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After two weeks of constant resume changing and reviewing companies' websites I finally made it to the internship fair. On a brisk Tuesday morning filled many snowflakes and suits the Internship Fair was upon us. My journey started with a tour by career services with ten other students that had various majors. Our tour encompassed the fair as a whole and the process of approaching companies and what to do to when following up with companies. As a marketing major here at NIU, I have two distinct fields to go into when graduating which are professional sales or interactive marketing. The sales side had always interested me and with over 40+ companies looking for a marketing majors (Sales or interactive) it was going to be a long day. Beforehand I consulted with a few students and a couple of alumni on tips to improve my resume. Some of things I accomplished when building my resume were to limit my work history to only relevant work history within in my major. Another great attribute I added was a skills section which shows employers my talents.
After my resume was complete I moved on to the initial research of the 40+ companies. This started out by focusing on my top companies that interested me. The 7 companies that stood out to me the most included Robert Bosch and Tool Corp, Liberty Mutual, Leapfrog Online, Graybar, True Value, Arthur L Gallagher and Co, and Anderson Pest Solutions. Things that stuck out to me between these seven companies were the quality of their internship programs and the ability to gain valuable experience that was relevant to my major. During the fair I employed a strategy used by some students where you start with a few companies you're not interested in first. This strategy gives the student practice and the ability to improve their pitch to the companies they're interested in. Across the fair I gained experience in my elevator speech as well as knowing my resume when talking to employers. Subsequently, I followed up with each employer with a thank you letter which included thanking them for their time, an attached resume and including a piece of information we talked about at the fair. To conclude, it was a great experience for my first time at the fair and I definitely recommend all majors and ages to attend as it's a great way to practice for interviews and to gain valuable experience in the real world.


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The Importance of Understanding Your Personal Energy Field.
With thanks to Lisa Warner, I am sharing this incredibly clear and insightful blog. We are all truly weaving a new matrix of energies when we support and inspire each other to keep going and to keep trusting our grandest self. WANTING more for our SELF is a wondrous key to unlocking our creative desires, where passion is born and our new selves receive ALl that was put into play for ourselves. Remember to have fun with it all, allow the edges to soften with wonder. Soon delight will flow in and your life will begin to shift in the direction that you have long ago chosen. Do not despair when the trail becomes faint, so too do echoes and yet it is and always was your voice.
AND now without further to do, I am Brenda's voice, happily sharing Lisa's ~
The Importance of Understanding Your Personal Energy Field
Your personal energy field is the field of electromagnetic energy that surrounds your body. It is not readily seen by the eyes, although there are many who are able to see auras and energy. However, because it is not readily seen or detected, it currently goes completely unnoticed by the majority of human Beings.
Why would it be important to become aware of your personal energy field?
The quality and integrity of your personal energy field (sometimes referred to as the aura) has a direct impact on the quality of your life and your health.
Let's explore some of the reasons why your energy field is of great significance.
Your auric field demarcates your personal space. Knowing the boundaries of your personal space allows you to differentiate between your space and other people's spaces.
Now, this might seem a little silly at first glance…because, well…I'm Me and You'reYou…isn't that obvious? Well…believe it or not…NO…it's NOT!
What most people don't realize is that We are non-physical Beings by nature, and that our bodies are simply the vehicles we are using to navigate within the physical realm. We are actually much larger than our bodies and our energy extends out into the non-physical areas beyond our bodies! Without a clear demarcation point of where Your energy ends and someone else's energy begins, it becomes easy to take on other people's energy (their 'stuff') without knowing it.
Learning how to distinguish between 'your stuff' and 'other people's stuff' is hugely beneficial!
You can think of it like this: if you lived in an apartment building, the outer walls of your apartment would separate your personal space from your neighbor's personal space. Without the walls, you would have no privacy…you and your neighbors would be constantly interacting…whether you liked it or not. This is why knowing where the edge of your aura is, is extremely beneficial: because you then have a very clear way to distinguish what energies are YOURS vs. what belongs to other people.
The clarity of your field determines the clarity of your thought and the vitality of your body. The field surrounding your body is electromagnetic, which means that it is comprised of a combination of electric and magnetic charges. Thoughts are electrical and emotions are magnetic. Your thoughts and emotions, therefore, have a direct correlation to the energy field that surrounds you.
Your magnetic field is prone to 'static buildup'…as evidenced by the occasional 'shock' you experience when touching something after having walked across a rug in stocking feet. Because thougts are electrical in nature, any static buildup in your field has a direct impact on the quality of your thoughts.
Do you know that 98% of your thoughts and are NOT actually YOURS?!?
You read that right!! The MAJORITY of the thoughts you think actually belong toother people!
When your energy field mingles with the collective energy field (which is all the time!), and you are unaware that your energy has now become part of the 'soup' around you, there is no way for you to distinguish between Your thoughts and the thoughts that are running through the 'soup' of collective consciousness around you. As humans, we mistakenly assume that simply because we think a thought, that that thought is ours. However, this is an incorrect assumption.
Learning to distinguish between your own thoughts and the thoughts of the collective consciousness is hugely beneficial! This is done through the cultivated awareness of your energy field.
Grounding your field directly impacts its clarity, strength and stability and clears your space of other people's thoughts and emotions. Because your field is prone to static buildup, knowing how to ground your field helps to 'draw off' the electromagnetic charges of other people's thoughts and emotions, which greatly enhances your own mental clarity and emotional stability.
The act of consciously grounding your field is one of the simplest, yet most empowering things you can do for yourself.
What happens inside the electromagnetic field determines what gets drawn to you from your surroundings. Your electromagnetic field is your point of creation. We are each creating our own realities, yet the majority of humanity has yet to become fully conscious of this fact.
This is relatively easy to see when you simply look: people who are naturally bright and happy attract lots of 'good' things into their lives, while people who are chronically angry or depressed continually attract lots of unpleasant situations into their lives. This is because the energy field is electromagnetic, which means that it acts like a magnet. You've heard the saying that like attracts like…well, this is what that means.
Learning how to consciously manage your energy field will allow you to consciously construct your field in such a way that you will draw to you the types of experiences you would like to have!
Distortions in your field, if not neutralized, eventually become distortions in your physical body. A 'distortion' is anything that is disharmonious or out of balance. Anger, depression, shame, blame, guilt and judgement are all examples ofdistortions.
Learning how to detect and subsequently clear your field of distortions is of tremendous value, because everything that is experienced as an imbalance in the physical body begins as an imbalance in the electromagnetic field surrounding the body. Once an imbalance is made manifest in the body, it must be neutralized in the energy field before it can be permanently neutralized from the body.
