their courses. By providing this type of annual international professional development experience for WKU faculty, we facilitate the further internationalization of the curriculum, and thus, helping internationalize our campus and our students educational experience."
David Coffey in Agriculture and Melissa Stewart in Modern Languages will lead the program.
"We are fortunate that our inaugural international faculty seminar is being led by two seasoned faculty experts in the region," Dr. Cobane said.
Dr. Coffey said the participants play a substantial role in shaping the seminar.
"In their applications, they set goals for themselves and develop reading lists," he said. "The group readings and discussions as well as the in-country itinerary are influenced by the objectives of the participating faculty."
The Zuheir Sofia Endowment was created to facilitate the mission of the Office of International Programs, which endeavors to provide leadership in the development of a strong international profile. OIP, under the guidance of faculty leader Mike Stokes in Biology, is preparing for the international faculty seminar to South Africa in summer 2015. Applications for that seminar will be available this summer.
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The Comfort of Lies by Randy Susan Meyers
Published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Only five years ago, Tia was desperately in love with a man she was sure loved her back. When Nathan found out about her pregnancy, however, he left her, imploring her to get rid of the baby. Unable to bear aborting Nathan's child, but also unable to imagine herself as a competent mother, Tia settled on adoption. Now, when the latest set of pictures come in from her child's adoptive parents, Tia cannot help by think of Nathan, and the fact that he knows nothing about their daughter. On a whim, she decides to copy the pictures and send them to Nathan, where they intercepted by his wife, Juliette.
Juliette had, somewhat, forgiven Nathan when he confessed his affair, but learning that he has a daughter is more than she can handle. Desperate to see this little girl who is part Nathan, Juliette searches her out, and finds her adoptive mother, Caroline. Caroline is just as – or perhaps even more – damaged as Tia and Juliette; she is a deeply introverted person who glories in her research-based career. Interacting with a young child is simply not natural for Caroline, and although she loves her family, she worries that she is constantly failing as a wife and mother.
By opening with Tia announcing her pregnancy and Nathan immediately leaving her, Meyers makes her story immediately engaging, while also providing the perfect set up for the novel as a whole. Everything that happens in The Comfort of Lies stems from this very moment, and Tia's subsequent decisions to have her baby and give her up for adoption. I loved the way Meyers brings all three women together through one act of infidelity and one little girl. She does not pretend that things will be easy between these women, but writes interactions tinged both with real emotions and with grace.
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Helena Wankstein is a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and one of the girlfriends Carl Johnson can date.
Helena lives on a farm in Flint Range, Flint County and meets Carl Johnson beside the Ammu-Nation store in Blueberry, Red County shooting some targets on a deck (after mission The Green Sabre is completed). Well groomed, she is a lawyer by trade but is passionate about guns. She is normally home between 08:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 02:00. Helena demands Carl to have low muscle, low fat, and high sex appeal in order to date her.
As a matter of fact, since she only likes men with really low muscle, Carl may have to lose muscle that he might have gained if he wants to date her, as She seems to tolerate only up to 15-20% muscle. Losing muscle can only be achieved by the logical way of not feeding Carl for two or three days until he gets hungry, loses all his fat and then his muscle, or starving him. Physical activities during this two to three day period will make this process faster, especially swimming and diving.
Date Types
Food Date
Helena prefers to go to restaurants, the nearest one being the World of Coq restaurant in Rodeo, Los Santos. It is the only one in Los Santos.
Club Date
Carl can take Helena to either the club in Idlewood, Los Santos (Alhambra) or Queens, San Fierro (Gaydar Station), but the Alhambra remains a better solution since it's closer, despite both clubs being far away from Helena's house. To impress Helena with dancing, the player must score at least 4,000 points.
Driving Date
Helena prefers Carl to drive fairly slowly in rural areas (such as around her farm) or nice parts of town. Driving around her fields will suffice this type of date.
Helena will ask Carl in for coffee when their relationship gets to 70%.
The rewards for dating Helena include access to her tool shed, which includes a chainsaw, a flamethrower, Molotov Cocktails and a pistol. At 50% she gives Carl the keys to her Bandito, but even without having the keys, CJ can still steal it, since it has no doors, making her the only girlfriend to have, or own a car that is easily accessible to the player to begin with as opposed to being inaccessible until the required percentage in the relationship is gained. At 100% Carl gets the Rural Clothes, which are located in the special menu in the wardrobe. In her farm, there is also a Sadler that is unlocked for CJ at any time, thus making her the only girlfriend to have another vehicle that is always parked in front of her home regardless of whether she is at home or not.
- If the player stands in front of Helena when she is at the shooting range, she will keep shooting the player as if he was not there.
- If the player does not meet her standards when he arrives on her ranch for their date, she will refuse to go out with him.
- Strangely, Helena enjoys the countryside but complains that Rodeo is beneath her as "she went to a private school" "she can't stand trash like this", which is odd, as Rodeo is the location of wealthy clothing shops.
- Helena's surname is a wordplay on the phrase wank stain.
- She is the only girlfriend in the game that requires more than two statistic requirements; low muscle, low fat, and high sex appeal. The other girlfriends only require a maximum of two.
- She is the only girlfriend to have a car parked outside her location that is not locked to begin with until the player reaches the required percentage to unlock her car, as the Bandito has no doors. She is also the only girlfriend to have another car that regularly spawns in front of her house, in her case a Sadler.
- If the player attacks Helena in any way in the shooting range, she will start to shoot at him, aiming directly at him no matter where he is.
- The player can set a GSF member on Helena by targeting her and punching in her direction (without actually hitting her). Helena won't retaliate against the gang member's gunfire and will be Wasted.