Learning how to consciously and deliberately manage your field allows you to consciously create your reality. The clarity and integrity of your electromagnetic field determines the quality of energies that it magnetically draws into itself. Therefore, if you are able to discern the quality of experiences you would like to have, and are able to consciously create those qualities within your electromagnetic field, then your field will automatically begin to draw to you those types of experiences.
Without conscious awareness of the function and operation of your electromagnetic field, life circumstances appear to show up 'randomly,' which gives the false impression that life 'just happens' and we must, therefore, react to it…which keeps us from realizing that we are the creators.
Because humanity has been unaware of their personal energy fields, the fields have lost their integrity and become intermingled with the energies of mass consciousness. The effect of this is the 'herd mentality'…whereby most humans simply go along with the program…believing that they are powerless to effect change, when, in fact…nothing could be further from the truth.
Change comes from within…literally from within the personal energy field. By becoming consciously aware of, and deliberately directing our energies within our personal energy fields, we can Consciously Create and attract to us the quality of experiences we desire.
What types of experiences do YOU desire?
©2014 Lisa Warner ConnectingYoutoYou.com
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Any seasoned fashion pro will tell you that for a designer to achieve sustained success, he needs to have a stamp on each collection that's all his own. Phillip Lim, the designer of 3.1 Phillip Lim, has been able to mix together modern silhouettes and flourishes in a way that lends itself to overall chic simplicity. How does he do it? If we knew that, we wouldn't need to covet his designs.
A true natural talent, Lim didn't consider a career as a clothing designer until he was unpacking a box of Katayone Adeli clothing while employed at Barneys. He loved her design style so much that he vied for an internship and won it. Just two weeks in, he found himself whisked off to work in Paris, all before he'd finished college. Though it wasn't until age 31 that Phillip's true path to fashion world stardom began.
As the story goes, he was sitting on his couch sipping a beer and watching Oprah in the middle of the day, jobless, when his friend Wen Zhou gave him a call. Zhou, a fabric supplier, resolved to fly Lim out to New York immediately and it was there they decided to form a business partnership and a line of clothing called 3.1 Phillip Lim. The 3.1 gives homage to their shared age at the time. This was in 2004. By 2005, Lim's designs were appearing on a smattering of actress ingenues, as well as being picked up by a number of suppliers. He won the CFDA award in 2007 and the rest is fashion darling history.
Lim continues to delight his loyal customers with looks that are utterly hip without being trendy. No grunge or downtown down-and-out "it" girl tributes here. Ladylike with a modern twist, sophisticated yet subtle but for one extra touch is Lim's style. And we're hoping he sticks with it. Check out our picks for some of his hits of recent seasons.


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As the recognized leader for special education professional standards, CEC develops standards, ethics and practices and guidelines to ensure that individuals with exceptionalities have access to well-prepared, career-oriented special educators.
Through the vision and dedication of more than 22,000 members, CEC sets the standard for high quality education for children and youth with exceptionalities. And, CEC is known as THE source for information, resources and professional development for special educators.
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You'll find professional development offerings to meet the needs of all special educators – including those of you who are time-crunched, cost-conscious or in need of CEUs in order to meet state obligations. Please join us and invite others to engage the potential!
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On December 1, 2008, the U.S. Department of Education published final regulations on selected provisions within the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) applicable to school aged children and youth that focus on: parental revocation of consent for special education services, representation by non-attorneys in due process hearings, and allocation of funds to school districts not serving students with disabilities.
In July, CEC issued a detailed response to the U.S. Department of Education outlining areas of agreement and disagreement within the proposed regulations. While CEC is pleased that the Department retained many of the CEC supported provisions in its final regulations, CEC remains concerned that many of the changes made are unnecessary at this time and will not provide any enhanced protections for children and their families that cold not be addressed under current Federal policy. In addition, these changes are costly and burdensome.
Parental Revocation of Consent for Special Education Services: The final IDEA regulations specify that a parent may revoke consent for special education and related services at any time and prohibits a public agency (school district) from using due process procedures (including mediation) to overturn a parent's revocation of consent. Furthermore, this regulations relieves the public agency of the responsibility to provide FAPE, conduct an IEP meeting or develop an IEP.
CEC opposed this regulation because it believes that a school district's responsibility to provide FAPE to an eligible child with a disability is central to IDEA. If a school district believes a child continues to need special education and related services, these regulations should permit the school district to pursue a due process hearing or mediation to attempt to override a parent's decision to revoke consent.
Additionally, CEC requested clarification in the following areas:
Representation by Non-Attorneys in Due Process Hearings: The final IDEA regulations would require States to determine the extent to which either party in a due process hearing would have the right to be represented by non-attorneys in accordance with State law. The Department acknowledged that IDEA is silent regarding the representational role of non-attorneys in IDEA due process hearings and that the issue of whether non-attorneys may "represent" parties to a due process hearing is a matter that is left, by law, to each State to decide.
CEC opposed this regulation because CEC is not aware of any data to suggest that silence in the current regulations is creating a problem for parents or public agencies and recommended that this issue be revisited during the next reauthorization of IDEA.
Allocation of Funds to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) that Are Not Serving Any Children with Disabilities: The final IDEA regulations would distribute Part B funds to local education agencies, including public charter schools that operate as LEAs, even if they are not currently serving any children with disabilities.
CEC strongly opposed this regulation because it will result in taking already limited Federal funds from LEAs and public charter schools that are currently serving children with disabilities and give it to LEAs and public charter schools that are not currently serving any children with disabilities.
Parental Consent: CEC supported the regulations which states that if a parent revokes consent for their child's receipt of special education and related services after the child has been receiving these services, the public agency is not required to amend the child's education records to remove any references to the child's receipt of special education because of the revocation of consent.
States' Sovereign Immunity and Positive Efforts to Employ and Advance Qualified Individuals with Disabilities: CEC supported the regulations which requires each recipient of assistance under IDEA Part B to make positive efforts to employ , and advance in employment, qualified individuals with disabilities in programs assisted under Part B.
State Monitoring, Technical Assistance, and Enforcement: CEC supported these regulatory changes because they are based on either IDEA 2004 statutory provisions or longstanding policy by the Department of Education.
Parental Consent: Clarifying the effect of a parent's revocation of consent on the context of his or her child's education record including a discussion of parental rights under the confidentiality of information requirements.
Timeframe for Public Reporting About LEA Performance: The timeline for a state's public reporting on the performance of LEAs was changed from 60 to 120 days from submission of annual performance report.
These regulations will require multiple changes to current state and LEA policies and procedures. These regulations take effect on December 31, 2008.
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One of the few videogames I've been looking forward to over the past few years. Originally they tried to get funding through Kickstarter and didn't meet their goal. Was really bummed about that even though there was no way I could have played the game at the time had it been funded... not that it ever stopped me from backing. Thankfully they found funding through other means. Visually it's probably one of the most creative games that has come along in a long time. Very reminiscent of Okami with the vibrant colors and mixture of more simplistic graphics with some amazingly beautiful scenery.
Other bonus? It's based off Mexican mythology of the Tarahumara culture. The creators passion for their heritage and wanting to share a part of that culture in such a format, which really comes through in the music for this game, hits you like a closed fist to the face.
If you have the means to try it out, give it a shot. Even if the gamepley isn't to your taste - the creatures and creativity are badass. Catch it on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows.
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Laughter in the Digital Age -- A Special Issue of Comedy Studies
*Please note the original posting mentioned a deadline of November 2015; the correct date in November 2014.*
"Laughter in the Digital Age"
Special Issue of Comedy Studies
Guest Editor: Peter C. Kunze, University of Texas at Austin
Websites, social media platform, and YouTube and other video-sharing services make the dissemination of comedy easier than ever, and studies of the implications of new media on comedy and humor is only beginning. This issue examines how the Internet as well as new technologies radically change how humor and comedy are produced, exhibited, and distributed in the digital age. I invite papers, broadly conceived, that consider these issues through either theoretical discussions or case studies of specific artists, texts, platforms, or sub-genres. Potential articles may cover:
• How comedians/comediennes or humorists use their personal websites or social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube)
• Programming that originates and is broadcast online: web series, webisodes
• Digital distribution
• Star studies of online personalities: bloggers, vloggers, tweeters, etc.
• Digital-specific genres, like blogging, vlogging, viral videos, Tweets, Buzzfeed listicles
• Audience studies
• Questions of representation, narrative, authorship online
• Media industry studies
• National/transnational humor
• Digital technologies—smart phones, digital cameras and camcorders, iPods, tablets
• Memes and meme culture
• Comedy and social media campaigns
• Comedy-focused websites: College Humor, Funny or Die, The Onion, etc.
The overall goal is to examine how digital technologies either democratize or restrict the creation and distribution of innovative comedy, examining key problems and possibilities posed by new media for the tradition of humor and comedy and its study.
Comedy Studies is published by Routledge. Papers must be between 5,000 and 6,000 words and adhere to Chicago Manual Style (16th ed.). Please submit to Pete Kunze at firstname.lastname@example.com by November 1, 2014. The issue will be published in Summer 2015, and worthy manuscripts not selected for the special issue may be eligible for future publication in general issues.
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disclaimer…it is incredibly unusually for me to post two days in a row. you might possibly get a handful of posts this week. please bear with my excitement, we will return to regularly scheduled programming (i.e. i'll pop in on occasion) soonish.
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Wine & Spirits optimizing and organizing is an ongoing constant process. Daily updates and adjustments are required. What works today does not always work tomorrow. Major search engines like Google regularly change their algorithms.
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THE last Indian immigrant ship, SS Sutlej, carrying 875 indentured men, women and children, entered Suva Harbour on 2 November, 1916. No one knew it then that Sutlej would be the last vessel ferrying human cargo to come to Fiji, the last of 87 which made the journey to the remote British colony in the Pacific. Four years later, on 1 January 1920, indenture system itself would be abolished.
This year, many former 'King Sugar' colonies such as Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname, Fiji and Mauritius, are commemorating the end of indentured emigration.
A group in Fiji is organising an international conference, with attendant celebrations, to mark the occasion. Indian indentured emigration was unique.
No other labour scheme of the 19th and 20th centuries matched it in scale, scope and spread. By the time the Sutlej made its journey, debate was raging about the future of girmit, the Indian word for indenture derived from the 'Agreement' under which the immigrants came to Fiji. Fiji played a prominent part in galvanising public opinion against the indenture system.
After the turn of the century, Fiji was among the colonies with the largest number of indentured labourers still on the plantations, with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company as the monopoly employer.
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THE SS Sutlej reached Suva Harbour on the evening of November 2, 1916, some 25 days after clearing the port of Madras. It had on board 875 Indian indentured immigrants, 297 of whom had boarded the ship at Calcutta on 2 October. The following day at 10:30 am, CSR barges ferried the immigrants to the Nukulau Depot where after mandatory medical inspection and immigration checks, the immigrants would be allocated to plantations across the country according to the orders for labour placed the previous year.
The ship had encountered rough weather early in its voyage, the Surgeon Superintendent reported, but it had escaped 'little serious sickness' that had blighted some of the earlier voyages, notably that of the The Journey of Girmit Escape from despair to build a land of opportunity Fultala in 1906 when an outbreak of cholera had claimed 61 lives. Mercifully, such tragic losses were rare.
The Sutlej was the last immigrant ship to bring indentured labourers to Fiji, the last of the 87 which, from 1879 onwards, had brought some 60,965 immigrants to the newly acquired British colony. The ships have such magical names: Rhone, Avon, Sangola, Danube, Elbe, Pericles and Leonidas.
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Coming back to Red Dragon this week in preparation for writing this piece, I discovered a much stronger book than I had remembered, a smart, engaging thriller with an undertone of melancholy that only seems to make its moments of tension and excitement more effective. It's also a more conventional work than I was expecting, or perhaps a more accurate way to put it would be that what was unconventional about Red Dragon when it was first published in 1981 is now commonplace. Harris focuses, in great detail, on the investigative and forensic procedures which enable the FBI to catch serial killers, and clearly takes a great deal of pleasure in showing off his research in these areas (he also seems to enjoy wowing readers with the space-age technology and resources at the FBI's fingertips: "Wired to a Gateway telephone, in minutes the Datafax was transmitting the employment roll simultaneously to the FBI identification section in Washington and the Missouri Department of Motor Vehicles." In minutes!). Nowadays, that's the stuff of every cut-rate procedural, so it's probably not surprising that, when given the reins of a franchise that has never quite managed to live up to the iconic status of its most famous character (some might say, that has been dragged down by that character's popularity) Bryan Fuller, TV's most idiosyncratic creator, has taken another path. His Hannibal draws its power less from the taut storytelling that makes Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs (and the films based on them) such a thrill, and more from visuals, and an atmosphere of dread and looming disaster. The result is one of the most intriguing and unusual television series of the last few years, but also one of its most frustrating. It's a series whose moments are frequently brilliant, but whose whole often feels empty.
Like a lot of prequels (the series begins some time before the events of Red Dragon), Hannibal draws its power from the irony of the audience knowing things that the characters don't, and like shows such as Smallville, or films such as X-Men: First Class, it roots that irony in a friendship between people who will one day become enemies--FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), the protagonist of Red Dragon, and cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen, in a performance whose reserve and undertone of dry bemusement put it in stark, clearly deliberate contrast to Anthony Hopkins's famously hammy turn in the role). The crucial difference here is that unlike Lex Luthor or Magneto, Hannibal has no illusions about who he is and what role he plays in the story. At the time the series starts, he has for several years been an active serial killer, dubbed the Chesapeake Ripper by the FBI. His friendship with Will, for whom he functions as a therapist and a sounding board while growing more involved with FBI investigations over the course of the season, is thus both a means to track and obfuscate the investigation of his own crimes, and an opportunity to indulge his psycopathic impulses. As they grow closer, Hannibal manipulates Will--who is described as suffering from an "empathy disorder" which allows him to get into anyone's head, including killers--undermining his sense of reality and of self, concealing the fact that he is suffering from a neurological illness, convincing him and his colleagues at the FBI that he's losing his mind, and framing him for several murders.
Despite telling a very different story, Hannibal draws heavily from Red Dragon (and, to a lesser extent, from The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal the book; for all I know the show also cribs elements from the fourth Lecter novel, Hannibal Rising, but I haven't read it), borrowing lines of dialogue, images, and even whole scenes, so that one wonders what the show will be left with when it does the Red Dragon story (Fuller has laid out a multi-season plan for the show in which Red Dragon will be covered in season 3). This can sometimes be awkward, as when Will, quoting directly from the book, says that he sees the Chesapeake Ripper as "one of those pitiful things that are born in hospitals from time to time. They feed it, and keep it warm, but they don't put it on the machines and it dies." It's an uncomfortable turn of phrase in the book, which is clearly of its time, but it's almost impossible to imagine someone in 2013 expressing themselves that way.
For the most part, however, Fuller's extensive drawing on his source material is playful, often deliberately contravening the expectations of viewers who are familiar with it. He recreates several iconic scenes from the books, but in a way that reverses their meaning. In one scene, a patient at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where Lecter will eventually be incarcerated, fakes a heart attack and attacks the nurse who tries to treat him. In the books, this is Lecter, as described by Dr. Chilton to Will Graham in Red Dragon the book, and to Clarice Starling in the film of The Silence of the Lambs, as a way of illustrating the danger posed by Lecter. In Hannibal, the patient is a murderer played by Eddie Izzard who has been manipulated by Chilton into believing that he is the Chesapeake Ripper--so the danger becomes, as it will be for Will, not the psychotic murderer but the seemingly benign psychiatrist offering to help. Another episode opens with Laurence Fishburne's Jack Crawford flashing back to a time when he recruited an FBI trainee, played by Anna Chlumsky, to help him pursue a killer, but the trainee isn't Starling but a new character called Miriam Lass, who preceded her. Her existence makes Crawford, and the quasi-paternal relationship he forges with Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, seem seedy, as if Starling were just the latest in a string of trainees that Crawford uses and discards--or has discarded for him, as Miriam stumbles onto Lecter (in exactly the way that Will describes in Red Dragon) and is killed by him.
Perhaps the most intriguing play on the Lecter canon in the series is the character of Hannibal's psychiatrist, the improbably named Bedelia du Maurier. Played by Gillian Anderson, whose most famous character was modeled on Jodie Foster's turn as Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, and who was widely discussed as a frontrunner for the role when Foster declined to reprise it in the film version of Hannibal, du Maurier is semi-retired after having been attacked by a patient referred to her by Hannibal. We don't learn the exact details of the attack in the first season, but du Maurier does tell Jack that the patient died during the attack when he swallowed his tongue, and later implies to Hannibal that there is more to how he died than she has told--swallowing his tongue being the way that Lecter persuaded a fellow prisoner who had insulted Starling to kill himself in The Silence of the Lambs. In one of the season's final scenes, Hannibal visits du Maurier in her home with a prepared dinner, which may or may not be the flesh of his most recent victim (one of the show's more interesting choices is that it rarely confirms whether Hannibal is feeding his guests human flesh or not). du Maurier's hesitation before she takes a bite--as well as the oblique hints she drops that she's aware of Hannibal's nocturnal activities--are a reminder that eating a cannibalistic meal prepared by Lecter is how Hannibal the book signals that Lecter has succeeded in breaking Starling down, stripping her of her pesky conscience, and making her the companion he desires. With that in mind, it's hard not to wonder if the season's end, in which Will is committed to the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane and visited by Hannibal, is less a Homeland-style downfall for the sake of a triumphant resurgence in the second season, and more an indication that in Fuller's upside down version of the story, the role of Dr. Lecter, psychopathic consultant to the FBI, will be played by Will Graham.
As fun as these riffs on the canon are, I can't help but wonder if Hannibal wouldn't have been better off without them, because veering into recreations of Harris's tight, purposeful plotting only throws into sharper relief the fact that Hannibal's own original plotting is nothing of the sort, often driven by a combination of coincidence and the characters' stupidity. The entire premise of the series is rooted in the coincidence that the psychiatrist referred to treat the FBI's top profiler (Hannibal gets the job because his former student Alana Bloom, a gender-swapped character from the books played by Caroline Dhavernas, refers Will to him) just happens to be the FBI's most wanted serial killer, and the first season only shakes out the way it does because Will just happens to develop a rare, virtually undetectable form of auto-immune encephalitis at precisely the same time (Will's health issues are quite obviously drawn from the experiences of New York Post journalist Susannah Cahalan, whose article on her experiences is terrifyingly informative but also drives home just what an unlikely confluence of events this is). As if that were not enough, Hannibal needs to throw random sociopaths into its characters' path just to make its season-long plot work--when Will insists that his symptoms could have a neurological origin, Hannibal, who has been trying to convince him that he is mentally ill, takes him to a neurologist friend who diagnoses Will's illness, and is then persuaded by Hannibal to conceal it so that they can "observe" Will's deterioration. And then there is the simple fact that Hannibal spends the entire season surrounded by FBI agents who have made it their life's mission to catch him, and never arouses even a hint of suspicion in any of them--even Will, who is defined by his intuitive powers of observation, only sees Hannibal for what he is when the plot needs him to, and no sooner.
Writing in The Vulture, reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz acknowledges the ridiculousness of the show's plotting, but suggests that to get hung up on it is to miss the point. Hannibal, he argues, proceeds with the logic of a dream, or rather a nightmare. The excesses of its one-off killers (almost all of whom arrange the bodies of their victims into grisly environmental art, and frequently consume parts of them in a seeming homage to the series's title character), the apparent indifference of the FBI to anything resembling proper investigative procedure, the failure of any of the characters to acknowledge just how absurdly and improbably weird their lives have become, these are all, Seitz argues, in service of the show's project to put its viewers in a certain, deranged headspace.
I can't think of a better example on TV of Roger Ebert's famous dictum that what matters isn't what a movie's about, but how it's about it. Simply by showing us things in a particular way, Hannibal communicates (subtly, almost imperceptibly at times) that it's dealing in metaphor, and that the only thing we're meant to take at face value are the feelings expressed by the show's characters, in much the same way that the only thing we take at face value when dreaming are the emotions we experience as we toss and turn in our sleep. That doorway, that pit, that castle, that naked body writhing beneath us: none are real. But the fear, lust, and curiosity we experience as we encounter them is as real as the air you're breathing now.To a certain degree, Seitz is obviously right, especially when he stresses Hannibal's execution of this effect. The show's plotting may be lackluster, but its visuals and atmospherics are some of the most stunning and effective that I have ever seen. They suggest, as I wrote about a very different show earlier this year, that television may be moving away from the primacy of plot, or even psychological realism, and dipping its toes into more experimental, less linear storytelling. Hannibal draws its visual power from carefully composed interiors--Hannibal's cavernous, book-lined office, Will's homey, slightly rustic house, full of DIY and fishing paraphernalia, Jack's neat office with its ugly institutional furniture--and by situating characters within them in what almost seem like tableaux--when Hannibal has sessions with his patients, or with Dr. du Maurier, the camera frequently catches them sitting opposite one another, perfectly still while they converse. It's a show that demands (and rewards) attention to detail, as the camera is focused on such seemingly impossibly wrought creations as Hannibal's dishes, or the grotesquely arranged bodies left behind by Hannibal and his fellow killers. (That demand for attention is auditory as much as it is visual; unlike most network shows, where characters repeat themselves and spell out their conclusions and motivations to keep the viewers up to speed, Hannibal's dialogue is opaque. Characters frequently make leaps in conversation that are rooted in professional knowledge or their own personal experience, leaving viewers who weren't listening carefully scrambling to catch up.)
From the season's first episodes, the show trades in dream imagery as well as its nightmarish reality. As Will's grasp on sanity deteriorates, these interludes--they quickly come to comprise hallucinations and waking dreams as well as sleeping ones--become more elaborate, and more difficult to distinguish from the show's reality. Recurring elements start to appear, and are left to the viewers to decode--who, for example, is the stag that Will keeps following in his dreams and hallucinations? By the season's end the show has, as Seitz argues, taken on the tone of a nightmare, with viewers never entirely certain about the narrative's solidity, always ready for yet another scene to devolve into horror and be revealed as a dream.
Where Seitz and I disagree is on the effectiveness of this approach. To me it eventually collapses under its own weight, and is undermined, rather than bolstered, by "the feelings expressed by the show's characters," whom I find less well-constructed than Seitz obviously does. Seitz classes Hannibal as a horror show (which is to say, a slightly different genre than Harris's books or the films based on them, which were mostly horror-tinged thrillers) whose power is in its affect. But unlike, say, American Horror Story, Hannibal doesn't reach for feelings of disgust or outrage at the grand guignol that its characters witness (and, sometimes, perform). Nor is the series's sense of horror achieved through the murders that Will investigates--which though initially grotesque quickly become too absurd to have any meaningful effect (by the end of the season, a killer of the week is digging decades' worth of murder victims up, chopping them up, and arranging their body parts on a totem pole)--or through our fear that Hannibal will kill the main characters--between the timeline laid out by the books and the series's relatively simple plotting, it's easy to guess which characters are safe for the time being and which are likely to be killed sooner rather than later (there are, incidentally, more women in the second group than the first).
The horror effect in Hannibal is achieved through tension--the tension of knowing what Hannibal is while the rest of the cast remains oblivious, the tension of watching our heroes wander trustingly into Hannibal's orbit like sheep playing with a wolf, the tension of watching Hannibal tighten the screw on Will's sanity one more notch as we wait to see whether Will will snap or finally realize what's being done to him, the tension we feel every time Hannibal serves a meal as we wonder what the characters are putting in their mouths. But humor is the mortal enemy of horror, and whenever Hannibal makes itself ridiculous--when Hannibal's ability to hide in plain sight is rooted not in his own cleverness but in the other characters' stupidity, or in a nonsensical turn of plot--that tension is dispelled, and the show's affect is nullified. Hannibal may not care about plot, but it needs plot to justify the emotions it asks us to feel on behalf of its endangered, clueless characters. Otherwise, the fact that these characters are endangered and clueless seems like nothing more than a consequence of their own stupidity, or worse, writerly fiat, and being asked to feel tension under those circumstances is like being asked to do the writers' work for them.
One of the surprises of Red Dragon is how little Lecter actually appears in it--only two scenes, and a few letters to Will--but nevertheless his one shared scene with Will has struck me, since I first read it more than fifteen years ago, as getting at the heart of the character in a way that none of the subsequent books or movies have managed to do, precisely because they're too enamored with him. Trying to goad Lecter into helping him with his current case, Will tells him that "I thought you might be curious to find out if you're smarter than the person I'm looking for."
"Then, by implication, you think you are smarter than I am, since you caught me."It is precisely that insanity, or indeed any sense of interiority, that is missing from Hannibal's depiction of the character, and that makes it impossible for me to accept Seitz's argument that the shortcomings of the show's plotting are acceptable because the characters remain real. Hannibal's Hannibal is not real. He's a collection of amusing, slightly exotic affectations, mannerisms and hobbies that amount to, as Dr. du Maurier puts it in her first appearance "a very well-tailored person suit." This would not be a problem given what Hannibal is, but what is a problem is the fact that throughout the show's first season the audience is never given a glimpse of what lies under that person suit (or, indeed, if there is anything under it). Even when we're privy to Hannibal's crimes, we never understand why he's committing them (or, for that matter, their purpose--at various points over the course of the season Hannibal appears to be trying to kill Will, kill Jack, drive one or the other of them crazy, frame them for murders, help them, or become their friend; it's finally most useful to conclude that he just does whatever seems most interesting at the moment). Unlike Dexter, Hannibal doesn't give us an inside track on what's going on its title character's head, a view on his humanity or his monstrousness. Given that almost every other character on the show is clueless and, in the case of Will, completely reactive--he doesn't work out what's being done to him until the season's final twenty minutes, at which point he quite accurately pronounces himself "self-aware"--the result is a little like what I imagine Dexter would be if its focus were solely on Deb and the other secondary characters as they wander around obliviously, unsure why their lives have become so weird and full of horror.
"No. I know I'm not smarter than you are.
"Then how did you catch me, Will?"
"You had disadvantages."
"What disadvantages?"
"Passion. And you're insane."
While this is obviously something the show could address in later seasons, I can't help but believe that the reason Hannibal doesn't let us see inside its title character's head is that it can't find a way to make what's going on in there look cool. This is, after all, a man who likes to kill people, chop them up, make meals out of their flesh and organs and serve them to his guests. You don't do something like that unless you really get off on it, and the image that Harris, the movies, and now the TV show have created of Lecter, as someone urbane and sophisticated who likes good food and just happens to murder people he finds rude, can't accommodate something so ugly and perverse. Like a lot of fans, I didn't care for Hannibal the novel, but looking back I can at least respect its attempt to give Lecter an origin story that stresses that something very bad had to have happened to him, and twisted him up in a truly horrible way, for him to do the things he does (though even then, it feels as if Harris wants us to feel sorry for Lecter--and thus to desire the ending in which Starling is destroyed so that she can become his keeper as well as his accomplice). Hannibal does not even hint at this sort of damage, and treats Lecter as an inhuman devil--which, again, given that he is the only character in the first season with agency, leaves the show emotionally hollow.
If Hannibal works despite the problems with its handling of its characters--despite suffering from the same problem as too many other Lecter adaptations, and eventually the books themselves, of not being quite sure who its main character is--it is because of its actors. Dancy and Mikkelsen's jobs are seemingly impossible, asked to portray, respectively, a man who loses himself in other people for a living and spends the season losing what little sense of self that occupation leaves him, and a monster hiding behind good manners and better suits. If Mikkelsen can't quite find the humanity (or the true, ugly monstrosity) in Hannibal, he at least leaves us perpetually guessing about where it lies--is Hannibal crying crocodile tears over Will at the end of the season, or does he feel genuine affection for him? Is his facade of detachment a true expression of his sociopathic nature, or does he feel genuine hate for Jack Crawford, and joy at his suffering?--in a way that promises that, if the series ever raises its game where the character is concerned, Mikkelsen will be able to take it there. Dancy, meanwhile, cuts a more heroic, more compelling figure that is perhaps less complicated than the show needs him to be (unlike Claire Danes's turn in a very similar story in Homeland, he doesn't manage to make Will offputting as well as heroic, though the writing isn't really there to support that--much like Red Dragon, Hannibal tries to but can't convincingly argue that Will carries a similar darkness to the murderers he hunts). But the vulnerability he brings to the role is heartbreaking, especially when Hannibal begins to take advantage of it, and makes it all the more heartening when Will finally discovers his core of self at the end of the season and manages to resist Hannibal's manipulation. (Fishburne, meanwhile, is excellent in a role that is arguably the most successfully constructed and morally complex in the season, while Dhavernas is sadly wasted as a character who should have been the show's moral center but ends up being shunted into Will's romantic orbit too often.)
If there's a conclusion that I come to after watching the first season of Hannibal, it's that perhaps creators (and I include Thomas Harris in this group) shouldn't take a crack at Hannibal Lecter until they understand what he is and what kind of story they want to tell about him. Is he a monster? Then make him your villain, or commit to the fact that you are telling a story about a monster (something that could have been very interesting, especially in light of Dexter's increasing unwillingness to face up to that fact in its most recent seasons). Is he a damaged man? Then show that damage, and be willing to acknowledge how ugly and unappealing it should be. Going by the first season they've produced, Bryan Fuller and his writers don't know the answer to this question, which is why Hannibal often feels as if it has no center, and as if it amounts to little more than its horrific, nightmarish affect. That doesn't mean that there isn't anything here to watch for--the visuals are stunning, the actors breathe life into the characters no matter how flawed their construction, and that affect is impeccably achieved even if, to my mind, it often falters. But the result is that I enjoy Hannibal while I'm watching it and then feel as if there was no substance to it when the episode or season have wrapped up. It's a rich meal, but it leaves you feeling curiously unsated.


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Purchase orders will be mailed unless the Purchasing Office is instructed otherwise. In the event that a department would like an order faxed or phoned in, that is the responsibility of the department. The department will be contacted when the purchase order has been issued and can pick it up, then phone or fax.
Contact Fiscal Affairs for guidance before proceeding with any purchases. Do not presume that your actions will be approved after the fact. Exceptions will be worked out between Fiscal Affairs, Purchasing, and the user department as circumstances and good business practices warrant.
Please remember that the Purchasing function at Marywood is a cooperative undertaking between the Purchasing Office, the vendor, and the user department. In most cases, department heads suggest a vendor when a purchase requisition is submitted to the Purchasing Office. It is presumed that the suggested vendor is selected by a department head after he/she has contacted several vendors and has reviewed the established purchasing criteria, namely, price, quality, service, shipping costs, availability, the lease/buy option if applicable, necessity, and other considerations that may be appropriate (see Appendix H—General Purchasing Considerations for detailed information regarding these matters). In some cases written documentation of bids, price comparisons, number and names of vendors contacted, etc. may be required with a purchase requisition, though in most cases this documentation can remain in departmental files.
How often are Accounts Payable checks issued?
Effective immediately the Accounts Payable Department will issue checks twice a week—Tuesday and Thursday. Checks are issued late afternoon and are available for pick-up at the Cashiers' window the following day. Ordinarily, it can take a week to 10 days for a check to be issued after we receive the paperwork. If a check is needed as soon as possible, the requisition must be hand-delivered to the Accounts Payable Specialist with a verbal request for the check to be issued ASAP. At that time the requester will be informed of when the check can be issued. Just marking "rush" or "needed by a date" is not sufficient for rush processing.


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Unaware She Was Pregnant, Woman Delivers 10-Pound Baby
A woman who said she didn't know she was pregnant arrived at the hospital and delivered a 10-pound baby girl hours later, a Michigan newspaper reported.
Linda Ackley, 44, said she thought she had a hernia. She'd been told she couldn't bear children.
"She is our miracle baby," the stunned new mother, who gave birth on Feb. 8 by emergency C-section, told the Jackson Citizen Patriot. The couple named the little girl Kimberly Kay.
Her husband, Mike, got the news over the telephone.
"Some people have nine months to prepare. I had [15] hours," he said. "I wish someone would have taken a picture of my face."
Surprise births occur regularly, an OB-GYN in Cleveland told ABCNews.com.
"It happens more than you would think," said Dr. Kimberly Gecsi, who works at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.
"Every time it does there's always the, 'How could they not have known? It seems crazy.'"
Gecsi gets two or three cases of this type on average every year, she said. It occurs mostly among young women, who she said are in denial.
"Teenagers will until the day they die say I don't have sex, so it just doesn't occur to people," she said.
But sometimes even doctors miss the seemingly obvious.
"I've had patients sent to me by family practitioners convinced the patient had cancer," Gecsi said.
Though babies born to unprepared mothers are often born healthy - as the Michigan baby was last week - missed prenatal care isn't a good thing, said Dr. Jennifer Ashton, a senior medical contributor for ABC News who has a private OB-GYN in New Jersey.
Her advice to women of child-bearing age: "Be familiar with your own body and pay attention to the way in which it talks to you. Prenatal care is really important for not just the baby but the mother also," said Ashton, an OB-GYN at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
Last Friday morning, Linda Ackley arrived at the hospital, Allegiance Health, for a CT scan to check the supposed hernia. She said she had a "bloated abdomen" a week earlier.
An initial scan revealed she was pregnant. Doctors told Ackley she would deliver in three to four weeks. But a second scan taken soon after showed that she had carried the baby to full term, 40 weeks.
So hospital staff wheeled Ackley in for an emergency delivery. The baby was born Friday night.
The surprise birth follows a medical scare in 2011 for the Ackleys, high school sweethearts who had been married for 24 years. Linda Ackley contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a bacterial infection that attacks soft tissue. After spending a week in a coma, doctors had to remove some of her stomach muscles.
She had been told she might not live. Now looking back, she views the illness in a new light.
"God wanted me here for something," she said.


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The man who brought beer to Palestine
As we hurtle along the winding roads that hug the steep hills of the West Bank towards Palestine's Taybeh Brewery, taxi driver Khaled swerves around children, cattle and trucks with one hand and illustrates a frantic monologue with the other.
"In most countries, there is a pot of honey and the leaders have a little taste and then give the rest to the people, but here in Palestine it is the other way round," he shouts, as the car bounces violently over a pothole.
"They give us a little taste and then they eat the whole jar."
I nod and smile as he offers me another cigarette and ploughs on towards our destination, the tiny village of Taybeh, still half an hour away.
"Aha! And now here are our Israeli cousins!" he suddenly shouts, laughing as an Israeli military base appears to our left, heavy guns and barbed wire atop the concrete barriers.
The bored soldiers hardly look up as we speed past, Khaled waving and smiling –- ironically, I sense –- with a cigarette lodged between his fingers.
Travel in Palestine is always intense, usually due to highly charged political conversations, ubiquitous military checkpoints or Israeli soldiers waving assault rifles. But the intensity of the hills and mountains that cascade down into the Jordan Valley are another thing entirely.
Here, tiny villages and mosque spires punctuate a rolling, olive-green landscape and in the spring or autumn clear air, cool breezes and blue skies are reminiscent of the best days of an English summer.
Lodged firmly amid this landscape is Taybeh, some 12 kilometers away from Ramallah in the hills north of Jericho, and a village once famous for hosting Jesus and his disciples for a few days before he returned to Jerusalem.
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From Boston to the West Bank
Nowadays, Taybeh is far better known for Taybeh Brewery and its founder Nadim Khoury, who is credited with bringing beer to Palestine.
Nadim studied beer making in Boston in his teens and, inspired by American beers such as Sam Adams, moved back to Palestine to set up Taybeh after the 1994 Oslo Accords.
Since 2005, Taybeh has welcomed hundreds of foreign and Palestinian beer aficionados to the village for its annual Oktoberfest.
Taybeh beer is served throughout Israel and the Christian cities of the West Bank -– as well as Japan, Sweden, Germany and Belgium.
As the village appears, Khaled gets lost. But luckily the villagers are used to seeing taxi drivers and nervous-looking foreign passengers trawling around looking for the brewery.
A couple of u-turns, a gravel track and a huge steel gate later and we pull up outside the main building, where a vast opening gives way to huge steel drums, a production line and an overwhelming smell of hops.
With his bushy moustache and modest beer belly, Nadim Khoury looks like a brewer.
He rises from a cluttered desk just inside the entrance and shakes my hand with a disarming smile.
As I sit down on a tattered couch opposite a glass cabinet of Taybeh merchandise, workers chat over the hum of the machines, bottles clink in the background and Nadim walks to the fridge and brings back two bottles of cold beer.
He opens one and hands it to me as I begin to introduce myself and ask him about Taybeh, but I notice that he isn't listening. He's just looking at my open beer, and then at me, expectantly.
I pick it up and take a swig.
"And what do you think?" he says, immediately.
"It's delicious," I say.
Nadim smiles, his top lip disappearing into his moustache, and relaxes in his chair.
"You know, Taybeh actually means 'delicious,'" he says, pushing a plate of snacks toward me across the coffee table.
"Now try it with the snacks," he says.
I do. It's still delicious.
'We still don't have a country, but we have a beer'
It sounds too good to be true, but Taybeh –- or its root, Tayeb –- actually can mean delicious in Arabic, but is more commonly understood to mean "good" or "pleasant."
One legend has it that the legendary warrior Saladin, who once controlled much of the region, named it Taybeh because the he thought the people who lived there were so good-looking –- although it's more likely that its location, on the top of a picturesque hill, was a pleasant site for a village.
"This is a peaceful resistance actually," Nadim says, after a momentary silence, and looks at me as I raise my eyebrows.
"No, it is. Making beer and making business and being here. We still don't have a country, but we have a beer, and I'm proud of that."
Nadim produces three beers –- a lager, dark ale and an amber –- is building a hotel and looking to move into producing wine in the village.
"There are 17 types of grapes in Palestine and nobody has ever analyzed them, so for the past four or five years I have been experimenting in my basement," Nadim says.
"When tourists come here they will soon be able to enjoy both beer and wine, and they can stay in a nice hotel."
A tour bus arrives, and Nadim rises to meet a gaggle of American tourists that have been bussed in from Jerusalem, one of some 60 or so trips Taybeh Brewery receives every year.
Often the tour groups are religious pilgrims, stopping off on their way back from visiting religious sites at Hebron or Jericho, but increasingly backpackers and solo travelers make a liquid pilgrimage to Taybeh.
Before we say our goodbyes, I ask Nadim about the stigma attached to Palestine, particularly by tourists who have grown up with news reports of violence and unrest in the West Bank.
"Well, we need to change that," he says. "Some day it will happen. Maybe someday we can toast peace with Taybeh beer."
On the way back to Jerusalem the driver blares Arabic pop as the wind rushes through the open windows.
The sun is going down over the mountains, which will soon give way to the burning skips, congestion and filth of the Qalandia checkpoint; the tension of Jerusalem, its bloody history and disputed sites.
I think of Taybeh and its meaning and I think Saladin, warrior par excellence though he was, undersold it.
Brewery tours
Taybeh Brewery is open Monday to Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tours are free and last approximately 30 minutes, which includes a seven-minute video of the brewing process and short history of the company.
Visitors are given a free Taybeh beer sample, then a guided tour inside the brewery.
After the tour, all visitors will have the chance for a Q&A discussion and can hit the gift desk for souvenirs and beer.
How to find it: Taybeh Brewing Company, Taybeh Road 1, Taybeh, Ramallah District; +972 (0)2 289 8868; Taybehbeer.com. Taybeh village is just outside Ramallah, 20 kilometers from Jerusalem.


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Proponents and opponents of biotechnology may have more in common than meets the eye, according to Owusu Bandele, an organic farmer and a professor at the College of Agriculture, Family and Consumer Sciences, at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. Both groups, he says, tend to share ideas only with those who believe as they do, and often fail to appreciate other points of view.
Bandele, who spoke recently at the joint meeting of the Louisiana Plant Protection Association and the Louisiana Association of Agronomists, admits that his cynical view of genetic engineering is different from most people in the agricultural industry. However, he says, "That doesn't mean we can't use the opportunity to learn from each other."
It has been his experience, he says, that there are often obstacles involving open dialogue between the two opposing viewpoints when it comes to genetic engineering, and biotechnology in general. "Many of us, including myself, often find ourselves in the company of those who share our own ideas and we are, in essence, preaching to the choir," Bandele says.
"Sometimes, we're so caught up in our own point of view that we fail to recognize even any truth in some of the criticisms that are stated," he says. "There are different ways of looking at the same information, and this lack of appreciation is even worse when there is name-calling involved. A lot of times when scientists who are pro-genetic engineering discuss the opposition, so to speak, they refer to them using terms like 'radical environmentalists,' regardless of the nature of their criticism. This name-calling cuts off any type of real discussion."
Communication between those on both sides of the issue is imperative, Bandele says, because as the adoption of biotech crops increases, so to do the concerns by those who question the safety of the science behind the technology.
Biotechnology, in its broadest sense, is the application of biological sciences for uses by people. However, many of those people voicing their opinions both for and against biotechnology equate it with genetic engineering.
"Is genetic engineering an extension of traditional breeding? Most proponents will tell you that it is. However, many critics think that genetic engineering is really in direct opposition to traditional breeding in that it enables crosses to be made that would never occur in nature," he says.
In spite of his concerns, Bandele is cognizant of the reported benefits of genetic engineered crops. These benefits, he says, include an increased tolerance to unfavorable climactic conditions and insects, an increased plant nutrient status, increased production efficiency, and the potential health benefits to humans through the use of animals as sources of drugs or organs.
On the other side of the coin, those opposing the use of biotechnology fear, among other things, the possibility of creating altered life forms, the inadvertent production of new allergens or toxins, and the ability to transfer genetic traits without affecting other characteristic traits. Opponents of biotechnology are also concerned about antibody-resistant marker genes leading to antibody resistance, the possibility that the use of genetic engineering could reduce animal and plant diversity because of similarities in genetic makeup, and the further monopolization of global food supplies due to the worldwide use of transgenic crops.
More specifically, those vocal in their opposition to glyphosate-tolerant crop varieties believe the technology will result in an increased use of herbicides, the production of 'super weeds,' cross-contamination of conventional crops, and increased pesticide residues.
Similarly, opponents of Bt crops believe the opportunity is there to harm non-target organisms and insects and develop resistance to Bt with transgenic crops. Ironically, many organic farmers use Bt formulations for insect control.
"Any new technology is likely to produce both proponents and critics," Bandele says. "It's not always a cut-and-dry situation, and the scientific basis for safety decisions are not always as extensive as are needed.
Questioning whether the "good science" yet exists for genetic engineering, he says, "There are scientists who believe that unfortunately right now we lack the necessary data to predict the consequences of widespread planting of transgenic crops, largely because the technology itself is so new. In addition, the people who deal with the safety of these crops are often also the people who manufacture them, so there is a possible conflict of interest problem there."
In the final analysis, the public should determine the fate of genetic engineering in agriculture, Bandele says. "These decisions should be based on the gathering and assessing of pertinent information. That's not to say that even the majority of transgenic crops are unsafe, but the public should decide. And, market demands for non-genetically modified products should be respected, regardless of the reasons for that demand, and regardless of whether or not it's founded in science.
"There may be some unscientific reasons why people prefer one type of crop to another," he says.
"There's no scientific reasoning for the fact that some people prefer a Toyota over a Ford for example, but we respect their right to choose. Shouldn't we take advantage of those niches in agriculture as well?"
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Allowing women to anonymously deliver their babies in a hospital was associated with a drop in the number of newborns killed by their mothers, according to a new study.
That suggests that the laws are correctly targeted at the problem, say researchers.
"We assume the law gives women who are desperate, who deny their pregnancy, who become aware of the pregnancy too late or experience denial in the first two trimesters a chance to get out of the situation," Claudia Klier, an author of the study, told Reuters Health. "This gives them a solution."
Austrian police statistics showed a 57 percent drop in neonaticides, to 3.1 per 100,000 births, after that country adopted in 2001 a law permitting anonymous - and free - hospital delivery. Over the same period, neonaticide rates held steady in Finland and Sweden, which didn't have such a law.
The study appears in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The findings suggest that the laws, which also exist in some European countries including France, Luxembourg and Italy, may play a role in reducing neonaticide, defined as the homicide of an infant by its mother within 24 hours of delivery. The study can't prove the Austrian law caused the drop, however, since it was based on observations after the fact.
Still, the authors said they could identify no other "socioeconomic or policy changes in Austria that could be associated with the observed decrease, such as the passage of abortion laws or changes regarding childbirth benefits."
A host of factors are linked to neonaticide, including denial of the pregnancy and a history of trauma and troubled relationships, according to the study. Research previously conducted in France suggested that women who would abandon their babies in a hospital think about harming the child while pregnant, said Klier, an associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Medical University of Vienna.
Other methods for reducing neonaticide include "baby hatches," incubators placed outside hospitals that alert hospital workers when someone leaves a baby inside. In the U.S., the chief strategy has been so-called safe haven laws, which allow parents to easily surrender their babies at locations such as police stations and hospitals. There are limited data to support safe haven laws, according to the researchers.
Klier said an estimated 30 to 40 women take advantage of the anonymous birth law in Austria each year, compared to two to three who use the baby hatches.
Austrian neonaticide rates were higher to begin with, at 7.2 per 100,000 births, than in Finland and Sweden, at 1.6 and 1.8 respectively. Rates in those two countries were little changed over the study period.
The study results were "wonderful," said Susan Hatters Friedman, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry and pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, who has studied neonaticide.
The crime is "really underestimated," making the police statistics only the "tip of the iceberg," she said. "If a woman can hide the pregnancy, she can hide the body."
The study authors emphasized the need for greater awareness of the laws. Austria no longer has an active publicity campaign following concerns that women might use anonymous delivery as a substitute for regular adoption procedures, Klier said.
"We cannot catch all" of the would-be neonaticides, but "the number could be reduced further," she said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/Vy55KD BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, online December 5, 2012.


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Im currently pursuing a Btech Degree in Computer science (finished my 2nd year).
i want to work as a programmer/developer in the future.
i have a decent knowledge about Java .
so my question is what should i do after my Btech? do i need to go for a masters degree? or i start looking for a job
what other courses can i do to boost my CV as a programmer?
and should i apply for a java certification while im doing my btech(does it really matter?)
any advice would be appreciated


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